McNiff, Shaun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1992
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Summary: "Transform your life, process your emotions, and find joy in Sheila Darcey's Sketch by Sketch During a difficult time in her life, author Sheila Darcey found that the act of sketching and freestyle drawing-of giving a physical form to her thoughts, emotions and ideas-was an impactful way to process what she was feeling. One simple sketch became a daily practice and developed into a meditative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 DARBuividavice, Inga
Summary: "Find inner calm and happiness in this beautiful, meditative and earthy watercolour instruction book from nature lover, teacher and artist Inga Buividavice. Art therapy and the act of painting is widely acknowledged to bring positive mental health benefits, as it helps us centre ourselves, focus our intentions and engage creatively with the world around us. This beautiful guided watercolour...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leaping Hare Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.42 BUIMcGlothlin, Kristin
Summary: "Catalynd Jewett Hamilton has always lived a peaceful life with her family on their old farmstead at the top of Sourland Mountain in New Jersey. But after she and her mother get in a bad car accident, Cat ends up in a wheelchair with two broken legs and her mom begins to suffer from depression. With her older brother leaving for college, Cat has to take charge and guide her family back to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bird Upstairs Books 2021
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Summary: Introduces a technique for practicing mindfulness and achieving increased mental clarity through observing works of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 ANDSummary: A collection of artfully decorated postcards with secrets anonymously written on them by people from all over the world and sent to the founder of PostSecret, a community art project that evolved into a website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc WarrenLeavitt, Sarah
Summary: "In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of grief and loss. The comics started as small sketches but quickly transformed into something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 LEAVITT, SARAH LEASummary: Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But then 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home to confront his pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CATGanim, Barbara.
Summary: In this remarkable testament to the power of creativity, Barbara Ganim shows step-by-step how to use art to heal body, mind, and spirit. By using guided meditation and artistic techniques, you can gain insight and clarity into depression, anxiety, rage, and even illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, and AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.8 GANCzerwiec, MK (MaryKay)
Summary: "A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 CZEMalchiodi, Cathy A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brunner/Mazel 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 MALAbaci, Peter.
Summary: Pairs traditional medicine with unconventional treatments such as tai chi, art therapy, diet, and yoga. Groundbreaking information about how functional MRIs can now measure pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPP Life 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.0472 ABAGraham, Heather.
Summary: A psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, Chloe Marin, the survivor of a brutal attack ten years earlier, encounters the killer from her past while investigating the disappearance of a young swimsuit model.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GRASummary: Art has been used over the centuries to help people accept a medical condition they cannot change or to provide a spiritual lift during difficult times. But, increasingly, the arts are being used in a scientifically ordered manner to improve health in specific ways. Studies have shown that arts therapy can reduce pain, improve the health of pre-term babies, decrease the severity of headaches,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: No one is ever prepared for a child's death or able to accept it with equanimity, but there are ways to live through this intensely sad experience. This program from The Doctor Is In introduces some people who have felt this pain, and who can offer some suggestions for going through the process. A couple whose three-year-old daughter died suddenly, a teenage girl whose sister died from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Albert, Lee (Lee Michael)
Summary: Proven, practical, easy-to-follow program to reduce and even eliminate chronic muscular pain through simple movements and home care. Demonstrates how Integrated Positional Therapy (IPT) effectively treats pain patterns caused by injury, stress, repetitive strain, postural distortion and chronic neuromuscular conditions. Includes specific wellness plans for: headache, neck and shoulder pain, low...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dudley Court Press 2018