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Expressive Arts with
New MomsAndrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW
Blending Three Dimensions into the Elixir of Healing –
Therapist as Alchemist (A. Schneider, 2016)
CELEBRATION OF MOTHERHOOD and INTEGRATION/RESTORATION
of BODY/MIND/SPIRIT
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
PMADs
TRAUMA RECOVERY
Art Therapy and Expressive
Arts Interventions� What’s the difference between the two?
� Expressive Arts can include: music, drama, visual arts,
play, sandtray, movement
� Today’s focus: expressive arts interventions with new
moms (using image-making with art media)
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Expressive Arts as Healing
Pathway� Innovative, cutting-edge, trauma-informed
� Helpful for ALL ages for those healing from depression,
anxiety, PTSD, trauma, grief and loss
� Particularly helpful for new moms working through
PMADs
Cathy Malchiodi, Art Therapist� “ Images are the midwives between experience and
language. The miracle of image making is that>it helps
birth a story that holds countless memories and
emotions”
� Malchiodi, C. (2002) The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on
Art’s Transformative Powers for Health and Well-Being,
Shambala, pg. 24.
Image Making and Ancient Cultures/ Civilizations
on Through to Modern Times
� Art used across time as a form of image making to
depict celebrations, milestones (cave paintings, hand-
crafted objects, etc.)
� Useful as a pathway to create meaning of joyful
moments but also understanding that which is
traumatic (L.A. riots, DV shelter)
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Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts
Interventions
� Field of trauma and mindfulness through expressive arts
� Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
� Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger
� “Neuro-sequential” approaches to trauma recovery (Bruce
Perry) Focus is on process, not necessarily finished product
� Process is: reclamation of self, restored hope, continuity of
the narrative of the story of trauma/loss, creating meaning
out of crisis
“The core of traumatic reaction is ultimately
physiological, and it is at this level that healing
begins” Peter Levine
Brain Physiology in Trauma Response
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The Triune Brain
Neurosequential Model for Sensory-Based
Trauma Intervention (C.Malchiodi, 2014)
� Three Basic Levels of “Art Expression”
� Kinesthetic/Sensory (lower brain)
� Perceptual/Affective (limbic system)
� Cognitive/Symbolic (cortical areas)
Kinesthetic-Sensory Level
� Music
� Rhythm
� Sound
� Senses
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Perceptual-Affective LevelThe “feeling” of the worry or trauma in the body (Body
Map)
Cognitive/Symbolic Level� Telling a Story (mastering the trauma through narration)
through creative expression ( a narrative in art or
image)
Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy
Key Elements
� Respond to traumatic events through sensory approaches to self-regulation
� Uses a neurosequential approach to stabilize the body’s responses
� Identifies body’s reactions to stressful events and memories
� Uses arts and play-based interventions to establish and support safety and positive attachment
� Strength-building through arts therapies to normalize and enhance resilience (C. Malchiodi, 2014)
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Expressive Arts for New Moms
� Helps to nurture the nurturer by incorporating self-soothing strategies on a kinesthetic/sensory level
� Can be used in group format to build community and support or with family /older children/ spouse
� Helps to master trauma by narrating story of traumatic birth, perinatal loss, experiencing PMAD
� Container for worry and fears
� Memorialize baby who is stillborn; miscarriage; perinatal loss
� Visual representation of vision board/mandala for going into birth with strength and courage; identity formation of new mother (Blessingway)
� Honoring and celebrating body, fertility (belly casts, sculptures)
� Connecting story of attachment with mother and baby and repairing any disconnect resulting from PMAD
PMADs as traumatic
� Whether surviving a PMAD, traumatic birth, intrusive
thoughts, infertility, perinatal loss
� Visceral experience
� “The Body Keeps the Score” Bessel van der Kolk
Creative Arts Address these Components of
Trauma Recovery (C. Malchiodi, 2016)
� Self-regulation
� Right Brain Dominance
� Integration
� Meaning-making
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Expressive Arts as Sensory-Based
� Grounding
� Anchoring
� Mirroring
� Entrainment
� (C.Malchiodi)
Why Expressive Arts Help
� Art Interventions employed once client is in early recovery
� Art is the process of reclaiming control (agency) over that which seemed out of reach during trauma
� Helps with narration of story to master trauma in once-removed way (displacement)
� Use of kinesthetic and emotional brain to access cognitive processing
(triune brain concept)
Creativity � Just as important as good nutrition, exercise, good
sleep and positive social supports
� By engaging the sense of sight, touch, smell, movement – stories are translated in the process of image making
� When words are not enough
� Helps improve memory retrieval, organize and verbalize, lowers stress, blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, improved mood and improved ability to communicate feelings
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Rainer Mara Rilke
� “You must give birth to your images. They are the future
waiting to be born.”
Mandalas
Body Map
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Body Maps� Helps to identify the “felt” pain that has been
internalized on a somatic/sensory/perceptive level from trauma (i.e. from traumatic childbirth, perinatal loss, etc)
� Assists with narration of the traumatic event for synthesis of processing trauma on the 3 levels of the triune brain
� Stress Relieving Process
� Empowering for client to assign color, shapes, and meaning with the image-making
Sculpy pendants/footprints to Commemorate Baby Loss
Sculpy clay� Sculpy clay
� Acrylic paints
� Memorializing baby loss
� Envisioning Fertility,
Safe/Serene Birth
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Guatemalan Worry Doll� Clothespin
� Yarn
� Markers
� Tacky Glue
Chippewa Dream Catcher� Paper plate
� Yarn
� Beads
� Feather
� Scotch tape
� Helpful for containing
Anxiety and insomnia
Mother Masks/Shields
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Inside Me / Outside Me
Mask/Self-Portrait
Masks/Shields� Represents the visual “felt” sense of the Self that is
presented to the outside world and the Self which is
hidden underneath
� Allows for opportunity to link color, symbols, shapes
and expressions with identifying feelings connected to
depression, anxiety, trauma, shame, loss,
perfectionism>also strength, courage, fortitude, and
transformation
� The myth of June Cleaver/The Perfect Mom can be
dismantled and perfectionism addressed
Visual Journaling
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Visual Journaling
Visual Journaling
Positive Affirmation Manifestation Cards
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Mandala
Hands Collage to Build Compassion, Community,
Courage, Connection
Connection in Community
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Providing a Safe Place to Create
“It takes a village to raise a child”>it takes a
community to embrace a mother
Identity Expansion and Tree Branches and Roots
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Examples of Mother-Baby Art
Georgia O’Keefe and her opening, flowering blooms
Mother-Baby Joy
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Flower as cervix analogy (Georgia O’Keefe)
Mary Cassatt Mother and Child works
Mary Cassatt
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Moche sculpture of birthing mother
Early representation of midwifery
Pre-Colombian sculpture of giving birth
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Roman Tableau of a Midwife and Mother
Venus of Willendorf
Sculpture of Pregnant Mother
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Figurine of Pregnant Mother
Belly Cast
Mural
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Sculpture
Ink Print
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Nursing Mother
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Sleeping Mother Nursing Baby
Giant Vagina Sculpture in front of L.A. Superior Court
Building
Watercolor of Mother Giving Birth to Herself
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Andrea Schneider, LCSW and Cathy Malchiodi,
PhD, ATR
Resources� Hand-out with website links/literature/ resources
Andrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW
� Contact information:
� 150 N. Walnut Avenue, Suite J
� San Dimas, CA 91773
� Email: [email protected]
� Website: andreaschneiderlcsw.com
� Phone: 626.241.6812
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Experiential Exercise� Mandala Collage
� Worry Doll