The following is a written version of a presentation I gave during a women's spiritual retreat weekend. This is the story of how I am using art therapy to heal my troubled heart and move forward so that I can eventually create art to heal the spiritual and psychic wounds of others. -- Peg Gerrity Part 1: Childhood AbuseGrowing up in a family ...

I am responding to Wendy Romero's comment to my second blog about ''Dealing With the Mental Illness of a Beloved,'' where she wrote that so many of us walk this path--whether it is with a child, husband, wife, brother etc. who may or may not have a diagnosed disorder. What has struck me so strongly about the responses I've received from ...