Your accountability partner for self-care.
Recess for Healers
A self-care entry point into expressive arts therapy, built specifically for other healers and helpers.
Not another training, not another thing to get right, but a space to put down the part of you that’s always holding someone else, and find your own edges again through image, music, movement, metaphor and serious play.
This offering is sustained through donations.
(See below for donation and sign-up)
Recess for Healers is an expressive arts hour to commune with other healers by releasing stress built up throughout the week and replenish with self-care that’s meaningful. This hour reset takes place on the 1st Wednesdays of the month at 9am PST / 12 pm EST. This drop-in hour is open to all time zones. This event is hosted by Logan Brantley, LCSW and Libby Ellison, B.A., Expressive Arts Therapist.
This is a donation based offering, we appreciate all donations which can be made on the main event page.
Disclaimer: This hour is geared toward support and self-care, it is not clinical supervision or therapy. All donations are non-refundable.
Why Creativity in Healer Self-Care Matters:
According to 2023 Simple Practice survey 52% of therapists feel burnt out.
54% noted compassion fatigue as a factor towards their burnout
In an analysis by of data from about 23,000 people - frequent arts participation and cultural attendance are linked to lower mental distress and higher life satisfaction.
One study by Drexel found 75% of the participants’ cortisol levels lowered during their 45 minutes of making art.
In a systematic review of arts intervention and Creative Arts Therapies, CATs saw more than 90% improvement in studies mood and stress.
