Meet Jean Voice Dart, MS, CAPT, Expressive Arts Specialist. In the soon-available book, The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Life, Jean shares her transformative tool, “Immersive Creative Arts: a Three Minute Trauma Transformation,” which helped her turn personal trauma into a lifelong passion for healing. Dive into her inspiring journey, discover the power of the arts for emotional and physical wellness, and learn how to unlock your own potential for growth and joy.
The Wellness Universe (WU): Hello Jean, please tell us about yourself and what inspired you to write your chapter in the book The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools For Life.
Jean (JVD): Thank you so much. I am thrilled to be included in the fifth book in the best-selling series, The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Life. I am participating in this collaborative effort because one much-needed tool was missing to create a comprehensive wellness guide—the expressive arts.
I love the arts. I live in sunny California near the ocean with my husband, Matt, and dog, Pumpkin. When I’m not engaging in the creative arts, I walk near our home, enjoying the cool ocean breeze.
As a young child, I was drawn like a magnet to the arts (music, writing, dance, theater, visual art, storytelling, etc.). However, I suffered multiple physical and emotional life traumas, which forced me to seek immediate alternative and unorthodox methods of healing. I embraced the transformative power of the creative arts as a safe and effective tool for wellness. The arts catapulted me into discovering my life passion and purpose as a licensed expressive arts therapist, certified arts practitioner, certified coach, and credentialed teacher, witnessing a lifetime of miraculous healing. I received multiple certifications and awards and found my niche.
For more than forty-five years, I assisted hundreds of clients of varying ages with emotional or physical challenges such as generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, TBI, coma, neuropathy, paraplegia, domestic or sexual violence and assault, autism, memory loss, chronic pain, aging, ADHD, speech disorders, stroke, hearing loss, blindness, depression, and more. Moreover, I witnessed my miraculous transformation, shifting from trauma to triumph and living each day with joy.
WU: What tool do you share in this book, and what can we expect to experience as a result of using this tool?
Jean (JVD): The tool is “Immersive Creative Arts: A Three-Minute Trauma Transformation.” This tool uses sound, drawing, movement, and creative visualization as an immersive arts experience. This is the tool that saved my life. You will need paper, courage, a safe space (your eyes will be closed), and your favorite writing utensil (pen, marker, pencil, etc.).
This immersive arts tool opens a door to facing and embracing fears, imagining your limitless beauty and power, and shifting from pain to gain.
WU: What can you offer someone who has tried multiple wellness treatments and never found any relief from a lifetime of chronic suffering?
Jean (JVD): Well, that was me. I experienced chronic pain, trauma, and suffering since childhood. Moreover, I was grossly misunderstood and lost. But I took a chance on the arts and discovered precisely what I needed.
Using an expressive arts tool does not mean you will be blowing into a tuba or performing on stage in a ballet costume. You can engage in expressive arts while sitting on the bus with absolutely no props or equipment, or you can produce a mixed media painting with multiple creative tools and equipment. The choice is yours. Expressive arts therapy uses adaptable tools repeatedly proven to open doors to health and wellness for people worldwide. Coaches or therapists offer handy, safe, powerful exercises to help others feel, reveal, and heal daily, quickly, and repeatedly.
Some have everything they need to help them heal. Others are looking for more. I offer something safe, noninvasive, immediately accessible, and scientifically proven effective.
If you love the arts, this might be what you are looking for. You will find links to valuable, life-changing gifts from me and the other contributing authors in this book. And if you need help, reach out to me. I’m here for you. You are a powerful, positive world changer. The future is yours to create, and the expressive arts are here right now to help you make miracles happen.
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I found your interview article intriguing, and I want to learn more. Jean, I can’t wait to read your chapter and learn more about your 3-minute trauma transformation tool, which you will share with the world. Thank you for sharing your love and light so brightly.