Art and Expressive Therapies
Practical Strategies for Trauma Healing
Discover how art and expressive therapies, like painting, journaling, dance, and music can be powerful tools for trauma healing. For women overcoming abuse, these creative strategies provide safe, gentle ways to release emotions, reconnect with self, and invite God’s peace into broken places. Learn how expressive arts therapy helps restore hope, rebuild identity, and support emotional healing after abuse.
1. Art Therapy: Release emotions without words
Painting, drawing, or even coloring can help process deep emotions safely. Art creates space for your heart to speak when words feel too heavy.
2. Journaling: Write your way to clarity
Journaling helps survivors untangle thoughts, reclaim their voice, and bring pain before God in a healing, private way.
There is a physiological aspect when writing out the tapes that run through your head that actually gets the tapes to stop playing.
3. Dance & Movement: Healing through the body
Trauma often lives in the body. Gentle movement, dance, or stretching can help release stored pain and bring freedom.
4. Music & Worship: Let healing flow through song
Music lifts the spirit and invites God’s presence into broken spaces. Singing, listening, or creating music is deeply restorative.
Music can reach deep into the soul past all the gunk.
Prayer + Creativity: Inviting God into the process
When creativity meets prayer, healing becomes sacred. Invite the Holy Spirit into your art, journaling, or music.
“Come to me, all you who are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest.”