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English
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"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of...
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Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sharing hard-won lessons from years of creating in the margins of motherhood, Ashlee equips women to discover the sacred connection between creating and mothering-without feeling guilty or selfish. Through creative exercises, journaling prompts, and more, you'll be inspired to make space to pursue the creative dreams God has planted in your heart"--
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Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Outlines a lifestyle plan that is intrinsically creative, explaining how to tap one's artistic instincts in order to reach specific goals, in an anecdotal reference that also reveals how to draw strength and inspiration from quiet moments.
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this long-anticipated guide to the craft of writing, Block offers an intimate glimpse of an artist at work and a detailed guide to help readers channel their own experiences and creative energy. Sharing visceral insights and powerful exercises, she gently guides us down the write-to-heal path, revealing at each turn the intrinsic value of channeling our experiences onto the page. Named for the painting by Frida Kahlo, who famously transformed...
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Publisher
Black Irish Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. What we get when we turn pro. What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
There is an increasing tendency among psychotherapists to use art therapy in the general treatment environment. Art therapy integrates the creative process of making art with counseling and psychotherapy. This growing use of art therapy has led to the current debate on its use as an expressionist therapeutic mode of treatment to bring about desirable societal change. This paper examines conceptual frameworks and theoretical constructs of art therapy...
76) Living the artist's way: an intuitive path to greater creativity : a six-week artist's way program
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Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In her international bestselling book The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron shared with her millions of readers the three main tools needed to unlock creativity. Now, in her revolutionary new book Living the Artist's Way, Cameron finally reveals the vital fourth Artist's Way tool that she relies upon daily to find creative inspiration: writing for guidance. Over the course of six weeks, readers learn the radical new skill needed to take their creativity...
78) Making comics
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling...