Expression through art / painting as a therapeutic tool:

Main purpose: protecting the soul from the body that is fading while providing a place of security, personal connection, trust and respect for the person and the creative process.

Painting is a way of expressing a rich inner world, even when the soul is imprisoned in a paralyzed body. With a trembling hand, with a single finger, with a brush held in the mouth or head, with poor vision or total darkness.

The painting makes the painters move, fly, dream, dance, get angry, cry and also laugh.

This is hope - this is light.

The therapist's presence in this process creates the unique space of art therapy in a three-way relationship: patient - materials and creation - therapist.

Mira Ziv, art therapist, Grabsky Rehabilitation Center.