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Art journalling to support mental wellness

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......imagine yourself as a small boat, how will you chart your course.... Art Journalling to Support Mental Wellbeing. It's a thing.  The act of applying paint or paper with glue and glitter to a surface is a mindful practice and we all now know how mindfulness keeps us present and prevents us from straying into the unalterable past or the unknown future.  Past and future are places where we do not belong.  We have no influence there. No control. The present is what we have. It's where we live our days and create the foundations for the days to come. ......... if you keep doing what you've always done you'll keep getting what you've always go t........ Of course you can spend a happy hour or two lost in creative play and then return to being a worrywart but those creative hours are like a healing balm to our soul. Art journalling can serve many purposes. An art journal can be a place where you make art, just for yourself. It can be where you explore ideas about art