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Essay Collection: Crochet/Craft As Therapy
From Many Years Spent Exploring the Healing Benefits of Handcrafts
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A Conversation About Crochet Saved My Life
Full disclosure: absolutely playing with the just-went-viral audio tool NotebookLM
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Self-Care Exercise: Crochet as Part of Your Sleep Routine
Six-step daily crochet exercise with tips and ideas for self-improvement around issues of insomnia
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Crochet Heals: Interview with Akua Lezli Hope
"It is the doing that is glorious. To be able to do, to create, is an affirmation."
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Craftfulness Book Review: Mend Yourself by Making Things
"Wool shops draw me to them like a magnet; their pigeon holes overflowing with all those irresistible coloured balls of promise.”
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Blind Crocheters and Visually Impaired People Who Crochet
Plus Liza's Story, an Excerpt from Crochet Saved My Life, and more about the benefits of crafting
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An altar, a tree, and 100 mini mandalas all crocheted to raise awareness about depression, suicide, and crafting to heal
3 Unique Contributions to Mandalas for Marinke Crochet Art Project
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Does THREADSTACK Offer Some of the Leading Benefits of Crochet/Craft?
Research Says Creativity and Calm are Leading Benefits of Crochet but Social Connection is Right Up There On That List As Well!
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A great-granddaughter looks back at how her grandmother crocheted her life story
Interview with Dana Browne about archiving the work of Fannie Mitchen
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Hands-On Activities as Preventive Self-Care for Total Wellbeing
"By taking just half an hour at some point during the day to meditatively stitch something for myself or someone else I bring my mind and heart back to…
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Crochet as Therapy in Academic Research
Or how my own lived experience ultimately made me a reference-able expert in a developing niche ...
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Crochet Heals: Interview with Athena Field
“Crochet calms the mind, soothes the soul and makes the black dog dance in a pretty little dress.”
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