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- Diminish our aloneness<\/li>\n
- Lessen anxiety and stress<\/li>\n
- Alleviate fears and frustrations<\/li>\n
- Ride our emotional rollercoasters<\/li>\n
- Learn to feel, what we feel, when we’re feeling it<\/li>\n
- Find connections with others<\/li>\n
- Stumble upon fulfillment where we least expect it<\/li>\n
- Become friends with uncertainty and most importantly begin to see beyond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\tWhy create from life’s uncertainties and struggles?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nWhen we repress emotions and silence our stories, our ability to become whole is weakened.\u00a0 Creativity offers us the safety to unearth and express all that we think and feel.\u00a0 As we creatively shape these thoughts and feelings, we begin to cope more effectively with the roller coaster of emotions that\u00a0 life triggers.\nHealing Icons\u00ae offers the tools needed for creatively journeying through life!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\t
Restorative & Life Changing Offerings Serve<\/h2>\nAll Chronic Diseases +\u00a0\u00a0Life Disruptive Events +\u00a0Individual and Community\u00a0Healing\nLet a few cancer survivors show you how.<\/strong>\n\t\t14 Million\n\t\t\t\t\tYearly Diagnoses\n\t
It is hard to imagine what 14 million people really look like but one in every four might be easier. One in every four people in our world will face this arduous Cancer Journey, a grueling journey physically, emotionally, spiritually. If you’re a cancer survivor, you get this.\u00a0 If you are not, let us introduce you to a few of these millions of courageous survivors. Let them show you how art helped save their lives.<\/p>\n\t
Ramifications<\/h3>\n
We invite you to put yourselves in their shoes. Follow them through their doctor’s appointments, their chemo & radiation treatments, their pain & nausea, fatigue & sleeplessness, their body scars & loss of hair, their fight for life!<\/p>\n
No one chooses this path but everyone needs a helping hand through it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\tFinding the Right Kind of Support\u2028<\/h3>\n
Overwhelmed by what is happening to our bodies, it can be extremely difficult to even identify what is being felt on the inside. A participant once said, “I feel as though I have un-namable overwhelming sensations that whirl around inside my head and my body but they are not speech ready.” Not Speech Ready.<\/p>\n
How do we experience what is happening in our lives when we can’t put words to it…when Sometimes Words Are Not Enough.<\/p>\n
This is where Healing Icons\u00ae comes into play.<\/p>\n\t
Art as Healing<\/h2>\n\t
Healing Icons<\/h3>\n
What is a Healing Icon\u00ae? The word icon comes from the Greek word eikon, meaning likeness. So a Healing Icon\u00ae is simply visually representation of the cancer survivor’s journey, each one being uniquely personal and intimate.<\/p>\n\t
Creative Expression<\/h3>\n
This is art making that comes from the gut, honest & raw.\u00a0 It is not about talent and right or wrong.\u00a0 It is simply about learning another language and trusting where this silent powerful language of color and texture and line leads us.<\/p>\n\t
Awesome Sense of Freedom<\/h3>\n
Most importantly we experience an awesome sense of freedom while having loads of fun getting messy, getting lost and getting very curious. As you begin to get lost in the process of art making, slowly your creations will begin to speak to you, giving voice to what was once unspeakable.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\tPost Treatment<\/h3>\n
After treatment many survivors feel strangely alone and abandoned especially if a cancer survivorship plan has not been put into place. As the journey forward begins, there are many quality of life issues to face. Post-treatment challenges such as the short and long term side effects of treatment, stress of years of follow up appointments, fear of reoccurrence… In other words, transitioning from active treatment into recovery isn’t easy. Healing Icons classes offers support during active treatment and beyond.<\/p>\n\t
Proving It<\/h2>\n\t
Research shows<\/h2>\n
Research from the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine shows that mindfulness meditation coupled with art therapy can successfully decrease stress symptoms- Yay! We knew this already but nice when studies point to what we know and love!\u00a0 Our mindful art-making practices produce the same benefits as meditation, improving your ability to handle and recover from stress while lowering stress hormone levels.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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