![When Museums can be a Space for Healing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/09/valerie-titova-4sfQH0tS78k-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Art has long been used as a form of expression, often giving a peek into the artist’s deepest thoughts and feelings. The benefits from this…
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Lauren Rudolph is committed to helping people improve their wellbeing through holistic health approaches, poetry, and art. Lauren’s art focuses on mental health, emotions, and…
![mental health, depressed, bipolar, manic, behaviour, shame, guilt, art, trauma, self-help, expression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/04/nick-fewings-I3Y1N_d-kHU-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Vancouver artists Janet Ford shares her experience with bulimia and bipolar disorder through her artwork. Her piece “Who Cares” displays the ‘who cares’ mentality experienced…
![mental health, art, agoraphobia, phobias, isolated, trapped, expression, anxiety, feelings, recovery](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/12/kasper-rasmussen-psquSJ8EmJQ-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Agoraphobia is the fear of going outside, leaving your comfort zone and interacting with the world. For many of us, especially due to the COVID-19…
![mental health, depressed, trauma, coping, emotion regulation, psycho-educational, self-help, expression, art, recovery](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/08/elyas-pasban-ibt3BUJELaQ-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Individuals feel depersonalization when they repeatedly experience a state in which they believe they are viewing themselves as an external person. It is explained as…
![Mental health, mental crisis, chronic pain, suffering, depression, pain, art, expression, melancholy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/06/henry-ford-hospital-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Frida Kahlo was a brilliant artist whose evocative, surreal images remain well-known and popular today, but she was also a woman who spent her life…
![Cocoons lined up (from left to right): an early-stage chrysalis, a late-stage chrysalis, and a monarch butterfly.](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/06/suzanne-d-williams-VMKBFR6r_jg-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world gather at various comic and fan conventions, many of whom take part in cosplay. Cosplay comes from…
![Self Criticism and Self Support](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/03/15E1FEA6-291D-4531-8D46-75247E2E8557-470x140.png?x81652)
Mollia May is an aspiring artist who discovered how to use the therapeutic power of art to better understand and express herself from an early…
![Depression, Feelings, Emotions, Watercolour, Expression, Mental Health, Art, Images, Cope, Elianne, Painting](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/12/144B9284-C8F9-4862-9AF3-578EC4F6883F-470x140.png?x81652)
Art can be a useful method of expressing emotions that are difficult to convey through words. Elianne is able to do this in her artwork…
![Depression, Loneliness, Art Therapy, Hope, Sad, Mental Health, Coping, Melancholy, Expression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/09/C73E7DA5-759D-41F4-B563-D2CAE462942F-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Janelia Mould, a photographer based in South Africa, specializes in shooting surreal concept images that tell a unique story. Her series Melancholy — A Girl…