So This is Expressive Arts Therapy

When a friend asks to meet up after a crazy week, and all I want to do is watch Netflix and talk to no one.

Waking up for work in the winter, blehhhh. Can’t we hibernate like bears?

"Because now, for me, therapy is not about 'getting better,' but rather tackling what I experience every day. What’s more, through therapy, things I can handle just adequately on my own, I can handle better with help. It’s a recalibration of my mind, self-maintenance of my heart. It’s changing the water in a vase of flowers, nipping the buds that refuse to bloom, trimming what’s gone to wilt, even as winter creeps in. And it’s just nice — justly nice and nicely just — to feel like self-care is a healthy indulgence."

Sometimes we therapists care too darn much. But is that a bad thing?

When I find an awesome intervention on Pinterest

How much work I do compared to my salary.

After paint won't come out of yet another work shirt.

When looking at a school, definitely express your interest in both modalities. Ask how the school could best support you on your career path. Some schools house multiple modalities in one school and allow you to take elective classes in other modalities and general classes with students of all modalities. Other schools separate the modalities in their programs (ie: an art therapy student may never share a class with a music or drama therapy student).