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It’s not always easy to express your thoughts, emotions, and mental health struggles. That’s why some people benefit from therapeutic approaches that promote healing through non-verbal practices like drawing, finger painting, and song—Holistic Library I think one can also benefit from verbal poetry practices as well. For instance, creative writing most helpful are reflections, memoirs, reciting your poetry is a verbal approach yes, but until you try it you won’t grasp its freeing healing powers—I Am below phsycological wall art.com

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Art & music therapy provides a creative outlet for expressing feelings of anxiety, helping us visualize process our worries I also find poetry therapy as well I write and then recite it back to myself…. shall there be fingers snapping at the end of this recital? I just must wait and see There is this, it executes not any lines or clears up at any time its streams from deep in my throat something that resembles me yet it bruise’s, black and blue it sleeps stark against my neck pounds like a stricken drum if i’m the moon, you are the dark side of the moon listening in, peering, a piercing feme fierce and violent an arduous lifestyle? I have not led I see a road and sky ahead in the corner out yonder still I ponder my voice has wedeled down to just a whisper not to wake it so afraid, so tired, two peas in a pod tumor growing neath the sod and so, I go out on a ledge walk on eggshells slowly not to awaken the a p p e n d a g e

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Robert Gorelick

Date: 5/8/2025 12:58:00 PM

Snappen' fingers and slappen' the bongos! Unfurling thoughts and feelings out in a tapestry of words, music, or dance is healing for the artist and audience as well. It also entertains and bolsters the spirit. Finely written. Robert

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/9/2025 11:39:00 AM

I enjoy your humor and hope you caught mine. I done it all, i'm very busy with my lifestyle, one that is varied and engaging. In the quiet moments a hole in the soul remains and that's the space poetry fills. ty

Jay Narain

Date: 5/8/2025 11:51:00 AM

Nice poem.

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/9/2025 11:36:00 AM

Ty, Jay!

Silent One

Date: 5/8/2025 7:17:00 AM

Dear Anaya, the poem is not just about therapy, it is therapy, embodying the very process it describes: using art to face, feel, and navigate pain. Many will relate to the feelings you have expressed here.. I am pretty certain that is not you reading it.. or am I mistaken?

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/9/2025 11:46:00 AM

This is very considerate of you to say this is therapy, you know a busy lifestyle doesn't rid of the hole in the soul, that space fills with poetry. SO, it's close, yet not exact, i'm not there yet and so i use the voicemaster which i think makes a difference, easy for the listener, gives the eyes a rest. TY for listening, i appreciate a true recital master as you, poet, and look forward to more of your poetry!

Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 5/8/2025 6:38:00 AM

Dear Anaya, I came for my art therapy and traversing the raw, tangled journey of healing through art, music, and poetry. How creative your expression that gives voice to what aches beneath the surface, offering relief when words alone can’t hold it all. Even when your voice is silent, your art is powerful-a brave, necessary outlet for anxiety and hope. Keep writing, keep reciting; your story matters, and fingers are snapping for you. Spring Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/8/2025 4:00:00 PM

Glad to have you Dr., I try and keep to the point, with a little style hopefully, and just long enough not to bore the audience with my striving sense of something other than, well we'll see. All art qualifies and if you listen, i'll go on. Ty Daniel for your encouragement, any offering helps! ~ Anaya

Yann Rolland

Date: 5/7/2025 5:53:00 PM

so brilliant poetry, we have to manage so much things, creativity helps other i guess enjoyed your touching poem

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/8/2025 2:15:00 PM

I guess as well, who knows what one poet interprets comparing notes all of the time, Yann. It's freeing up our souls with forgiveness and empathy i think are more important than integrity ~ ,)

Duke Beaufort

Date: 5/7/2025 5:44:00 PM

Anaya, you are so on target with your ideas and this work. This is perhaps the ultimate beauty of poetry...it reflects our inner struggles and gives us an opportunity to say things to ourselves and for our benefit. I've often thought about intrusive thoughts...it's similar to PTSD. Things come back out of the blue to haunt us. It's quite miraculous to be able to forgive tormentors and watch all the intrusiveness fade. A remarkable thing really. BTW, my fingers are snapping now!!

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/8/2025 2:13:00 PM

When i think of recitals i think of the bohemian beatnik system of snapping fingers, still we can have the experience in upscale cafes or hole in the walls, lol. PSTD sounds right, similarities in these diagnosis-s. TY for joining in the forgiveness train ~

Tom Woody

Date: 5/7/2025 4:59:00 PM

Good for a read and listen. This is multimedia art at its best. Of course, I'd rather hear the Anayalator but hopefully soon

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/7/2025 6:11:00 PM

Ty. and I hear the jackles howling. Ah, my superhero name,.

Paige Hind

Date: 5/7/2025 4:29:00 PM

Wow! This is deep- I listened to the audio like you suggested. The audio, painting, writing, blended together so much more raw, but so beautiful. <3

I Am Anaya
Date: 5/8/2025 2:16:00 PM

Oh dear, didn't mean to skip over you, sweet Paige. Ty