Phenomenal Women: A Portrait Gallery of Role Models by Robyn Hussa Farrell
May 28, 2018 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Art Therapy, Body Image, Creative Art, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Media Literacy, Mindfulness, Moms & Sisters, Politics, Prevention, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Social Justice, Spirituality, Stress Management, Treatment, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
In celebration of the 10th year of this empowerment blog site, #RealDeal Editor, Robyn Hussa Farrell, shares this “gallery of role models” and fierce women leaders. Each of the below paintings were created while reflecting on the abundance of women role models in my life. In honor and celebration of each of them, I wanted […]
An Interview with Dr. Patricia Leavy about Research Design and Why Knowledge-Building Practices Matter
May 4, 2017 by Patricia Leavy
Filed under Art Therapy, Featured
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D. is an independent sociologist and best-selling author. She has published twenty-two books, earning critical and commercial success in both nonfiction and fiction. Her books have been translated into numerous languages. She is also the creator and editor for seven book series with Oxford University Press and Sense Publishers, the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief […]
An Exclusive Interview with Feminist Patricia Leavy about Receiving a National Creativity Award
October 8, 2014 by Jacob Burman
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Art Therapy, Body Image, Creative Art, Depression, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Mindfulness, Parents, Politics, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Wellness, What to Say, How to Say It
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and novelist (formerly Associate Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of Gender Studies and Chairperson of Sociology & Criminology at Stonehill College). She has published sixteen books including the best-sellers Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (Guilford Press, 2009, 2015) and novels American Circumstance (Sense Publishers, 2013) and Low-Fat […]
Finding the Artist within: Art Therapy and Eating Disorders
January 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Art Therapy, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Creative Art, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
Art Therapy has been a powerful and effective coping skill that the eating disorder community has embraced for decades. Art therapy helps and challenges a person to create and to reflect on the process of the art making experience and the art work they create. This process is powerful especially for someone who is suffering […]
Feminist Scholar Blurs the Arts and Sciences: An Intimate Conversation
July 17, 2013 by Tracy
Filed under Art Therapy, Creative Art, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Wellness
*This interview of Dr. Patricia Leavy was originally prepared for publication in the now defunct arts e-zine, HerCircle* I interviewed scholar and novelist Patricia Leavy for an UpClose Interview featured in February 2012 HerCircle E-Zine, about her passion for blurring the arts and sciences. Since that interview Leavy has gone from being a professor to […]
Meet Becca — Pioneer, Visionary, and Environmentally-Friendly Taxidermist
March 23, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Art Therapy, Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Moms & Sisters, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Care
Real Deal exclusive interview with Becca: a Pioneer, Visionary and Environmentally-Friendly Taxidermist. I first met Becca about a year or so ago, when we both attended a production of NORMAL THE MUSICAL in Charleston, SC. Becca offered feedback that — to this day — has served as a catalyst for some new programs for our […]
Meditation and Stress-Management Through Ancient Painting Techniques
January 19, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Art Therapy, Creative Art, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Mindfulness, Recovery, Role Models, Self-Care, Wellness, Writing and Poetry, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Yoga Therapy
I recently learned of a style of painting called suiboku-ga or Sumi-e that originated with Zen monks — the artform itself is a meditative practice. What better stress-management tool could there be? It employs art, yogic teachings, meditation and mindfulness. With gratitude to a yogi that I have followed for about 8 years named Leza […]
The Art of Paper (Toque de Queda)
December 4, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Art Therapy, Body Image, Creative Art, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Self Esteem
One of the goals of the WATRD site is to help people learn healthy ways to manage stress (especially through the arts). I learned of Aydasara Ortega’s paper-making and had to interview her for the site. I hope it helps you find a little peace through the holiday craze! Robyn Hussa, Author/Editor, WATRD 1. Aydasara, […]
Women Hurting Each Other or Helping?
July 14, 2012 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Art Therapy, Body Image, Creative Art, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, HAES, Loving Your Body, Role Models, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma
About fifteen year’s ago I was introduced to this painting and — to this day — it haunts me. I find it so incredibly powerful. I was introduced to the artist — Gustav Rehberger — through a friend who took me to his studio. Rehberger’s gallery was a work space located in a loft […]
My Journey Home
March 11, 2012 by Joslyn Smith
Filed under Art Therapy, Creative Art, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, HAES, Loving Your Body, Politics, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
As my introductory post for WATRD, I thought I’d share a little about myself and what brings me to this point in life, so that going forward those reading my words might have a better idea of what influences the perspectives I share. I am a thirty-something year old woman who two years ago left […]
