About this episode

Rachel Duncan and Bonnie Walchuk discuss how art therapy can help address money stress through creativity and non-verbal expression.

EPISODE SUMMARY What if the reason you can't talk your way through your money stress… is because money doesn't live in words? In this episode of The Money Healing Club podcast, host Rachel Duncan, certified financial therapist and art therapist, sits down with her dear friend and fellow art therapist Bonnie Walchuk to explore how creativity, imagery, and non-verbal processing can crack open the emotional side of your financial life in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes can't reach. They dig into what art therapy actually is (hint: stick figures are very welcome), what happens in a real session, and why making something ugly might be the most healing thing you can do today. 💬 "Our minds, bodies, and hearts are holding a lot — art therapy is about getting what's going on out on paper, in front of us, so we can look at it a different way." — Bonnie Walchuk ✅ Key Takeaways You do not need to be "good at art" for art therapy to be deeply transformative. Ugly art can be the most healing art. The three C's to avoid in art therapy: Criticism, Comparison, and Critique of yourself and others Making a visual image of something (grief, money stress, the inner critic) externalizes it…

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Duncan

Guest: Bonnie Walchuk

Topics covered

• art therapy
• money stress
• creativity
• emotional healing
• non-verbal processing

Keywords

• art therapy
• money stress
• creativity
• emotional healing
• non-verbal processing
• ugly art
• self-doubt

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