Description
The first installment in a year-long journey exploring fiber arts for healing, growth, and connection
What if your crafting could be more than just creating beautiful objects?
This comprehensive 50+ page introductory guide reveals how to transform your fiber arts practice into a powerful tool for healing, self-discovery, and personal growth. Drawing on both scientific research and lived experience, author Kathryn Vercillo shows you how knitting, crocheting, quilting, embroidery, and other fiber crafts can become intentional practices that support your mental and emotional wellbeing.
What You’ll Discover:
- The Science Behind Craft Healing: Learn about the 10 research-backed benefits of crafting, from stress reduction and pain management to improved cognitive function and emotional resilience
- Three Essential Tools: Master the foundational elements that will transform your crafting experience:
- Your Craft Journal (including alternative forms for non-writers)
- A Soothing Creative Space (adaptable to any living situation)
- Your Creative Commitment (flexible and personal to you)
- Six Practical Exercises: Engage with hands-on practices including mindfulness cues, sensory grounding techniques, and judgment-free creating
Perfect for:
- Fiber artists of all skill levels who want to deepen their practice
- Anyone seeking to use creativity as a tool for stress relief and self-care
- Crafters looking to move beyond perfectionism and embrace process over product
- Those interested in the therapeutic applications of handmaking
This carefully crafted PDF serves as both a standalone resource and the foundation for the complete Craft to Heal year-long series. Whether you have five minutes or thirty, whether you craft daily or occasionally, these tools and exercises will help you discover the transformative power of mindful making.
