Not sure how I ended up here, but it’s Saturday night, and I'm looking at archived artwork from patients in insane asylums. Reminded me of when I worked with individuals with severe mental health issues, and my favorite intervention to do was art or expressive writing. I’d tell them to imagine their racing or negative thoughts as the ink- and let them flow from the mind, through the pen, onto the paper. Creative expression is so healing because it transforms any emotional turmoil into something tangible- out the mind and into the hands