Today feels like a Fantastic Friday!

It’s exciting to know that many people are opening up and writing about their feelings. Some are realizing that writing has therapeutic and healing qualities. Writing Therapy, Poetry Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance Therapy, Art Therapy, and many other creative therapies are part of the Expressive Arts Therapies. Many psychotherapists such as myself know that creativity can be used to help heal emotional wounds and sometimes physical ailments.

The writer, poet, musician, dancer, artist or other creative artists can experience self-healing as a result of expressing their feelings using a creative method. Creative artists can also create stories, poems, music, art, and other forms of healing artistry that can be used by others seeking an alternative or supplement to traditional therapeutic healing. 

Many contributors to the anthology, Step Into My Shoes: Expressions from the LGBTQ Community, probably felt an inner healing as they wrote their poems, stories or letters.  Their heartfelt expressions are a valuable resource for others seeking healing within their own minds and hearts. If you are seeking comfort in knowing others share your sentiments as a member of the LGBTQ community, this anthology is for you.

It is a Fantastic Friday thanks to the multi-talented contributors who made this anthology a valuable tool for the Expressive Arts therapies.