Posted by Dinah on January 8, 2003, at 10:27:40
In reply to Re: Therapist brought out the crayons, posted by rayww on January 8, 2003, at 10:19:53
For me, emotions were hard to express in words, but easier to express in terms of color. I could imagine each emotion as a color as I felt it better than I could come up with a name for it. I could see my father's anger as a black heavy cloud with thunderbolts of red energy. I could see my anxiety as shades of yellow, with electricity skittling over the surface. Then I had a list of emotions that my therapist gave me, and tried to place each one on my color chart.
I know art is used a lot in therapy. Not mine, thank heavens. I'm still drawing stick figures.
I doubt there is any real connection. But you might want to encourage your son to use different ways to express emotion.
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