Creative Writing – Page 2 – Art Therapy with Kimberly

The Voyage of a Broken Heart | Kimberly Hetherington | Art Therapy with Kimberly

March 10, 2018June 8, 2021Kimberly

The voyage through a broken heart

At the ripe and all-knowing age of 19, I thought I knew everything about love.

January 25, 2018December 19, 2022Kimberly

Recipe for a new outlook

I hereby present the deliciously tasty: new outlook cake!

October 6, 2017December 19, 2022Kimberly

The Mexican Fisherman

As an alternative to this month’s ‘Words of Inspiration’, here’s an inspiring little fable that reminds us all what’s really important in life.

The exuberance of joy | Kimberly Hetherington | Art Therapy with Kimberly

July 15, 2017April 17, 2020Kimberly

Joy

It’s that unmistakable swell of jubilation, like a wave just before it curls and crumbles.

Winter mornings, June in Australia | Kimberly Hetherington | Art Therapy with Kimberly

June 8, 2017April 17, 2020Kimberly

It’s odd to experience winter in the middle of June. It will always be a month I cannot help but associate with warmth and summer. Before leaving for work this morning I wrapped my scarf around my neck, slipped my mittens in my pocket and grabbed my umbrella. I stood at the front door, peering […]

March 24, 2017December 4, 2022Kimberly

Is love an illusion?

Romantic love has been advertised in the same way as pharmaceutical drug commercials; when an attractive couple runs in slow motion down a sun-setting beach and a male commentator with a smooth voice starts proclaiming all the ways this ‘drug’ will improve your life. Then at the very end of the commercial in a very quiet, rushed whisper he admits the side-effects may include heart failure and imminent death. But we were too distracted by this image of perfection to allow the words “heart failure and imminent death” to resonate.

January 25, 2017April 17, 2020Kimberly

Behind filters

Life is not always as joyous as our social media profiles may make it seem. And although this is obviously not a new realization, I do think it’s easy to forget that people are struggling when we’re constantly bombarded with images of the opposite.

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” Elizabeth | Kimberly Hetherington | Art Therapy with Kimberly

January 15, 2017May 26, 2021Kimberly

Digging for jewels: The journey of self-discovery

In a way, we’re all out there doing our fieldwork on ourselves, bearing the elements and finding clues to piece ourselves together.

November 17, 2016April 17, 2020Kimberly

Wild horses

It feels like my mind is a wild horse that is being whipped into shape by a violent owner. So I sit in my stable and dream of a that time when I ran free in open fields, galloping fiercely alongside other wild horses who made me feel like there was a different way to live this life. A life that tasted of freedom, adventure and spontaneity.