Drawing Affirmations

Make a collage of your positive traits, you can draw them or glue pictures that represent them on to a piece of paper.

Post the artwork in a place you will see it every day, by your home computer, on your bathroom mirror, or take a picture of it and use it as the background for your phone.

Reading them daily can help you focus more on your positive characteristics and help reduce rumination on intrusive thoughts.

Post it Note Collage

  • Suggested materials: post it notes, marketing materials, assorted ink pens, assorted highlighters.
  • Substitute and use materials readily available to you.

  1. Tear up a post it note, flyer, or other disposable material and place it randomly on a page in your note book.
  2. Outline the torn pieces in pen, and then discard them. Fill in each of the outlined spaces with repeated marks.
  3. Try to choose different marks for each of the outlined pieces.
  4. Fill in the white space with scribbles or another pen/marker or highlighter.