Creative Arts Healing Retreat for Veterans
22 a day. At Warrior Songs, we are ever conscious of the number of veterans who take their own life each day due to the unseen burdens of war. Warrior Songs mission is to heal veterans with PTSD through music and the creative arts.
Join us;wear our shirt with pride.
Help us send one veteran to the retreat by purchasing our Veterans Arts Empowerment tee shirt,we need to sell 100 tee shirts to pay for 1 veteran to attend for the 4 day retreat.
Go to https://theartsmakeamericagreat.ecwid.com
The creative arts can play an integral part in helping veterans cope with their PTSD. Healing from PTSD requires processing the experience and the trauma, but recounting the experience in a detailed linier account will often aggravate one’s PTSD. Veterans are triggered by their memories and will try to repress them. They isolate, they avoid, they self-medicate…they do everything they can to not remember. PTSD makes it very difficult for veterans to talk about their experiences.
This is where the arts come in. You can paint a feeling, or draw the part of the story you are ready to tell. Also, when veterans show their art, they can communicate their truth without having to be the subject of the conversation. Instead of the listener looking at the veteran eye to eye, which can be dis-empowering and very uncomfortable, both the civilian and the veterans can look at the artwork, adding a layer of protection to the veteran. The creative arts allow the veteran to explore what they are ready to talk about in a way that isn’t as triggering as traditional talk therapy.
Warrior Songs is hosting a 4-day creative arts retreat for veterans with PTSD on December 6th-10th, 2017 at The Siena Center in Racine, WI. This retreat is free to the veterans selected to participate.
It is very difficult for veterans to talk about their experiences, the arts help heal.
www.warriorsongs.org
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