Book Club - Art Cure and Your Brain on Art
5/20/202650 min
In this bonus book club episode Paula joins me to discuss two great books about art, health and well-being. Both books take a deep dive into the research into how the arts impact on our health, well-being and education.
Mia has read the New York Times bestselling book: Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. This is a summary of research across different areas of the arts and how the impact on health, welll-being and learning.
Paula has read Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt who has conducted a huge amount of research in the field of arts and health.
We share our thoughts on these books and how the relate to knitting and what might be happening in our brains when we knit.
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Self-Care One Stitch at a Time
If you'd like to use learn more about how to use knitting intentionally as part of your self-care, we have the audio course for you. Self-Care One Stitch at a Time is an audio course based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which guides you through how to use knitting as part of your self-care. You can now listen to the introductory session for FREE and it now includes our webinar The Healing Power of Knitting.
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First 90 secondsMia Hobbs· Host0:00
Before we get started with the podcast, I just wanted to let you know about a couple of changes we've made to our audio course, Self-Care One Stitch at a Time. This is our 11th session audio course based on the psychological principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, otherwise known as ACT, and it helps you learn about how to use knitting intentionally as part of your self-care. We've recently moved this to Podia, which is the platform we use for our webinars, which has allowed us to do two new things. So first of all, we've been able to give you access to the introductory session of Self-Care One St- Stitch at a Time for free. So if you've been curious about the course and aren't sure if it's for you, you can now listen to the introduction for free on our website to try it before you buy. Secondly, we've decided to add our webinar, The Healing Power of Knitting, to the audio course. W- which means that when you buy the audio course, you also get the webinar He- The Healing Power of Knitting as part of the bundle. That means that alongside the session we already have that covers the research into knitting and mental health, you can watch our updated version of that content in our hour-long webinar as well. If you'd like to find out more and to listen to the introduction for free, you can go to creativerestoration.org and click on courses, or follow the link in the show notes. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a book club episode of the Why I Knit podcast. My name is Dr. Mia Hobbs, and I'm here with