So, how's your mental?

 Class this week was about the many ways one could be expressed through art. We started off with writing therapy and ended with drawing therapy. During the writing therapy, I discussed the troubles I had to go through while growing up. I felt left out of the family because I wasn't as lady-like as I could have been, therefore I was often compared to my cousin who was. I constantly worried if I was doing anything right, and when I was my family would ask, "Why can't you be more like Maya." This of course dropped my self-esteem for a really long time until I realized that I wasn't like Maya cause I wasn't Maya. Lol.  During the drama portion of the class, we had to act out courage and fear. I volunteered to play the role of Alaina, she faced problems with knowing which direction to go in when it came to school. She talked about how she changed majors and still wasn't sure if it was good for her. She had to deal with those inner thoughts that told her she was...

       This week's class was about art therapy, and how we could express the ways we feel at the moment through a work of art. We had to choose four words, which I chose: Despair, abandoned, confident, and hopeful. These represent the two ways in which a feel, and the two ways how I want to feel. At the moment I was getting over someone and wanted to feel happier afterward instead of feeling alone.  I used an image of a broken heart necklace with the broken piece left on the ground to represent despair. And a single hand reaching to grab onto something whilst being in the middle of the ocean represents abandonment. These images were very descriptive and thought out verses my images soon hopefulness, a rainbow, and confidence, a superhero. Yes, these could have a deeper meaning, but I felt as if I didn't feel connected with what I actually wanted to feel, I was more connected to how I felt at that very moment.  In the passage, it states, " When the ther...