Day 41 - Caught up in writing!!!
I’m feeling good about it and will submit it for publication soon. I find writing a bit of a rollercoaster of confidence and insecurity! I think when I’m hyperfocused it’s easier to feel confident, and at other times it feels as though each word costs me a piece of ego!
Here's one paragraph that I feel particularly good about!!
Expressive arts therapy is now understood to be the use of an arts-based approach to personal growth and community development. For many, expressive arts therapy happens under the license of counseling and psychotherapy—individual, family, group, and community. Expressive arts include visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes. Expressive arts therapy, like many of the creative arts therapies, does not define itself as an arts-based “approach” to therapy, but instead reconstructs the practice of therapy to include arts-based processes as a primary means of inquiry, engagement, and change. Like mestiza consciousness, the arts therapies resist the additive approach of “arts + therapy,” and instead propose a continual creative process of breaking down the concepts of “the arts” and “therapy” to create a new paradigm – a new practice of care rooted in the imagination and the creative process. Again, Anzaldua (2012) suggests:
This assembly is not one where severed or separated pieces merely come together. Nor is it a balancing of opposing powers. In attempting to work out a synthesis, the self has added a third element which is greater than the sum of its severed parts. That third element is a new consciousness—a mestiza consciousness – and though it is a source of intense pain, its energy comes from continual creative motion that keeps breaking down the unitary aspect of each new paradigm. (p. 101-102)
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