The Artist and The Therapist

Breaking Free from Prison

Would you stay in captivity if you were free to leave? #Nelson Mandela #Bitterness #Rent free in your brain #Grudges for a lifetime #12 steps #Moral inventory #Anger #1514 #The Liberation of Saint Peter #Fresco painting by Raphael #The Vatican #Angel #Guards #Unshackled chains #Staying in the cell #Addiction #Set you free #Second chance #Forgiveness #Don’t judge people by their mistakes #Relapse #Help someone #Give something back #Hope #Artist Richard Phillips #Wrongfully imprisoned #Pen pal #Lawsuit #Michigan #Sell paintings #Radical acceptance #Buddhist #Glorify prison #Prison break #Escape from Alcatraz #Orange is the New Black #Shawshank Redemption #Morgan Freeman #Tim Robbins #Money laundering #Warden #Dr. Paul Wood #New Zealand #Drug dealer #Murder #Mental prison #If not now when #Specifics #Mindfulness #Father #Gratefulness #Taking for granted #Living free #Ongoing #Not a problem it’s an opportunity #Victim #Pity #Pity City #What you think about the most #Yin and yang #Trash in your garden #Why do things keep happening to me #Brain will answer questions #Use that to your advantage #Ask effective questions #What did you learn #Counter intuitive #Rational thinking can hold you back #Sometimes be irrational #Naysayers #Caught in a loop #Use music as a tool #Music as a drug #Effects your mood #Original poem Captivity

Your Silent Scream

Is it time to investigate your silent scream? #Lighthouse #S.O.S. #Save our souls #Screaming on the inside #Stuffing it #Stuff it down #Implosion #Explosion #Black hole #Depression #Anger turned inward #Silent treatment #Child #Teen #Young Adult #Adult #Families #Speak up #Silent generation #Baby Boomers #Generation x #Bullying #Me too movement #Loneliness #Finances #Volcano #Rage #Go nuclear #Domestic violence #Anger management #Acting class #Haircut #Psychodrama #LAPD #Interrogation #Role playing #Communication #Hotlines #Nami #National alliance for the mentally ill #Identify source of silent scream #Warning signs #Isolation #Anhedonia #Zombie #Self destructive #Drugs #Alcohol #Cutting #Burning #Unprotected sex #Anxiety #Painting #Magic Markers #Permanent markers #Art #Crayons #Writing from your place of pain #Writing from your place of peace #Music #The Who #Pete Townshend #Roger Daltrey #Won’t get fooled again #Terry Riley #James Brown #Joe Cocker #The Scream painting #Edvard Munch #Panic disorder #Paris #Mummy #Krakatoa #1883 #1884 #Norway #Nightmare #Ask for help #Feeling normal in all its glory #Gratitude #Meditation #Big picture #Suicide #Behavior change #Lethal means #Guns in the home #Mood changes #Morbid talk #Risky behavior #Substance abuse #Putting yourself down #Call someone #Baby steps #Always keep fighting #Inner peace

You Are Water

Is water deeper than you think? #We are water #Song by Nashville cast TV show #Percentage of water in the body #Lungs #Skin #Brain #Heart #Sigmund Freud #Iceberg #Freud Id #Rebellious child #Muscles #Kidneys #Bones #Water content #Shock absorber #Religions #Baptism #Taoism #Wave of emotion #The storm will pass #Buddhism #The Great Wave of Kanagawa #Hokusai #Vincent Van Gogh #Tsunami #Wood block art #La mer #Composition by Claude Debussy #Pink Floyd #Emoji #Quicksilver #Ancient Greeks #Chaos #Carl Jung #Architypes #Unconscious #Subconscious #Mind like water #Overreacting #Underreacting #Splash #Pebble #Elephant #Panic #Acting appropriately #Ground state #Stress #Painting #Cleaning the brush #Leonardo da Vinci #Whirlpools #Maelstrom #Go with the flow #Laid back #Meyers Briggs #Actor #Rehearsal #Cold shower #Tony Robbins #Depression #Bubble bath #Lavender #Ice bath #Judgement #Yoko Ono #Family #Boat #Lake #Friendly #Waterfall #W. H. Auden #Benjamin Franklin #Griffith Observatory #James Dean #Breathe #Radical acceptance #Margret Atwood poem

Adding Color to Black & White

Could you change your life one color at a time? #Millions of colors #Black & white #Shades of grey #Black & white movie #Humphrey Bogart #Depression #Monotone grey #Technicolor #Edward Hopper #Identify and recall colors #We see what we are looking for #Singling out one color #Caught in a loop #Assign one color #Weight loss #Overweight #Organization #Color of the day #Mindfulness #Childlike eyes #Black and white spiral #Baby steps #Positive direction #Momentum can be a snail on the sidewalk in the rain #kaleidoscope #First color feature film in United States #Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation #Herbert Kalmus #Daniel Frost Comstock #W. Burton Wescott #Kinemacolor #Film #Process 1 #Prism beam splitter #Red and green filter #Projector #The Gulf Between #Florida #Natural light #Jacksonville #1916 #New York #Pimped out a train #Film processing lab #Problems on the set #1917 #1918 #Artistic commercial flop #The wizard of Oz #1939 #Tornado #Dorothy #Toto #Body double #Transition #Sepia tone #Dress and Make-up #Judy Garland #Technicolor Oz #Fire 1961 #Native American medicine wheel colors #Meaning of colors #Colorful dreams #Billy Steinberg #Tom Kelly #True colors are beautiful like a rainbow

Bermuda Divorce

Divorce can leave you lost at sea. Will you vanish or will you discover a path to thrive? #Why should a foolish marriage vow #Poem by John Dryden #Surreal artist Igor Morski divorce painting #Bermuda Triangle #Chaos #Confusion #Rowing against each other #Teddy bear #Image breaks heart #Reba McEntire #Every other weekend #Kids suffer the most in divorce #Resilient #Co-parenting #Forever tethered #Artwork #Falling through the cracks painting #Kevin Grass #Swing set #Storm #Paper airplanes #Wind blowing in different directions #Frida Kahlo #Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird #1940 #Monkeys on shoulders #Necklace of thorns #Lifeless hummingbird #Stoic #The Two Fridas painting #Dissecting heart #2 hearts connected #The two sides of divorce #Holding on and moving on #I paint my own reality #Rebirth #Divorce rates down #Joan Rivers #Nevada #Arkansas #Iowa #Getting married young #Increases risk #Co-workers of opposite sex #Fight about social media #Dating apps #Infidelity #Tracking phones #Therapist working with couples #Trust #Run for the hills #Run to the marriage counselor #Getting to therapist too late #Personal trainers #Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle #1980s #Miami Florida #Atlantic Ocean #Bermuda #Puerto Rico #Deaths #Disappearance #Planes #Ships #Vanish #Weather #Distress call #Signals fade #What happened #Grief #Loss #Change #Hospice #Sad #Closure #Stages of grief and loss #CPR #Robot mannequin #Bee Gees #Staying Alive #Dabda #Elisabeth Kübler-Ross #Denial #Anger #Bargaining #Depression #Acceptance #Shock #Numb #Ex in denial #Trauma #Guilt #Shame #Counseling #Down in the dumps #Dwell #It’s not a problem it’s an opportunity #Rediscovery of you #Your likes #A comeback story #What to keep or change about yourself #Moving forward #Parallel to your destination #Be an example for kids #Divorce can be a wonderful thing #Counter-intuitive #Lead with empathy #Safe space for children #Parents selfish #Playing games #Children need adults to captain the ship #Everyone must thrive #Momma bear #Father bear #Tips from a therapist #Don’t talk badly about ex #Long game #Kids are watching #Rippling effect #How to tell the kids #Don’t overdo it #Concise #Share your emotions #Find and present positive #Kids will mirror you #Leave it to Beaver #Don’t argue in front of the kids #Divorce counseling #Avoid manic dating #Tender #Bumble #Plenty of Fish #OK Cupid #All about the kids #Healing and growth #Self-discovery #Find yourself #Tom Hanks #Cast Away film movie #Do something different #Takes time #Amy Poehler #J.K. Rowling