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How Polymer Clay Can Keep Your Mind Positive During The Healing Process<\/span><\/strong>: The subject of using polymer clay and other hobbies as a stress management technique has been on my mind a lot lately. In fact just today I had a bit of a<\/span> conversation with a very sweet lady (Betsy) that was telling me how she started making polymer clay candle holders as a way to stay mentally positive during her battle with thyroid cancer. Here’s a link to the article page where we were chatting if you want to read more about her inspirational story: How To Make Polymer Clay Canes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Betsy’s wonderful attitude in coping with her illness reminded me of how art therapy can really help with the healing process. Here’s a couple of other stories I’ve heard recently of others who have found comfort in polymer clay…<\/span><\/p>\n A polymer clay artist by the name of Mike Devine is a New York City Policeman who looked to polymer clay as a way to help him deal with a particularly traumatic event. He needed something to do during his recovery phase. Today Mike continues to develop his polymer clay skills and says this focus really helps in coping with the many job related stresses he deals with on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n Another lovely woman and talented clay artist, Ponsawan Silas, sadly found her whole world turned upside down when her daughter was in a tragic accident that left her in need of full time care. Ponsawan says she turns to her clay “every chance she gets” to help keep her sanity.<\/span><\/p>\n Although I have never had to deal with as serious events as these, I sometimes do find myself becoming overwhelmed with daily responsibilities and have had anxiety attacks in the past. Whenever stress gets the better of me, I roll a little ball of clay in my hands and the stress starts to melt away.<\/span><\/p>\n I am wondering if you ever find yourself claying as a way of dealing with your stress? Does it help you like it helps so many others? There is so much more that can be discussed on this important topic. What are your feelings?<\/span><\/p>\n How Polymer Clay Can Keep Your Mind Positive During The Healing Process: The subject of using polymer clay and other hobbies as a… 18<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,2769],"tags":[2592],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-guests","category-pct-show-tell","tag-health-wellness-polymer-clay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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