The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived

“The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived” – From the facebook page of Artizen Magazine
Many, if not most, people experience some kind of trauma in life. How does creative expression help people deal with it, to heal and recover? How can surviving painful experiences sometimes fuel creativity?
See quotes by and about many well-known artists such as Sarah Polley, Halle Berry, Lady Gaga, will.i.am, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonathan Safran Foer and others in article: Creative People, Trauma and Mental Health.
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The Creative Adult is the Child Who Has Survived by Rita J. King, EVP, Science House.
“Imagination is not a ‘soft skill.’ It is the workspace of your brain, the place where connections are made between ideas to create something new.”
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Healing and art: SARK and others on abuse and creativity
3 Things To Learn From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – A Gifted Trauma Survivor, By Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC
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