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Therapy is Fun.
Therapy is More Than Talk.

Play is one of the best ways develop curiosity. When we turn on our curiosity switch, we connect to what scientists call the “seeking system”, a complex system that promotes life itself. It is the seeking system within our nervous system, our collective unconscious, our biological drive to maintain life, that sends us out to find new resources, to uncover the way forward, to nourish and find safety.

Play therapy is a historically recognized activity for both children and adults. It is both a verbal and nonverbal way to explore. By exploring with curiosity, we climb out of the stuck places where our behavior has hurt others or ourselves. We stimulate neuronal growth in new areas of the brain. We experience emotional shifts. We find new words for experiences that previously were beyond expression.
All mammals devote time to play. In therapy we experience how much healing and growth can occur in the sand tray or with a brush in hand. Creative therapies are not about learning to be good artists, they are about allowing energies and processes to emerge when the seeking system is engaged. Playing is serious business!

If you were a rhinoceros,
I still would be your friend.
And if you were a platypus,
our friendship would not end.
I’d like you as a walrus,
camel, cat, or kangaroo.
It doesn’t matter what you are–
I’ll still be friends with you.
– James Stevenson

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Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible. - Jean Shinoda Bolen — Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation. - Plato — You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation.
– Plato

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To search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets. - Maria Montessori — To search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets.
– Maria Montessori

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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. - A. A. Milne — People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
– A. A. Milne

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This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. - Henry David Thoreau — This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
– Henry David Thoreau

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Therapy is Fun. Therapy is More Than Talk.

Therapy is Fun.
Therapy is More Than Talk.