With a history of depression and anxiety, I learned of the therapeutic benefits of art-making through personal experience and exploration. My final depressive episode occured in 2010, for which I was on medical leave once again. This is when I began exploring a different treatment path – what I would later come to understand as Holistic, that included all the parts of me including my faith – a path that would shape the rest of my llife.

In 2017, I wrote a book on my healing journey in the hope of helping others who struggle through the established medical treatment system when faced with mental health troubles.

A Joyful Life How to Use your Creative Spirit to Manage Depression. I blogged about it for awhile at the same website: MicheleSwiderski.com

I have recently dipped my big toe in the pool of Art Therapy by informally helping women process difficult feelings through making art, preferring more intimate, one-on-one sessions. I enjoy it a lot and see it as a personal christian ministry.

Thank you for reading,

Michele