Art as Healing: A Journey Through Trauma Recovery

Trust After Trauma #43-Art as Healing: A Journey Through Trauma RecoveryIn this heartfelt conversation, we explore how creative arts therapy can become a powerful pathway for healing after trauma, offering expression, release, and connection beyond words. Through art, movement, music, writing, and creative exploration, many people discover safe and meaningful ways to process emotions, calm the nervous system, and reconnect with themselves. This episode gently reminds us that healing does not always happen through talking alone—sometimes creativity opens the door to hope, self-discovery, and transformation. Questions we'll discussHow can creative arts therapy help people process trauma in ways that words sometimes cannot?What are some simple creative practices people can begin using at home to support emotional healing?What changes have you witnessed in people as they reconnect with themselves through creativity and self-expression? Franki DeSaro is a Creative Arts Therapist, Certified Spiritual Director, Visual Artist, and Co-Founder of Light to Earth Sanctuary. She recently earned her Master’s in Art Therapy from New York University and holds a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Franki specializes in trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming art therapy with families, adolescents, and children. Alongside her clinical work, she is an abstract landscape painter whose artistic practice explores natural pigments, botanically dyed textiles, and the relationship between art, healing, and spirituality. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, world travel, silent retreats, and journaling. Fun fact: Franki adopted two bonded kittens from Brooklyn, NY, named Alaska and Aurora, and has visited the Taj Mahal twice!Stay connected to Franki:[email protected]: www.frankidesaroart.squarespace.comInstagram: @frankidesaroart @frankidesaro@lighttoearthLinkedIn: Franki DeSaroSupport the showThe host of the "Trust After Trauma" podcast is Janet Grace, a passionate leader who founded Grace’s Place Foundation in 2020. As a Domestic Violence advocate & teacher, she saw a deep need for long-lasting empowerment programs to help them feel a strong sense of themselves, so they never go back. She has been a servant for God since childhood, feeding the homeless in Chicago, then in Los Angeles. She has served as a team leader on numerous Mission trips around the world, including Mexico, Africa,Nepal & South America.Janet Grace is a Spiritual Mentor, Teacher, TEDx Speaker & Author, Sacred Retreat Leader & Philanthropist as an Ambassador of Love for humanity.More at: www.GracesPlaceFoundation.org &  www.JanetGrace.Love