Acrylic, anger, art therapy, DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family, inner parts, mom, paint, painting, random, secrets, Self-injury, Trauma
In Acrylic, Art, DID, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family, Multiplicity, Therapy, Trauma on June 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Late night painting
Late night painting
These two were just random late night paintings. Just kind of did them with no real point in mind except to see what happened when I put a brush to paper. The only thing in mind was feelings of an inner part, hoping that maybe painting would help. The first one was about feelings of self-harm. It’s kind of funny because there was a drawing from earlier in the year that was done in the same colors, all colors that I don’t like which was on purpose. This time they were picked at random. The red is the anger, rage, the yellow had something to do with spirits or something spiritual, I forget what the green was, I think the brown was about darkness. I want to say the green was something about grounding and perhaps the brown too.
The second painting was even more random. I think I was just about ready to go to bed when that one happened. Don’t remember much about it except it was something about feelings toward my mom. I remember listening to the sound of the brush making the red streaks that look like flowers and hearing something say it sounded like whispering. There was something about the whispering sound being all the secrets kept being put down on the paper. The red again being the anger about those secrets. I think the green and yellow represent the same things in this painting as the first.
Acrylic, Art, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, inner parts, Multiplicity, paint, painting, Pastel
In Acrylic, Art, DID, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiplicity, Pastel, Trauma on August 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm
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Thoughts of integration – Soft Pastel
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child part napping – Soft Chalk Pastel
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Representation of insiders/world – Acrylic Paint
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Part punished by persecutor part – Chalk Pastel on grocery bag
You can click on the picture for more of the stories about them but here is the summary:
The first one shows one of the insiders down in the dark in the left corner, she is trying to get through the tunnel to the light and to myself and our Internal Self Helper (represented by the single figure in the top corner). She often feels like a burden and is in a lot of pain, she was trying to think of ways not to exist anymore and the thought of integration was one at the time.
The next one is the same child part that was posted in a previous post. She was showing herself taking a nap.
The flower represents the child parts and an area of the inner world where they are often found. This was another one where I was in an observing role as several parts painted.
The last one is the part that was also in a previous post, in the previous post she was in a red dress leaning against a wall. Sometimes she is seen wearing older clothes with sort of vintage almost victorian look. I’m not sure if this part of the inner world exists or not, I know at one point it had been transformed. It used to be were a persecuting part would send her and punish her. Our ISH helped to try and free her from the persecutor and we’re all hoping she will be able to now defend herself a little better if that part comes after her again.
Art, art therapy, Assault w/ deadly weapon, Dissociation, PTSD, Therapy, Trigger
In Acrylic, Art, Colored Pencil, Dissociation, PTSD, Therapy, Trauma on July 15, 2008 at 1:07 am
