Drawing is a visual form of mindfulness to access our emotional landscape. For decades, Western psychology believed the royal road to mental health just required thinking differently to feel differently. Emotions were considered primal, messy, and rather beside the point. Beginning with the work of brilliant thinkers like Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) theorists began to poke-the-bear of that Western mindset. While it’s been something of...[ read more ]