Connect with Creativity

Lesley Coombes
Written by Lesley Coombes

Are you struggling to find the words to express how you really feel?

Have you lost yourself?

How do you channel built up emotions?

Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapies is a journey that enables you to combine wellbeing with creative arts. We all have an innate creative ability, but because we are taught that we should become experts, we lose sight of how to explore, express, create, and simply enjoy the depths we can find ourselves revelling in when creating sound, moving to music, and painting without worrying about the end result.

Creativity is a historic form of communication, from cave men scribing images on walls to dances representing people’s cultures. We often find ourselves caught up in someone else’s drama; we move to sound to relax, play a heartfelt song at a wedding, or use music to captivate the emotions of someone dear during a funeral.

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Holistic integrated creative arts focus on our mind, body, and soul connection. The techniques and tools allow us to express unprocessed emotions, depict our feelings without finding words, and visualise our subconscious behaviours creatively. Meditation teaches us to pause and be calm without judgment or expectation. We can feel safe and in control by selecting colours to paint, moving and creating shapes with our bodies, using patterns to express thoughts, dancing to music to release tension, sculpting clay to represent places or people, and understanding how the drama of everyday life has shaped who we are.

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“Connect with Creativity” was established in 2022 to help people rediscover their true selves and equip them with tools and techniques to develop and understand how to empower themselves. When someone has experienced trauma, lives with a medical condition, has difficulty speaking, or struggles with anxiety, stress, or severe depression, they need to find ways to change their thought process and learn new behaviours. Providing a safe, non-judgmental environment for people to explore their story through various creative modalities equips them with the tools to understand their issues, express hidden emotions, and reconnect with the person they once were or aspire to be.

If you could learn one thing that enables you or someone you know to relax, realign, restore, heal, and have fun in a safe way, would you connect with creativity?


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