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Slow Crafting: An Interview with Writer/Artist Yarrow Magdalena
"I find it therapeutic to have reminders of my ability to create and recreate around me."
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Crafting Meaning: How to Find Belonging through Craft
Meaning vs. happiness, feeling good vs. doing good, and how to embrace a crafty community to increase meaning in your life
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Margaret's Story of Crochet Healing Depression
"It was all backwards – I didn't realize I was depressed until I started to feel better, and I started to feel better when I started to crochet.”
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7 Health Benefits of Crafting for People with Age-Related Memory Loss
Crochet for Late-Stage Alzheimer's and protective benefits of crafting for the brain
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5 Ways Rag Rug Weaving Improves Mental Health
Unraveling Stress: The Therapeutic Pathways of Creative Crafting
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How Craft Fits Into the Slow Living Movement
Slow Yarn, Mindfulness Crochet, Pomo Basket Weaving and more ...
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Sophie of Wallflower Weavings Shares The Mental Health Benefits of Weaving
"When you get into a rhythm, you don’t notice the hours passing and that your many thoughts are accompanying the growth of your design, your anxieties…
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A Scientist Shares How Knitting Helped Her After Having a Stroke
"Knitting provides me with a chance to focus my attention on one thing. My mind is attentive to the yarn, the needles, and the project at hand. This is…
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Knitting Heals: Interview with Stroke Survivor Rebecca Robinson
Followed by related excerpts from my research and writing for the book Crochet Saved My Life: The Mental and Physical Health Benefits of Crochet
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Thoughts on Letting Go, Releasing, and the Importance That I Stop "Shoulding" On Myself
Learning to let go of my own high expectations for myself, my own self-judgment and self-criticism, my own sense of internal obligation has been one of…
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Benefits of Crochet for Ten Symptoms of Depression
Crafting to heal + 5 more beautiful, colorful crochet mandalas to raise awareness about depression survival
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Depression in Schizophrenia, in People of Color, Depicted in Dance ... Honored by Beginner and Expert Crocheters Alike
Looking back at five more contributions to the Mandalas for Marinke project that raised awareness about depression, suicide, and crafting as therapy.
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