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A review by goldandsalt
Feel Something, Make Something: A Guide to Collaborating with Your Emotions by Caitlin Metz
3.0
Very pretty to page through. The mix of warm creamy white and pink paper? Delicious.
But what I was hoping for was a lot of art and a little bit of feelings, and what this delivers is a lot of processing your feelings and a little bit of making art. I've been in therapy and practicing yoga for long enough that the somatic self-help aspect of this wasn't all that interesting to me. The art part is basically getting it down on paper in a slightly more freeform way than just journaling, plus blind contour self portraits. Which are rad - I love blind contour - but I didn't really get anything new from the exercise is presented here.
So not really for me. But that said, I'd buy this for an artsy teen in a hot second.
But what I was hoping for was a lot of art and a little bit of feelings, and what this delivers is a lot of processing your feelings and a little bit of making art. I've been in therapy and practicing yoga for long enough that the somatic self-help aspect of this wasn't all that interesting to me. The art part is basically getting it down on paper in a slightly more freeform way than just journaling, plus blind contour self portraits. Which are rad - I love blind contour - but I didn't really get anything new from the exercise is presented here.
So not really for me. But that said, I'd buy this for an artsy teen in a hot second.