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Tori Press on Art & Anxiety
If you’ve ever felt like you couldn’t find the words to express your anxiety, listen to this week’s episode of Woman Worriers, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Tori Press, creator of the popular Revelatori cartoons on Instagram and author of the new book I am Definitely probably Enough (I Think): Revelations on the Journey to Self-Love.
“The person who needs to accept me is me—and that’s where all the work of therapy has been”
Show Notes:
What’s going on inside you right now? Sometimes it’s hard to find the words. Sometimes it’s just hard to know. Therapy can help—but we can get insights from creative activities, too. This week, Woman Worriers podcast host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist and founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., interviews Tori Press—artist, author and anxious person—who left a career in graphic design and picked up a sketchbook and a set of markers. Today, her lighthearted cartoons about her experiences with mental health struggles and more have attracted hundreds of thousands of followers to her Instagram page, Revelatori. In this episode, she talks about how drawing has helped her explore her thoughts, gain insights and process feelings—and also what she has learned about therapy, living with anxiety and learning to love herself.
Listen and learn:
What it’s like to live with lifelong anxiety
Why art can be so healing
How drawing can help us process feelings we don’t have the words for
The power of looking to what you don’t want to think for inspiration—and what that resistance is trying to tell us
How getting out of our thinking brain can help us see things we might not otherwise
How physically putting pen to paper can be useful
Why it’s not helpful to pretend we’re not anxious when we are
Some of the benefits of using creativity to bring our issues to light—and of sharing that creativity with others
What to do about your anxiety—and it’s simpler than you probably think
How to question what your anxiety is telling you—and the kinds of insights doing so can give you
How humor can help healing—especially from perfectionism
What you need to change in therapy—and the answer may really surprise you
The path that the journey to self-discovery takes and when it ends
How you can tap into your own creativity
How to get a discounted subscription to the Upfinch Journaling platform
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Learn More:
> Tori Press’s Revelatori website
> Revelatori on Facebook
> Revelatori on Instagram
> I am Definitely probably Enough (I Think): Revelations on the Journey to Self-Love by Tori Press
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