Creative Calm: Drawing, Painting and Gentle Crafts for Mindfulness and Inner Peace

Creative Calm is a book for those seeking soul enrichment and a more calming gentle life through a creative practice.

Written and illustrated by qualified art therapist Sandy Cousens, this holistic guide explores the various ways we can connect with our more creative selves and find peace and fulfilment in doing so. Touching on all areas of life, this guide is for all those who feel they lack purpose, and would like to nurture their more creative selves.

The book features step-by-step guides to practical art and craft projects designed to connect through mindfulness, meditations, mantras and journaling exercises. 

The seven chapters all speak to the seven chakras, and the book takes the reader on a journey through the self as they explore the various ways they can generate feelings of self-love through art and self-care.

Each chapter explores how that creative energy of that chakra can be explored in the physical world, with drawing practices, watercolour practices, and gentle crafts.

Throughout, Sandy's unique wisdom and perspective guide the reader on a journey of calming creative discovery towards a sense of peace, while learning new skills or brushing up on dormant ones. 

Features:

• Mixed media mindfulness and creativity guide

• Includes 7 chapters each with several projects to create

• Learn the Chakras while exploroing several multimedia techniques

• Published 1st October 2024

• Softcover

• Dimensons: 28 x 20 x 1.2 cm

• 128 Pages

About the Author 

Sandy Cousens is an artist, art therapist, educator and healer based in Sydney, Australia. She created The Calm Studio on the Gold Coast, where she hosted workshops and events, sharing her love of art as a means of healing and self-expression. Join her Instagram account to learn more.