The Creativity Cure - 9781451636796

A gifted psychiatrist and her husband, a premier hand surgeon, offer an insightful and innovative mind-body plan to combat depression and anxiety by exploring your creative potential.

Husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present a deeply satisfying and highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into your creative self. Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure—Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift—leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, you can create the mindset and habits necessary for happiness and positive change.

The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.