Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
One’s self, one’s family, and one’s community can bloom with the practice of creativity and self-expression for health and healing. Medical doctor  and best-selling author Samuels and Lane, a professor, nurse, and painter, explain in great detail how to conduct their acclaimed 12-week program aimed at helping individuals, caregivers, and even troubled neighborhoods foster new perspectives and enact healthy change.  They offer instructions for using anecdotes and artistic activities designed to activate both the inner artist and the inner healer and to share creative pursuits with others. With lots of background information and solid advice, Samuels and Lane elucidate the healing potentials of a variety of art forms, including music, dance, writing, and drawing, and suggest rituals and ceremonies to inspire and support creative awakenings and development. Instructions for diverse projects and exercises are accompanied by stories about people who have been healed by art. These two enthusiastic experts in the burgeoning arts-in-medicine movement guide readers toward achieving positive energy transformation and many other benefits in this practical and inspiring how-to for improving one’s physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual life. --Whitney Scott