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“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” - Bill Murray Good day to everyone! Hope you all are doing alright, especially with final exams coming up. Remember to take time for yourself, self care and your mental health is super important 🫶. In this blog, I want to touch on another historical figure for art therapy’s beginnings.

“When in doubt, look intelligent” - Garrison Keillor Hello everyone! After all these blogs about art therapy, with benefits and history and article reviews, what about the person who’s writing this? If art therapy is so great, what has my experience been? Today, I’ll take you on a small gallery tour of my experience with personal art therapy and show you a first hand account of someone who’s tried and found this extremely helpful.

”I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” - Lily Tomlin The time has finally come…Welcome to another art therapy blog! Today, my hypothesis and take on why art therapy helps. Why does it lower stress? Why does creating something have these calming and positive effects? I made you all wait a whole week (how cruel of me), it’s only fair I share it now.

“When life shuts a door...open it again. It’s a door. That’s how they work" - Unknown Hey everyone and welcome back to another art therapy blog! This one will be shorter than my usual ones but is still full of all the good stuff! I was scouring the internet, the vast online web, looking for an article about art therapy.

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“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.” - Bill Murray Can you believe this is my fourth blog?? Neither can I! It felt like yesterday I made my introduction and yet, I feel as though I have been posting blogs for so long. Time is fickle like that… During my last…

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” - Ron White Welcome back to another blog! Thank you for coming! Today, we’re gonna learn the origins and history of Art Therapy. Don’t worry, I won’t try to bore you with all the details.

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“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month” - Theodore Roosevelt I hope you all are having an amazing day. If not, that’s okay, you’re doing awesome anyway and tomorrow is another day! In this blog post, I’m going to explain what art therapy is exactly and I’ll even leave some sources below if you want to go a more professional route.

Good day to everyone! I am here to make a small introduction of myself and what I’ll be discussing in my blog. My name is Annie Ranger and I’m in my second year of University as a Psychology student. I am passionate in aiding and assisting others in need, inspired by my own journey of healing and the tools I learned to regulate my emotions.