creative therapy.

I was never blessed in the artistic skills department, however, I've been keeping journals for the last year and a bit and found a new lease of creativity that had been laying dormant inside of me.

When my anxiety is at it's worse there is nothing that can help me, I've exhausted methods with my cognitive behavioural therapist and as of yet, we have yet to find a way to combat it.

However, what I discovered last year was that art, be it sketching, painting, doodling, whatever, has been a great way for me to at least semi distract myself when my anxiety is bad.

So, I thought I'd put this out there for anybody to give it a go if you haven't already. 

My favourite was "scrapbooking" but I've grown out of it now, I mainly just sketch now. But if you have any magazines around, scrapbooking is a great way of encompassing any flicker of creativity inside of you, be it just a flicker, or if you're one of the lucky ones who has multitudes of it. It just helps you focus on something in a way that watching a movie/TV show or reading doesn't really do, it doesn't work for everybody but it did help me focus on something despite my anxiety.

You can just make a page of things you like, or an interest of yours. Mine are mainly all fashion based, here are a couple of pages from my journal.