GREAT QUESTION!!! I follow Lisa Sonora Beam’s blog and today she asked the question:
How Does Art & Creativity Heal?
My reply is: 
If I didn’t have ART in my life, I don’t think I would have survived my bout with Cancer in 1998, the death of my sister (10 mths. younger than me) in 1999, the death of my father in 2002 and the near death of my husband in 2007…..oh and my kidney removal surgery last October.
ART is my constant – some place I can go when I need time to think or get away from worries, etc.
ART is my thermometer, my compass – its always there when I need comfort or to be uplifted.
ART is ME!
I am me because of ART!
I make Art because it brings me JOY every day!!!
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I don’t know the answer to the question. I do know that music helped me survive my childhood. Through it I could express my emotions, without words. It filled many lonely hours. It gave me joy.
Thank you so much for sharing this, Dale Anne.
No matter how many stories I hear like yours, I am always emotionally struck by how: 1) we all suffer 2) and how we are lucky if we find a way to soothe that suffering with our own creations.
Which is beautiful, isn’t it?
Big virtual hug, Lisa
YES indeed Lisa!
Wish more people would use art as their tool for healing instead of anger!