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Take My Hand by Sasha Porter Blue

NOVEL SOLUTIONS, INK links to art therapy projects, installations and writing thereof, of Marsha C. Porter's art therapy work with adults and children who are working through relationships with traumatic events.


OF REMBRANDT: "... this man carries a wound, and he knows it. It is the wound that comes from having given your all to a chosen path, indeed to life itself. And more, it is the wound that comes with that knowledge that despite all you have given, you are never, ever, going to fully grasp the mystery, the poignant impossibility, of your own life. Rembrandt was willing to hold the big questions without having them answered. ... He shows us the fullness of our own human condition, the pain along with the beauty, the truth and also the mercy... Rembrandt lived his life according to the promptings of the knowing, intelligent heart... the more we live from that depth, the more we are free to be who we can be, and the more life may open to a greater fullness, ever surprising... Rembrandt knew the redemptive, healing power of art, not just for those who came to his studio still to admire his work, but for his own stricken and grieving soul."
From: How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful Imperfect Self, Roger Housden


Cover photo credits - Elizabeth Lofgren

Quotes from the stories of Take My Hand

"Signing my divorce papers. How did I ever get to this point? Where did it all begin? The ending, that is... Was there a specific moment when I lost myself completely? Whose fault was it that I sank into a marital swamp that I could not pull myself out of? Does it need to be anyone's fault?"
From: "Process"

"What was it that I really longed to slip into? A new way of being present in my life, a way of being heard, of announcing my presence? Did I think it would be easy to reclaim myself from my tarnished marriage?"
From: "Silver Bracelets"