“I’m so grateful I gave ART therapy a try.

As a child, I always loved the beach, unfortunately, everything changed after a drowning incident at 7 years old. After being revived, I now had a tremendous fear of going into the water pass my knees, let alone swimming! I always wanted to get over my fear. I attended swimming classes, but it was horrifying, I became terribly disappointed and discouraged to the point that I stopped trying to swim.

However, the urge to learn how to swim came back when I started dating a wonderful man who is now my husband. He loves the water like a fish! He encouraged me to swim even though I felt very safe with him, the fear stopped me from progressing. This was extremely bothersome for me, I loved seeing him enjoy swimming so freely. I wanted to feel that comfortable in the water. So I signed up for swimming lessons again, it wasn’t going well until my therapist suggested an ART Therapy session, that is when I was released from this haunting drowning incident. I felt so empowered to overcome a fear that was so strong. It has given me such a feeling of freedom from something I struggled with for years. Since I’ve learned how to swim, I’ve had the pleasure of swimming in a large river with my husband while vacationing in the Czech Republic, I’ve enjoyed floating in a pond in Italy, but the most importantly, now swimming has become a daily exercise routine for me and my husband at our local pool. I could have never imagined being so comfortable in the water I highly recommend this treatment. It has changed my life forever.

Thank you, Andrew from challenging minds for introducing me to Art Therapy.”