Expressing oneself through art, regardless of the chosen medium, creates points of contact with what we feel, desire, and dream of. Creating art from a place of pain is a beautiful process, as we cease to be passive in the face of suffering and begin to engage with it—understanding and reframing our lives.

We all experience sadness, helplessness, and challenges. The stories we share are often filled with pain and hardship. However, it’s important to build something out of all this material, and each person should connect with their own inner strength—their capacity to create and to remain active and imaginative in the world.

The raw material is there and can be transformed. That is, the individual, guided by intuition, chooses what the organism wants and needs to live—whether through symbols, sculpture, painting, drawing, or any other form of expression that becomes a channel to access one’s creative potential and the unconscious.

Through the expression of pain in art, we gain new reference points for our own developmental processes. In this therapeutic approach, patients’ artistic productions are often displayed on the office walls in a permanent exhibition that gradually evolves and transforms with each session.