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An accessible, encouraging and inspirational self-help book that unites a broad selection of creative pursuits with the subject of living well with chronic illness.
Crafting a Path through Illness offers ways to live an enjoyable, meaningful life despite chronic ill health and shares how the associated experiences and perspectives can have a valuable impact on creative output. It is both a how-to and a why-to for living creatively with chronic illness. Through its many insights: * Learn how arts and crafts can affect your physical and mental health. * Discover how the arts have been used alongside medicine over the centuries. * Feel inspired by other disabled and chronically ill artists and crafters, past and present. * Be guided in how to connect creatively with the space around you and the wider world, including other people, when isolated by illness. * Find tools, hacks and suggestions for making creativity more accessible to you. * Have a go at the suggested ideas and projects.
Chronic illness is, by definition, ongoing. Patients need to find ways to be fulfilled and live well amidst their symptoms. Not only does this book offer ways to achieve that but it also shows how living with the experiences and perspectives of ill health can have a valuable impact on creative output and the uses that can have within the wider community.
Contents
Introduction: From my story to yours; Part I: Being ill, the creative way: A creative live; the feedback loop; Artistic responses to illness; Part II: Creative healthcare: An historic viewpoint; Crafty prescriptions for physical conditions; Creative calm for happier health; Part III: The art of felling larger than your illness: Creative purpose; Making a difference; Creative connections; Part IV: Crafting you path: Spinning gold from straw; Making room for creativity; Getting the tension right; Stopping up the energy leaks; From pushing to pacing; Good practice; Create-ability; Fallow times and beyond; Part V: A dose of inspiration: Changing perceptions, not circumstances; Moving with the rhythms of restriction; Going without; Going within; Listening to the voice of illness; Maximising your environment; Flights of fancy; Borrowing from others; Contradictions and combinations; Gathering the yarns of your life; Part VI: Creative directions: Home-friendly arts and crafts; Charity and kindness projects; Online resources; Metaphors and imagery to explore; Postscript: Recovering from perfectionism. References and further reading
