CZT Jennifer Marchand writes... As a mental health professional and registered Canadian art therapist specializing in trauma recovery, my focus has always been on grounding healing work with creativity, embodiment, and culturally responsive care. Over the past decade, I have been integrating the Zentangle Method into trauma therapy across a diverse range of contexts and cultural settings as a powerful stabilization tool, particularly by combining it with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and the Flash Technique. What I have witnessed, time and again, is that Zentangle offers clients an accessible, safe, and empowering way to fully engage in trauma...

You may recall that our dear friend Bijou wrote 24 new Bijouisms for our 2025 Bijou Be Well series. We released a new Bijouism for 21 days straight in May, and our community loved them.  But wait... that means there were three new Bijouisms that were not released in May...  Today, we release the last one of those three! Celebrate Bijou's final wisdom for 2025 is simple, but not always easy to make space for... celebrate! For many of us, celebrating is an expectation multiple times a year... birthdays and holidays. And then there are personal milestones that feel worthy...

Thiele writes... I first heard the mantra, “What you are not changing, you are choosing,” around this time last year. This really resonated with me as I was in the midst of many life transitions (marriage, relocation, and changing jobs). This mantra would challenge me to evaluate the things that were no longer serving me and give me some control in how I built this new phase of life. I could be deliberate about each decision – big or small. And if I stayed my course, rather than turning left or right at a crossroad, there was still intention. I could...