Hands Past and Future: Art Therapy Activity.

• April 1, 2016
• by:  Editor
• in:  art for mental health art for recovery art therapy activity dbt art hands future hands past healing art michelle morgan art mixed media art transformation art
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I found this cute art therapy activity on Pinterest, from Emerly Arts, and decided to create my own version to share.

The exercise can be used during a time of transformation, or just to help make sense of your past vs present self.

Trace your hands and fill them with images that represent your past (left hand) and what your future hopes are (right hand.)

Here are my hands…

Hands Past.

 

 

Hands Future/Present.

 

I found the activity very healing given the huge changes going on in my life; motherhood is a huge transformation that redefines who we are, and what we hope for the future. As you can see from above, some drastic changes in my life have/are taking place and I enjoyed expressing them in my journal.

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Tara shuet

I love this piece!



Marian Gargan

Love it. I have been searching for something simple for my group albeit colourful too. Thanks.



Sara Harpin

Did this in 2 recovery groups. They loved it after putting some brainstorming to work! I am confident my family recovery group will enjoy it just as much! Thanks.



lacey

I love this! I I have done this for almost a year now. In my head, as a way to help me remember what I stand for, what my priorities are, and who I am. Each finger on my right hand stands for different things. I think about it when I’m feeling a little lost. I am not religious, so doing the prayer hands during yoga used to feel strange. I reclaimed that posture by thinking of that: the left is the past, the right is the future. The center, aligned with my spine and the center of my body is the space in between. Right now. All we can do is take life a second at a time. We can’t change anything that has already happened, we can, however, control how we feel in the present and how we plan to proceed.



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Amanda Robins

Thanks for this. Lovely idea. Cheers!
Amanda



WENDY Stephens

Love love love this idea! I’m so excited to do this in an adult recovery group. I did it for myself and it was very helpful to actually see that i have come further than I even gave myself credit for. THABK YOU
WENDY



Nikki

How cool is this. I’ve been sketching hands (my left one mostly) and painting them and decided to make collage out of them plus add a verse of one of my relevant poems. The past and future idea is excellent! I just might add the ‘present’! 🤩



Linda

I love this! I have made art with hands in art groups but this takes it farther and I an so excited to try it! thank you!