Shanie Walker
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Shanie Walker is a Holistic Behavioural Therapist, awards, and honours in Art Therapy, Dialectic and CBT. Shanie is a Psychologist and Registered Professional Hypnotherapist. Accredited Nutritionist, and Master Degree in Fitness.
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Art is a Good Medium for Expression
Tolstoy (1828-1910) stresses that art express worthy feelings. Art as emotional expression finds great exposition from the work of Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943). Croce, starts, "intuitions", the immediate knowing of impressions and transformation by active imaginative unified images or organic wholes. Intuition is regarded as expression of emotion to express the personality of the artist and evoked to the “larger soul of man” Holcombe,2015).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Depressive disorder
Joanne had struggled with depression ever since her divorce 3 years ago. Her self-esteem was at a real low point and her confidence was shattered. The depression took over her life making her sad with low moods swings. In its most severe form, she continually experienced feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and despair (Destroy Depression, 2019). She began experiencing depressive episodes that flowed over into her life experiences to a decrease in her social activities, problems with relationships, and an increase in crying (ABCT, 2019). When she was not crying, she had a desire to cry even when she could not get the tears out. The depression was now a common psychological problem, and an inclusion to most experiences in her life, affecting her quality of life. These experiences of low mood became severe enough for Joanne to seek formal treatment.
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
PTSD Treatment using Art Therapy
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder which results from the experience or witnessing of traumatic or life-threatening events. The stress resulting from traumatic events triggers a spectrum of psycho-emotions and physio pathological consequences. PTSD also has profound psychobiological links, which can damage a person's existence and be life threatening. (Iribarren, Prolo, Neagos, and Chiappelli, 2005). PTSD Trauma treatment, (2010-2014) enlightens patients that suffer trauma, at times cannot express themselves through words to explicate their post-traumatic emotions. Sometimes words are imprisoned within a person’s unconscious, restricting them from verbalizing their emotions. To heal, patients need to express their emotions, work through them, and regain a positive focus. Some patients with PTSD can find a way to heal by expressing themselves through art. Art Therapy is an accepted intervention that insures effective and efficacious treatment for the benefit of the patient.
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Mental Health
Mental health today is perceived as a state of wellbeing where individuals can realize their own potential to cope with normal stresses of life, work productively or successfully and contribute to their community (Beyond Blue, 2019). As an opinion, mental health is linked to wellness as well as illness, with some experts using phrases like “good mental health”, “positive mental health”, “mental well-being” and “subjective wellbeing”, even “happiness” to emphasize a person’s mental state and wellbeing functioning. Whereas, mental illness or poor mental health can be represented on the other end of the mental health spectrum to present mental health conditions or symptoms to affect thoughts, feeling and behaviors on a negative scale (Beyond Blue, 2019).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Colour Therapy
The first pigment of colour was invented by artist’s as early as 40,000 years ago, creating a basic palette of five colours: red, yellow, brown, black, and white. The history of colour, has since become a perpetual discovery of exploration and scientific advancement. Novel pigments have accompanied the development of art history’s greatest movements from the Renaissance to Impressionism (Gottesman, 2016). Today colour is accepted as a potent therapeutic agent with therapeutic powers for rapid healing. Recent breakthroughs in the use of visual brain stimulation by colour in the method of Emotional Transformation Therapy report rapid recovery of trauma, depression, physical pain and spiritual blockages (Vazquez, p.192). Furthermore, Chromotherapy exemplifies a significant development of science in the field of electromagnetic radiation/energy (Azeemi & Raza, 2005).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)
Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) encourages movement-based creative expression by a relational and therapeutic use of dance for the treatment of health-related psychological problems (DTAA, 2014-2019). Dance therapy offers benefits to people on medications and people affected by physical problems, depression, and physically or sexually abused (Art Therapy, 2019). Dance movement therapy is effective for enhanced quality of life and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Positive effects are found on the increase of subjective well-being, positive mood, and body image (Koch, Kunz, Lykou &, Cruz).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Emotional Dependency in Relationships
Emotional dependency creates an inner emptiness where the person abandons themselves and expects their partner to fill their emptiness and make them feel loved and safe. In emotionally dependent relationships, normal ups and downs become artificially steep. The stability of the relationship becomes compromised by one’s dependency traits. The dependent person sets up conditions for pleasure that are impossible to maintain, guaranteeing failure and the distress which accompanies it. The emotionally dependent relationship occurs with significant overlap between the physiological effects of love and addiction. Social addiction nurtures defeatist ideas that cannot be changed because of altered thinking and behaviors, disconcerting dependency. (Jantz, 2015). Factors, both, emotional and physical, contribute to certain behaviors, either within a single relationship or switching relationships. The emotional dependent individual succumbs in relationships both romantic relationships and parent-child relationships. Whereby, the dependent person does not take full responsibility for their own feelings, e.g.; nurturing painful life feelings of loneliness, helplessness over others, heartache, heartbreak, sorrow and grief. Furthermore, the dependent does not define their own inner worth, instead, makes others' approval and attention responsible for their sense of worth. Dependency relationships makes unhealthy relationship situations that causes wounded feelings of anxiety, depression, victim hurt, guilt, shame, anger and jealousy (Paul, 2010).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy offers a practical set of evidence-based techniques derived from mindfulness training together with principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to address a broad range of psychological disorders and general stress conditions. Valuable mindfulness exercises of both RAIN and STOP embeds central principles and mechanisms of mindfulness to include equanimity and impermanence. Mindfulness involves paying attention to each event experienced in the present moment within our body and mind, with a non-judgmental, non-reactive and accepting attitude (Cayoun and Elbourne, 2019). Depression, anxiety and stress disorders are among the most common illnesses in the community and in primary care. The mental health practitioner is well placed to identify and take a primary role in treatment of these illnesses, to facilitate better mental health outcomes (Zarcone, 2009). In learning to be mindful, through RAIN and STOP, the patient can begin to counter many of their everyday sufferings or symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression. Both mindfulness practices aid with peoples doubts, fears or difficult emotions to mitigate negative effects with a healing presence.
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy offers a practical set of evidence-based techniques derived from mindfulness training together with principles of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to address a broad range of psychological disorders and general stress conditions. Valuable mindfulness exercises of both RAIN and STOP embeds central principles and mechanisms of mindfulness to include equanimity and impermanence. Mindfulness involves paying attention to each event experienced in the present moment within our body and mind, with a non-judgmental, non-reactive and accepting attitude (Cayoun and Elbourne, 2019). Depression, anxiety and stress disorders are among the most common illnesses in the community and in primary care. The mental health practitioner is well placed to identify and take a primary role in treatment of these illnesses, to facilitate better mental health outcomes (Zarcone, 2009). In learning to be mindful, through RAIN and STOP, the patient can begin to counter many of their everyday sufferings or symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression. Both mindfulness practices aid with peoples doubts, fears or difficult emotions to mitigate negative effects with a healing presence.
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
