Learn how to improve your mental health with crafting, how art-making reduces stress and anxiety and helped many of us cope during the global lockdown.
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Crafting for Mental Health and Stress Management During Lockdown
1. CRAFTING
FOR MENTAL
HEALTH
How art-making reduces
stress/anxiety, boosts our mood &
helped many cope during the
lockdown
in the UK showed ‘a significant
increase in wellbeing’and reduced
levels of anxiety and depression in
participants.
(Crone et al., 2018)
STUDIES OF PRESCRIPTION
ART SCHEMES...
a 113% increase in unique product
purchases between March 19, 2019 -
March 25, 2020, and March 19, 2020 -
March 25, 2021. And Craft Bundles
were the five most popular products
sold during the lockdown.
DESIGN BUNDLES
EXPERIENCED...
(during the lockdown) gave me the pause
I needed to refocus and re-energize. Plus,
it helped to have all sorts of bright and
colorful craft projects to decorate whilst
staying at home.
(Lavania Olewa Oluban: www.arloriverrex.com)
IMMERSING MY ENERGY INTO
CRAFTS...
including crafting has been shown
to lower cortisol levels, indicating
stress reduction/relief in response
to creative self-expression.
(Walsh et al., 2007)
ART MAKING...