DEW ART & PET SUPPLY LLC
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA

What does creativity have to do with health, healing and well-being? Studies show that engaging in any creative process is healing. Whether you make a simple drawing or collage, look at art or talk about it, creativity and the arts can help you: The Healing Arts Program's art therapist works with adult oncology patients, offering them a variety of creative activities while they're receiving chemotherapy treatment. Projects include making crafts, drawing, painting and collage, and can involve family members. The art therapist also works with patients at the bedside, using creative engagement as part of a therapeutic approach to help them relax, lower anxiety and pain and share feelings and thoughts. This excerpt provides an example of a patient's experience with a session and how it helped her: Many hospitals and care facilities offer art therapy. You also may wish to seek out a licensed or board-certified art therapist in your community to help you explore and process what you're experiencing. Is there a creative skill you've always wanted to learn? This could be painting with watercolors, shaping sculptures, building furniture, quilting or making mosaics. Is there a class near you? There are also many tutorials online that you can follow. Click this text to start editing. You may want to describe your business or organization and talk about what you do and why you do it. Replace images by simply double clicking on them.