dreaming • feeling • making • being | artist • guide • therapist • educator | founder of the Psychedelic Arts Society
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I took my first art class as a teenager in high school. I loved it. Learning to draw was like being given a key to another world. I could take the blank page and make something that didn’t exist before. 🤍
Exploring the multi-directional relationship between altered states and creative practice → psychedelicarts.org/
Psychedelic Arts Society
A global community for artists, arts adjacent practitioners, and supporters of the arts exploring the multi-directional relationship between altered states and creative practice.
psychedelicarts.org/
The more sophisticated AI image generation gets, the more I want to spend time drawing and sketching.
I like to make direct contact with the world. To see things with my own eyes and create something with my bare hands.
I built a course around this desire.
Experimental Drawing. Starts 8 September.
francescasciandra.com/experi…
Francesca Sciandra retweeted
Truth is, many patients do not come to therapy to change. Not really.
They may say and think they want to change. It soon becomes evident that they want to continue being exactly the person they have been, and living life in the same self-limiting ways, but feel better doing it.
Real psychotherapy begins with helping the person to not only understand but truly take to heart that what they want is impossible.
In other words, the real work of therapy may begin with crushing disappointment, as the patient struggles to reconcile with the painful truth that neither the therapist nor anyone else has the power to give them what they want.
To feel different, they must become different—and there is no bypass around the psychological work. Paradoxically, it is this terrible disappointment that opens the door to realistic hope.
Sadly, for every therapist who understands this and is prepared to join the patient in doing the difficult work, there are many more “therapists” happy to foster the patient’s illusion that they can feel different without becoming different, and therapy can work by magic.
Choose wisely.
‘Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.’
— D.W. Winnicott 🫀✨
‘Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.’
— Harry Stack Sullivan 🌿🌾🍃
Source: Donald Woods Winnicott (1965). The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. London: Karnac Books, p.187.
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‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Today we have abundant opportunities to utilize our strengths and passions, do things we enjoy, and connect with people we love.’
— Carl R Rogers 🛵🍃
🌟 How To Overcome Anxiety: A 3-Part Approach 🌟
If you’re struggling with anxiety, you’re certainly not alone — anxiety is a harsh reality for millions of people around the world.
You don’t have to accept it as a way of life.
francescasciandra.com/blog/h…
