Healing Art Challenge: Delight

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself.

Give yourself peace of mind.

You deserve to be happy.

You deserve delight.

~Hannah Arendt

Oh, man have I been in a winter slump!  Have you?  Exhausted after the holidays, it's so easy for the blahs to set in.  This week I was given the wonderful advice to take the tasks that are most challenging me and do whatever I can to make them fun.. turn on fun music, laugh, dance, whatever I need to do!  So that's, what this challenge is all about.. finding joy!  So get out your paints, crayons, your pencils, your musical instruments.. whatever the tools are for your medium for creation and interpret delight for us!  Please email your pictures, poems, photos, or performances to friendsinhealing@gmail.com by Thursday, February 4 at 12 pm CST time.  The gallery will be posted on this site later that day.  If you publish a blog, please give me the link so it can be shared along with your work!

And for a little extra inspiration... please visit this post on Why Adults Need Play, by my very wise older sister and lifetime playmate, Jodi Crane, play therapist.

Healing Art Challenge: Commit

The achievement of your goal is assumed the moment you commit yourself to it.

~ Mack R. Douglas



I am a firm believer that our thoughts are the primary factor in what we are able to accomplish.  There are people who begin a task knowing that it will come to fruition because they will do whatever is in their power , no matter what happens, to make it so.  And there are those who begin a task telling themselves they are not capable, that they might not succeed, that the best they can do is try (which usually means they will work towards their goal until the first roadblock manages its way into their path.)

For this challenge, please create pieces based on the idea of committing to a goal.  Paintings, photographs, videos, poems... any form of art is allowed! Please email your pieces to friendsinhealing@gmail.com by Thursday, January 13 at 12 pm CST time. Please note that entries that do not reflect the healing nature of the challenge or arrive late, might not be included.

If you are interested in purchasing the above piece for $65+shipping, please email friendsinhealing@gmail.com.  All proceeds go towards the work of the Friends in Healing community.

Healing Art Gallery: And the Award Goes to...

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The challenge this week was to create your own personal "awards show" out of the memories from 2010.  Participants were asked to artistically interpret a list of the year's winners for the following categories:

Best Inspirational Person

Best Moment in Nature

Best Lesson Learned

Best Bellylaugh

Best Song /Movie/Book

Best Playful Moment

Best Self-Achievement

Best Outcome from a Difficult Experience

Best Meal

Best Moment of Kindness Witnessed

It's so easy to focus on the difficult, and negative moments from the year.  This was such a fun way to look at some of the great things!  I'm really excited to show you these pieces, excited to have a few new mediums thrown in the mix.  I hope you'll take the time to jot a kind comment to our participants this week!

The best parts of my 2010

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~Amanda

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~HiddenChild

Just a reminder that we will have our online movie club discussion of  "The Music Within" on January 11 at 6pm CST in the Education Room of the Friends in Healing chatroom on this blog.  You can read more about January movie club here.  And we will havr our online book club discussion of  She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb on January 25 at 1 pm CST time in the Education Room.  You can read more about January book club here.

Healing Art Challenge: And the Award Goes to...

It's time to create our own end of the year awards! It's easy to remember the things that saddened us and brought us down... let's find a way to focus on the good things as well!  Your challenge is to artistically interprest a list of  your year's winners for the following categories:

Best Inspirational Person

Best Moment in Nature

Best Lesson Learned

Best Bellylaugh

Best Song /Movie/Book

Best Playful Moment

Best Self-Achievement

Best Outcome from a Difficult Experience

Best Meal

Best Moment of Kindness Witnessed

You can paint, draw, write, photocollage, make a movie, anything your heart desires!  Please email your pieces to friendsinhealing@gmail.com by Thursday, January 6 at 12 pm CST time. Please note that entries that do not reflect the healing nature of the challenge or arrive late, might not be included.  Look for our gallery to go up on that day!

Healing Art Gallery: Angels We Have Heard on High

~rosypose

Gloria in excelsis deo!  Thank you to all those who sent in pieces as we reflect this week on the glorious tidings from host of angels!  May you all have a blessed Christmas with family and friends and remember the true joy of the season in your heart!

~Forktail

~playcrane

~magiccat

~jillie

~rosypose

~amanda16

~magiccat

~magiccat



Healing Art Challenge: Angels We Have Heard on High

Our series of challenges inspired by traditional Christmas carols is coming to a close this week.. and what a fantastic piece of music to be our finale!  This week we will be working together to create a heavenly host inspired by the song "Angels We Have Heard on High."    As you work this week on your pieces, let their joyous refrain echo not only in the mountains and valleys.. but in your heart as well!

Please email your pieces to friendsinhealing@gmail.com by Thursday, December 23 at 12 pm CST time. Please note that entries that do not reflect the healing nature of the challenge or arrive late, might not be included.

And to get the wings of creativity fluttering...

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