Color Your World

Doodling away anxiety

Hello, Gorgeous!

While I’ve said repeatedly that I won’t discuss world events here, there are some days that are so impossibly sad that it seeps in. So for today at least, let’s consider taking time off to doodle or scribble or draw for a while.

You know me best as a writer/author/former celeb makeup artist/beauty historian/beauty expert. But I’m also a co-founder of a national nonprofit and a trained art therapist. I feel like makeup art and crafting and art all fall under the same creative umbrella.

Therapeutic art

Several times a month, I teach therapeutic art classes, including to to adult children of Holocaust survivors (and beauty classes to Holocaust survivors).

Last year, I created a program called Doodling Away Anxiety. The idea behind it is to use doodling to distract yourself from your stressful world, even for a short time each day. In case you’re wondering, doodling is a serious tool for improving your mental health. Way back in 1938, the Royal School of Medicine published …