Painting Therapy?

There are many types of creative therapy, including horse therapy and equine courses, but what about painting? According to this thread...

http://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/painting-therapy.12448/

and a few other sources it seems this could catch on. Right now its just a small group of individual people that paint out feelings and try to focus bad ones into better and more productive things. 

As one girl said...

"I have a painting from when I was 15 yrs old hanging on my wall. When I walk past it and look at it, I feel what I did at that age."

Paintings can bring you back to different times in your life whether they are good or bad. When you look back on a painting from the past at a rough time in life, it might make you thankful for where your at now. Or if your going through hard times and look back on a good painting you made in the past, it can renew hope. 

I think it would be great to start seeing Painting Therapy groups start popping up everywhere. It will probably be a while longer before you see this get any bigger, just like it took horse therapy years to "catch on". 

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