Coffee with Kym

Today we delve in to the broad topic of Expressive Arts Therapy. I'm a certified expressive arts therapist (cheers App state for offering such an awesome certificate program). In this episode I talk about what it means to bring art into the office and express your inner world beyond words. It's a pretty cool process! 

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Today's episode is about the other side of the coin from negative feedback loops. Positive feedback loops (started by a catalyst of some form) elicit change and a push to a new negative feedback loop to a new homeostasis. A positive feedback loop simply means you are moving through the process of change! So, it may be uncomfortable, but know - you are making changes in your life and that is awesome! 

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*Bunchy - a term once used by one of my mom's preschool special ed students to refer to their pants being wrinkled and twisted about their legs.

Today's episode is about starting a day feeling off and working on finding a way to bounce it back to a good day. I talk about grounding ideas and ways to return to homeostasis (your stable neutral). This (in marriage and family therapy world) is called a negative feedback loop. It is behaviors that return you back to that neutral. (It sounds bad, but it isn't I promise. If I could figure out how to link pictures on here I would - instead I will post one on my instagram for y'all to look at as how I visually represent negative feedback loops. 

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Today I talk about my (second) favorite processing technique - train of thought writing. This is a pretty basic technique wherein you simply write out everything you're thinking. No filter, repetitive words are fine (and encouraged if that's what you're thinking). The beauty of externalizing your thoughts onto paper (or a word document) is that you can throw it away/delete it/burn it/what have you. The point is once it is out of your head and on a physical item you can manipulate it how you want. Edit your thoughts, throw them away, etc. I highly recommend you try this. It's pretty fun on less anxious days to let it all out and then throw it away or annotate your own thinking. 

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I decided to share my anxiety with you all today. This goes into my thought processes around anxious thoughts and what I do when I'm going through them. It is the process of reminding myself that I'm only human (previous episode for more on that), and that pushing away things like my anxiety won't inherently solve them. 

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This episode is a small chatter about something I call thought webs. I'm sure there are other terms for it, but this is just what I've always called them. I focus on talking about how we get caught up in specific thoughts and through externalization (writing the thoughts down) you can give yourself the power to work on changing them. Invisible thought battles in your head are challenging and very hard to overcome. If you write things down it become easier to challenge the words on paper. 

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Here we're talking about anxiety on a national scale (US, cause that's where I live and those were the easiest stats for me to find. If you're international, please feel free to send me what you find in research!). I rely on NAMI and NIMH for my statistics (https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-numbers and https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disorder.shtml) though these are pretty dated statistics. The point I wanted to get across in this episode was that there are a lot of people out there walking through this world feeling the same or similar to you if you live with anxiety. I encourage you to practice grace toward others as we challenge mental health in the 21st century. 

Further notes- DSM5 is the current version. It is the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. 

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This time I wanted to talk about this super broad topic Anxiety and my experience with it. I will provide further commentary on anxiety at later dates. This is a broad sweeping experience of anxiety in my life and how I cope with it.

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This chat talks about how art and society are interconnected and shape one another. I explore the dynamics of anger and representation in the process of art.

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This coffee chat goes into the dynamic of embracing geek-hood (my words for myself). Embracing the creative individual and what the arts has to offer as a process of expression.

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