Trauma Informed Expressive Arts with Eve Andry (@embody.create.heal)

The Restorative Pulse

Eve Andry is an artist, a teacher, a mother, a sister and a daughter. She is also a survivor of childhood sexual violence. As a teenager Eve discovered artistic expression as a powerful way to express her feelings and emotions. Years later she discovered the sacred practice of Trauma-Informed Yoga and embarked on a lifelong journey of reconnecting with her body. For the past eight years, Eve has passionately shared her gifts of Therapeutic Art Facilitation and has made it her mission to gently introduce movement and mindfulness within her practice with students. She has also made it her purpose to offer her work within Trauma-Informed frameworks and is committed to always learning how to create more safe and inclusive spaces.

In this episode she breaks down:

• the need for creativity in trauma healing+our relationship to creativity
• different forms of creative expression and benefits of creativity,
• the difference between traditional art making and art as a way to heal
• how can we soften the creative experience
• important considerations for making the art experience trauma-informed.
• integrating art and body based modalities

Listen to the end when Eve shares a 10 minute trauma informed mindfulness practice with us.

You can find Eve on Instagram at @embody.create.heal and at www.eveandry.com