My experience both personal as an artist and clinical as an art therapist tells me that art making is a reasonably effective way to stop perseverating thoughts dead in their tracks. It does not seem likely that a therapist or any individual could engage the art making process in the midst of a panic attack [...]

There is a phenomenon, or perhaps we should call it a human tendency. That tendency is to take longer rather than shorter showers. My wife to be sure likes really really long showers. I don’t particularly like long showers as i find them wasteful on water but i definitely go beyond five minutes in the [...]