Resources

The wellness wheel reminds us that wellness is not merely the absence of pain. Wellness is the personal, meaningful, and intentional effort toward positive wellbeing. START Creative Arts Therapy Services has our own Wellness Wheel Worksheet, which focuses on eight areas of wellbeing: mental & emotional, physical, social & cultural, sexuality, spirituality, occupation, finance, and environment. Please use this sheet to check in on your own areas of wellness!

This video assists viewers in mindfulness and breath work. Utilize this 30 second video to guide you to deeper breathing, calmer mood, and clearer thoughts.

Sometimes when we have a negative thought, it sends us into a spiral of unhealthy thinking patterns and false statements. Some patterns include: all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, mental filters (never focusing on the positives) and “should” statements. Whatever the negative thought pattern, these thoughts contribute to emotional distress and diminish our problem solving skills.

START: Creative Arts Therapy Services invites you to be a Witness Narrator to your own story. Use the checklist below to compile facts about a selected event from your own life. Remember: both you and other people’s emotions and thoughts of the scene you are witnessing are not a part of this process. Witness Narrators are not authors. They observe and document without opinion.

START: Creative Arts Therapy Services invites you to examine parts of you that help build and maintain your true self. Consider the three main componenets below and list the things that apply for you under each of the three points.