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Maarit Rivers Counselling, specialising Art- Sand- and Play Therapy

Locality: Sydney, Australia

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25.01.2022 Art Challenge day six: TWO

21.01.2022 Art challenge day three; Inside

21.01.2022 Art challenge day 29, theme TREAT: For me, this evoked COVID19, the illness, the wound, and how its treatment can go either way. TREAT VERB to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone when ill.

21.01.2022 Art challenge day five. GIFT. Nature keeps on gifting.

20.01.2022 Art Challenge day 18 theme HUMAN MADE. Let's all sit down and have a good cuppa. Things will change and get better.

19.01.2022 Art challenge day 28, theme WOODEN. Driftwood, pearls, and glass found at the beach. Mothers day art.

18.01.2022 Art in isolation day 23, Theme DARK

18.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/alshamscentrepage/videos/177109716740430

18.01.2022 Art Challenge day 16. Theme YELLOW. DANDELION is a misunderstood plant. It is not a weed at all. Dandelions are a great source of pollen for the bees. From root to flower, dandelion is a highly nutritious plant for humans too, loaded with vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Dandelion greens can be eaten cooked or raw and serve as an excellent source of vitamins A, C, and K. They also contain vitamin E, folate, and small amounts of other B vitamins. Dandelion contains iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.

17.01.2022 Huggy, the bear and its friends are sad because of the Covid they cant be in the therapy room.

17.01.2022 Art Challenge day 11: Theme Human. The humans lifes thread of love, from a little girl to old crone. My granddaughter and me.

16.01.2022 My day one: Edible. I just finished eating a mandarin.

16.01.2022 Art Challenge day 11: Theme Human. The human's life's thread of love, from a little girl to old crone. My granddaughter and me.

15.01.2022 Art challenge day 10. Cover. This theme reminded me of my sons and his partners dog that stays with us now and then. He likes to stay under the doonas and blankets.

15.01.2022 Art challenge day 28, theme WOODEN. Driftwood, pearls, and glass found at the beach. Mother's day art.

14.01.2022 Art challenge day 12:Theme is ESSENTIAL. Nature is essential for me.

14.01.2022 Day two: Time. This is time in the Australian bush. Banksia and other bits, from small buds to a flower to a seedpod, then comes decay, fires, white ants, other insects, fungi, all regenerating nature. Before the cycle starts again. This is a sandtray work, not sandplay. Sandplay is non-directive, it rises from the unconscious without any outside guidance. Focusses on felt sense and thought. It is done one on one therapeutic situation by a trained sandplay professional. Sandtray direction comes from outside, can be problem-solving, themes can be provided, could be both directive or non-directive.

13.01.2022 Art challenge day 19 Theme MYSTICAL. If you enter the forest at night...

13.01.2022 Art Challenge Day 22, LIGHT

12.01.2022 Art challenge day 10. Cover. This theme reminded me of my son's and his partner's dog that stays with us now and then. He likes to stay under the doonas and blankets.

12.01.2022 When we were doing the SCARY, I wanted to do Banshee. I wanted to continue my theme of dark feminine but it took me this long to get it finished. Better later than ever. "The Banshee is a female spirit and is considered to be an omen of death. The Banshee roams the countryside and can be heard wailing when she predicts death. She is usually described as an ugly elderly woman dressed in white or grey with long silver hair." (Claddagh Design)

12.01.2022 "Understanding the stages of grief is a start. But whenever I talk about the stages of grief, I have to remind people that the stages arent linear and may not happen in this order. Its not a map but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world. Theres denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus wont affect us. Theres anger: Youre making me stay home and taking away my activities. Theres bargaining: Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right? Theres sadness: I dont know when this will end. And finally theres acceptance. This is happening; I have to figure out how to proceed." Scott Berinato https://hbr.org//03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief

12.01.2022 Time to start creating: There are several sites that you can follow to make your art: This is one of them: arthttps://www.facebook.com/groups/isolationartchallenge/

12.01.2022 Art challenge day 30, (last day) Theme HOME. HOME(sick) for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. (Welsh)

12.01.2022 The theme for the art challenge day eight is MISS. Most of all I miss my grand-daughter.

11.01.2022 Art Challenge day 21. DELICATE

10.01.2022 Art Challenge day 13, WHEEL. Ouroboros, the serpent biting its own tail originated in ancient Egyptian mythology. It symbolises the wheel of life, the continual cycle of renewal of birth, life, death and then birth again.

09.01.2022 Art Challenge day 18 theme HUMAN MADE. Lets all sit down and have a good cuppa. Things will change and get better.

08.01.2022 Hi, I will be opening my therapy room for appointments from 1st of July. Get in touch for an appointment. And I will be looking forward to seeing you.

08.01.2022 Art challenge day 27. Anatomical. Here I am dealing with my hip replacements.

06.01.2022 Huggy, the bear and its friends are sad because of the Covid they can’t be in the therapy room.

05.01.2022 Art Therapy challenge day 26. Theme SCARY.

05.01.2022 Art Challenge day 15 theme NATURE. The unfurling of a new leaf, trying to emulate Georgia O'Keeffe, however, Georgia I ain't.

04.01.2022 How do you feel?

04.01.2022 rt challenge day 17 Theme FRIENDS (holding hands mandala)

04.01.2022 Art challenge day 25, Theme MAKE. Art therapy challenge day 25. MAKE. My little green man complained that the forest was too dark and gloomy. He wanted me to MAKE a happy tree. So I made him one. He is much happier now.

03.01.2022 Art challenge day 14, theme CALM. This has my totem symbols and things that evoke calm in me.

03.01.2022 Àrt challenge day 17 Theme FRIENDS (holding hands mandala)

02.01.2022 Art therapy challenge day seven: Material used to make a weaving.

02.01.2022 Art Challenge day 9 RANDOM

02.01.2022 Art challenge day four: WILD.

02.01.2022 Day seven art challenge is MATERIAL. I collected all these materials to part take in the webinar about weaving.

01.01.2022 Art Challenge day 15 theme NATURE. The unfurling of a new leaf, trying to emulate Georgia OKeeffe, however, Georgia I aint.

01.01.2022 Art in isolation challenge day 24 theme FLIGHT The owl is a symbol of the feminine, the moon, and the night. It is a bird of magic, darkness, prophecy, and wisdom. The barn owl is sometimes called the ghost owl, because of its silent flight and its colouring. It is also the symbol of transformation. It brings what is dark into light, but also have the ability to live in the dark itself. It is also a frequent companion of shamans.

01.01.2022 https://www.bustle.com/p/how-art-helps-your-mental-health-a