Quarantine and Anxiety - Coloring Books
Hello everyone,
I hope that this post finds you all healthy and safe. The weather is getting warmer, but this does not mean that we need to stop doing the essential - wash our hands and not touch our face!
At the end of each therapy session, I am given homework. Last week, my homework was to color. I have a few adult coloring books and I have enjoyed them. I used to be better at it. I would color each day for about a half hour. Then, life got in the way - actually, I let it get in the way.
I have attempted each day to give myself some time to color. Yeah, I have failed each time. It's harder as the days goes by, because there is always something else that I should be doing - taking care of the kids, cleaning up after the kids, cleaning, laundry, dishes, meals, decluttering, getting things organized...
Coloring can have a calming effect, especially when the coloring page requires you to be more meticulous and precise. It makes you escape whatever is causing anxiety and stress. I did enjoy it and really want to get back to it, but it's hard to find that time to actually get it done.
I read somewhere that there are cafes that are geared towards coloring. There are even coloring groups. It would be cool to be part of one of those. I do have some good coloring books, but once this is all over, I will get better coloring pencils. I will use up the ones I have and then get better ones.
I did try to get into painting but with a spouse who is excellent at painting - it's quite intimidating. I may get myself some cheaper materials from the Dollar Tree once I am able to get out. I love how a canvas can just be a free space into what my head is going through that day.
It's getting harder to see that things will get back to some kind of normal. I miss those days where I could roam around and just write all day and study all day at Starbucks. Now, who knows when that will happen. And when we are allowed out, how will it be?
And so, I will take out my coloring books and pencils and get back to that calm space. I know that it won't take all of my anxiety away, but if it can take it away for, at least, twenty minutes - then that will be twenty less minutes of just not having anxiety.
Do you color? Do you paint? Do you enjoy it? What have you been painting or coloring? Please share and let's built our community!
Remember to wash your hands, do not touch your face and stop the spread of Covid!
SM
I hope that this post finds you all healthy and safe. The weather is getting warmer, but this does not mean that we need to stop doing the essential - wash our hands and not touch our face!
At the end of each therapy session, I am given homework. Last week, my homework was to color. I have a few adult coloring books and I have enjoyed them. I used to be better at it. I would color each day for about a half hour. Then, life got in the way - actually, I let it get in the way.
I have attempted each day to give myself some time to color. Yeah, I have failed each time. It's harder as the days goes by, because there is always something else that I should be doing - taking care of the kids, cleaning up after the kids, cleaning, laundry, dishes, meals, decluttering, getting things organized...
Coloring can have a calming effect, especially when the coloring page requires you to be more meticulous and precise. It makes you escape whatever is causing anxiety and stress. I did enjoy it and really want to get back to it, but it's hard to find that time to actually get it done.
I read somewhere that there are cafes that are geared towards coloring. There are even coloring groups. It would be cool to be part of one of those. I do have some good coloring books, but once this is all over, I will get better coloring pencils. I will use up the ones I have and then get better ones.
I did try to get into painting but with a spouse who is excellent at painting - it's quite intimidating. I may get myself some cheaper materials from the Dollar Tree once I am able to get out. I love how a canvas can just be a free space into what my head is going through that day.
It's getting harder to see that things will get back to some kind of normal. I miss those days where I could roam around and just write all day and study all day at Starbucks. Now, who knows when that will happen. And when we are allowed out, how will it be?
And so, I will take out my coloring books and pencils and get back to that calm space. I know that it won't take all of my anxiety away, but if it can take it away for, at least, twenty minutes - then that will be twenty less minutes of just not having anxiety.
Do you color? Do you paint? Do you enjoy it? What have you been painting or coloring? Please share and let's built our community!
Remember to wash your hands, do not touch your face and stop the spread of Covid!
SM
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