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Jennie Powe Runde
Expressive Arts Therapist
+ facilitator
(BBS #46457, REAT #1726)

Expressive arts for mixed folks


Exercise: The Body as a Vehicle for Liberation
multiracial woman wearing flowy blue outfit, moving as if dancing in a field as sun sets behind her In the world of mental health, the...

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Naming and (re)Claiming- what's in a name?
text on a neutral background with red, pink, and blue accents stating: A good question: Who gets to decide? As a person of mixed...

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Education- Learning and Unlearning
Image a card held in my hand with an African Proverb written on it that reads: What you help a child to love may be more important than...

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Getting Good Sleep
picture of a print of a sleeping child craddling a heart as a pillow Sleep- the first seed to plant for self care. Can we pause for a...

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Taking Good Care of Yourself with 5 SEEDS
How do you take good care of yourself? Growing up in the late 80s and 90s there was a lot of information out there about what we needed...

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Honoring the Transition
Before moving into private practice, I used to work for a large Bay Area non profit. This agency worked with what was called "emotionally...

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Cultivating Fearlessness
Showing up and letting your art be seen by others takes courage. I've been lucky enough to sit with folks courageous enough to bring...

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Moving through everyday trauma and triggers
It all happened very quickly. The other day I was running an errand, driving along on a beautiful day with the windows down and music...

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How do we "do" self care?
How do you take care of yourself when you're feeling sad or "off"? Most of us have ways that we get through our toughest times- this...

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Moving forward with intention
I'm not sure how you feel about goal setting- I know it can be an energizing and exciting experience for some, while being anxiety...

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Letting go (& holding on)
The end of the year is a time for reflection and reassessment. And quite a year it has been.... I like to imagine these transition points...

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Are you an Artist?
I have a question for you- do you consider yourself an artist? There's a quote I love, often attributed to Pablo Picasso, which goes...

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An easy way to connect to joy
One of the things I love and appreciate about expressive arts therapy is that it gives us an opportunity to look more deeply at a...

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The Opportunity in Uncertainty
in order to allow ourselves the opportunity to grow, to change, to learn new things, we have to be brave enough to stand in a place of vulne

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Deciding to go to therapy
Have you ever reached out for support, and instead of finding a helping hand, you found...nothing? Or, even worse, the person that you...

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What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
When people ask me what I do, the response is often , "Oh...that's sounds interesting!", then they look at me expectantly, waiting for me...

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