This workbook is meant to be fun, to distract you from the pain of your disease, and to help you creatively explore your chronic illness.
About The Workbook
The Fine Art of Waiting is a 91-page workbook filled with over 25 projects to entertain and engage you during those endless hours of waiting. This tool can be utilized to support your creativity and the artist within during times of pain. You don’t have to be an artist to benefit from the magic of art therapy.
Why art? Creativity can help lower your perception of pain by giving you a meaningful distraction and shifting your mental focus away from the pain you might be experiencing. It’s not only a distraction, but a way to alter your mood and tune into a more relaxing state, so your pain doesn’t overcome you.
This workbook was created to help you gain more insight into yourself, decrease your stress, and change your relationship with your illness and pain into one of transformation, possibility, and hope.
Illustration with text 'The Fine Art of Waiting' and 'Wellness Through Creativity' featuring a blank human outline, colored silhouette with positive words, a pencil, and a paintbrush.
A spiral-bound book titled "The Fine Art of Waiting: Wellness through Creativity" by Stacey Ballard on a textured white surface, accompanied by a white candle and colorful twistable crayons.
Spiral-bound book open to table of contents on marble surface.
Book page titled "Project: My Monster" discussing introspection related to personal fears and challenges, and suggesting the removal of these fears through creative expression.
Page from a coloring book showing a skeleton with arrows pointing to various parts labeled "Here." The text "Where does it hurt?" is at the top. The page is titled "Sample for Coloring."
A page from a book titled "Project: I Am Enough" focuses on introspection activities. Text suggests connecting with self-acceptance, strengths, wellness, and self-awareness. Spaces for writing reflect on personal abilities, strengths, and natural talents. Background includes a marble surface.
A page from a book titled "The Fine Art of Waiting" with the sentence "I didn't think I could....." followed by phrases like "Move away from my family," "Find peace with my illnesses," "Travel to the East Coast by myself," "Stopped being so hard on myself," and "Survive being on a ventilator."
Two open spiral-bound notebooks on a wooden surface. The left page has a template of overlapping circles, and three colored twistable crayons resting on it. The right page displays various colorful drawings and art pieces, including human figures and abstract designs.
Open spiral-bound workbook titled 'Project: My Body' with exercises on body image and introspection on pages 36 and 37. The pages contain prompts for imagining an ideal body, addressing negative thoughts related to body image, and using art to explore feelings. Instructions include writing down strengths and using color expression.