Healing arts provides access to all the parts of you without recalling all the trauma but rather, through bodily observation, exploration and an inner quest for answers.
Domestic Violence is a breeding ground for patterns of survival stress to live out in your actions when there is no threat and no imminent danger.
It keeps you stuck, afraid and frustrated.
Getting down and dirty with your deepest fears and insecurities makes you want to run for hills right?!
You pulled yourselves through that sh*tshow BUT now you are:
- withdrawing away from social events because it's bloody exhausting ensuring you can see the exit door, watching every movement for escalating behaviours, and determining if it is OK every second.
- have angry outbursts that surprise you in unrelated moments with those you love. Throwing word daggers at anyone that gets too close to your vulnerable spots.
- minimise your stature so that you are not drawing ANY attention to you, catering to everyone else's needs while denying your own, squashing down your values, wants and desires so as not to make a scene because we all know where that ends up, right?!
Camouflaging into niceties makes you f*^king miserable but, no one knows this because you smile so brightly and convincingly.
There is a way to confront our resistance to embodying our authenticity through the arts with playfulness, splashes of colour, curiosity, movement and attentiveness to your presence in flow state.
No trying to FIND words to explain the past...expressive arts moves beyond verbal ping-pong to the sensory experiential movements formed through your creative energy to shift blocks, resistance, spring forth understanding, shift your perspective and lets you heal with empowerment.
When you have been hurt you build a freaking fortress around your heart, place barbed wire and large signposts saying no entry, wait outside, safety first...BUT this dampens down your light, your ability to connect, your passions and your essence.
Get your hands dirty to create avenues into your heart.
