Alice Riccardi Arteterapia Clinica e Laboratori Esperienziali Artlab

09/08/2026

Let’s Art 🎨🌈

01/08/2026

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We often come to creativity looking for answers.
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A breakthrough.
Clarity.
A solution.
And sometimes those things arrive.
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But more often… What creativity gives us is something quieter. It gives us psychological space.
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The kind of space that’s hard to find when we’re overwhelmed, overthinking, or stuck in survival mode.
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As an Art psychotherapist, I don’t see creativity as an escape from life. I see it as a way of changing our relationship with it.
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When we make something without the pressure of getting it right, the nervous system has an opportunity to soften.
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The inner critic quietens.
Our attention shifts from performing to noticing.
From controlling… to becoming curious.
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And it’s often from that place that new perspectives emerge. Not because we’ve forced ourselves to think differently.
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But because we’ve created enough space to see differently. Perhaps that’s why simple art-making can feel so restorative.
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It doesn’t demand certainty.
It doesn’t ask you to have the answer.
It simply invites you to stay with the next mark.
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The next colour.
The next breath.
Sometimes that’s enough.

Because healing isn’t always about finding the answer. Sometimes it’s about creating enough psychological space for a different question to emerge.
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Stay curious. Stay courageous. 🤍

28/07/2026

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27/07/2026

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"Durante le cure oncologiche non riuscivo più a mantenere la concentrazione. È allora che ho iniziato a colorare, era un modo per perdermi e ritrovare la libertà"

Kate Middleton racconta uno degli aspetti più difficili affrontati durante le cure.
La principessa del Galles ha parlato della “nebbia mentale” legata alla chemioterapia e di come, nei momenti più complessi, abbia trovato conforto nella creatività e nei colori. Un racconto personale sulla fragilità della malattia e sui piccoli gesti capaci di restituire un momento di libertà. 🥹❤

25/07/2026

Genio creativo 💫

23/07/2026

Insieme

Regulation isn’t something children learn on their own.

It’s something their nervous system borrows from ours first.

When a child is overwhelmed, their brain isn’t ready for lessons, logic, or consequences.

It’s looking for safety.
That safety is built through repeated experiences of:
• being met, not managed
• being soothed, not shamed
• having someone stay close until the storm passes

Over time, those moments become internal skills.
What starts as co-regulation becomes self-regulation.

If your child still needs you in their big moments, it doesn’t mean you’re doing too much.

It means their brain is still learning.

Save this for the hard days.

And if you want to understand the why behind this more deeply, my book Guidance from The Therapist Parent explores the nervous system side of behaviour — link in bio.

19/07/2026

Arte come Terapia
🌎🧶Friedl 🧶 Edith 🧶🌍

19/07/2026

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