Green Owl Art Therapy

💚Happy Autism awareness day!! Stay awesome! 💚

💚Happy International Women's Day! Let's take a moment to appreciate the strength and awesomeness of the women we live, work and spend time with. It is also a time to reflect on the inequalities, discrimination and violence that women suffer due to their gender and to keep fighting to eliminate it! 💚

(Beautiful inclusive Illustration by Laura Callaghan)

💚This lovely video from BAAT - The British Association of Art Therapists says it all so beautifully 💚

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💚 As it's ADHD awareness month, I decided to be vulnerable but authentic and share my story! (Please be kind!🫣)

A couple of months back I was assessed and had my ADHD confirmed. It's been a journey of emotional ups and downs and realisations about my life, I'm not gonna lie! 😅 I think from a positive point of view, it's made me appreciate my achievements more, because I had an extra layer of struggle that no one saw! 💪🏻 I wouldn't change it, as it makes me who I am and I have decided to embrace it and be authentic with it personally and professionally (while still figuring out what is me and what is "mask"🥸!).

So I have been busy and working on some exciting projects for Green Owl (which I will tell you more about soon!🤫✨) but one of the busyings I am doing is a diploma in ADHD coaching, so I can utilise my 18 years working in the field of mental health (11 years as an Art Psychotherapist) and my 43 years lived experience to help other people with their ADHD journeys in a creative and robust way 🥰.

If you got this far, thank you for reading and allowing me to be vulnerable and real, as I accept (and learn to celebrate) my neurosparkly-ness 💚

💚The last session of GO Create Confidence course for teens today! We looked at compassion and why it's hard to be compassionate to ourselves, we explored some techniques on how to reframe negative self-talk and did a half and half image; an image of the struggles we have with our inner critic and a compassionate response image.

I will be running some more themed groups for adults soon, so watch this space! 💚

💚 Today at the GO Art Therapy Create Confidence group today we learnt about polyvagal theory, how it relates to emotions and different ways to understand and regulate the nervous system and emotions. We did somatic drawing and creative reflection on the group members own emotional responses. Next week is the last session from this course and it's about developing self compassion and combatting the internal critic! If you or a young person you know would like to come, it is Thursday 28th from 1:30-3pm. email [email protected] for more details 💚

💚Today in GO Art Therapy's Create Confidence course for teens, we looked at making positive connections, healthy and unhealthy relationships, consent and boundaries, reflecting on what that meant to us as individuals, finishing with an image board of a healthy & safe relationship. ✨

Next week's session is on emotional regulation and how to cope with emotions in a safe way, without repressing them! If you or someone you know is between 12-18 and would like to to know more, email [email protected] for details! 💚

💚Last week's session on developing the sense of self was great fun! We talked about aspects of identity, the inside and outside self and did some unique self-portraits! This Thursday, we will be looking at making meaningful and safe connections with people and our attachments! There are some spaces for this week, so email [email protected] if you want to know more! 💚

💚Last chance to register for tonight's managing anger group! So if you're feeling tense, irritable or angry and you'd like to release it in a creative and safe way email [email protected] and come along! Non-judgemental, affirming environment and no art skills needed! 💚