For me my art has been like a dream or dreams. I can remember what I drew in Kindergarten, Grade 5 and forward until now.

I sometimes look back and understand why I drew what I did when I did.

It also gave my thoughts some 'significance and names' when I was little. I remember my kindergarten teacher telling me I created a flower on the page and sure enough when I looked down there was a flower!

I am a bit stuck as far as doing Art at the present time probably because I am helping my grandchildren do their art. It's still enjoyable but less therapeutic.

I have drawn so many of the issues that I am dealing with and have plans to have my own website to help others.

I have read 'Artists Way' and been in a group but when issues started coming up I felt the group was no longer appropriate but it really helped in my therapy! I mean it was difficult, hard, emotional painful but ultimately helpful. My therapy ties in well with left brain, right brain. I just don't think I would be able to be as clear minded if it didn't.

I started out about 8 years ago with a few 3B, 4B & some 6B pencils and some decent porous paper. Cost probably about $10.00. Oh and an artist's eraser. I would apply the pencil and then erase. Images would appear that I was working on at the time. In those days it was mostly to accept, not be in denial about my mental/emotional issues.

I felt like it gave me affirmation. It's hard to explain but I knew because I knew that it was true. I didn't need to do all the techniques in Artist's Way after that because it just flowed like a waterfall from my finger tips. Then I took a year of school in Web and CD Rom Development with a focus on graphic design in order to try to help myself and others with my kind of condition.

My actual therapy is based on a type of EMDR that uses only one eye at a time but when I tried to upload the site before on another forum it didn't take.

Hopefully something here rings true for someone else. I hope to do a blog like you Reflection. It looks very interesting.