The Mindfulness Coloring Book
The Adult Coloring Book for Anti-Stress Art Therapy
byEmma Farrarons
A fun and unique pocket-size coloring book designed to channel stress into relaxing, creative accomplishments
In today’s busy world, finding a moment of peace and calm can be a challenge. Mindful coloring is a simple yet powerful practice that combines the proven, time-honored tradition of thoughtful meditation with the growing popularity of adult coloring books, and shows that any activity, done right, can be an exercise in mindfulness.
In The Mindfulness Coloring Book, accomplished illustrator Emma Farrarons presents 70 intricate and beguiling patterns to help you color your way to tranquility. Here are flowers, leaves, butterflies, and birds alongside rolling waves and kaleidoscopic designs.
Perfectly sized to fit into a pocket or handbag, and printed on high-quality paper that will ensure hours of bliss, The Mindfulness Coloring Book is ready to help you de-stress wherever you go. So take a few minutes out of your hectic schedule to reset and refresh with mindful coloring—and relive the days when your biggest concern was staying within the lines!
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Can’t wait to start coloring? Download a sample page!
Can’t wait to start coloring? Download a sample page!
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“A stress-busting coloring book.”—The New York Times
“Free of any distracting themes, full of soothing waves and geometric patterns, this mindfulness-oriented coloring book will pack an extra punch of calm.”—Huffington Post
“It is easy to get lost in these beautiful images!”—Washington Post
“The soothing flowers, butterfly, bird, and wave designs give you a moment (or longer) to recharge your batteries.”—Reader’s Digest
“Life is basically kind of stressful. This small, adorable coloring book can help you unwind and relax.”—ApartmentTherapy.com
“One of the best coloring books out there.”—Huffington Post
“Farrarons is right about the anti-stress angle. Plus it’s been a lot of fun.”—Boing Boing
“This little tome should become a popular favorite with busy adults.”—San Francisco Book Review
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978-1-61519-296-0
$59.70 US
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The Mindfulness Coloring series
Emma Farrarons is a French illustrator and graphic designer. Born on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, Emma grew up in Paris. She illustrates and designs books, posters, and stationery. She was trained in illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art and École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. She completed a textile and printmaking course at Capellagården – School of Craft and Design in Sweden and has a particular love of pattern and fabric print. She is inspired by French, Scandinavian, and Japanese design. When she is not drawing and designing, Emma enjoys cooking, sewing, traveling, and practicing mindfulness. She lives in London with her husband and son.
“A stress-busting coloring book.”—“Free of any distracting themes, full of soothing waves and geometric patterns, this mindfulness-oriented coloring book will pack an extra punch of calm.”—“It is easy to get lost in these beautiful images!”—“The soothing flowers, butterfly, bird, and wave designs give you a moment (or longer) to recharge your batteries.”“Life is basically kind of stressful. This small, adorable coloring book can help you unwind and relax.”—“One of the best coloring books out there.”—“Farrarons is right about the anti-stress angle. Plus it’s been a lot of fun.”—“This little tome should become a popular favorite with busy adults.”—978-1-61519-296-0$59.70 USTo order, please contact our distributor, Hachette Book Group , and reference ISBN 978-1-61519-296-0.
Coloring Book For Teens Anti-Stress Designs Vol 4
This Coloring Book For Teens Anti-Stress Designs Vol 4 by Art Therapy Coloring immerses you into the world of fashion with teen coloring pages of Boho necklaces, Native American inspired jewelry, diamond rings, and Paris. This teen coloring book is fullof fabulousdesigns with a fashion emphasis. There are entire coloring sheets devoted to feathers, dream catchers, coolclothing and hats, and geometric patterns that look likefabrics. These coloring pages for teens will ignite your creativity. Coloring Book for Teens: Stress Relieving Designs Vol 4 is for any teenwho loves to color and who loves fashion- or anyone who is young at heart!
Here at Art Therapy Coloring, we create coloring books for teens that have all the attraction of the adult coloring books but with thematic designs that will appeal to teenagers. We believe that coloring is not just for young children – coloring is for everyone!
Coloring Books For Teens
Over thirty coloring pages created for teens Helps teens to be calm and relaxed A variety of designs that include fashion, flowers, mandalas and geometric patterns. For use with colored pencil, gel pens, fine tip pens, etc. Designs are one side of page and blank on the back High quality 60# white paper Designs are tailored to teens 10% of the proceeds benefit pancreatic cancer patients and their families Art Therapy Anti-Stress Coloring Books For Teens
Coloring in adult coloring books is relaxing and meditative and has become a popular activity for adults and teenagers. Coloring puts you in a happy mood. A regular coloring practice promotes a general sense of well-being. The amygdalarelaxes when you color. The amygdala is the part of the brain that controls the “fight or flight” response and feelings of stress and fear are produced here. Your brain is able to relax by taking a break from worry and stress. Coloring also boosts the production of dopamine, which is the hormone that creates feelings of pleasure. Your brain is producing chemicals that make you feel good. Did youknow that you could feel so good by coloring in an adult coloring book?
Coloring may not be as creative as drawing something yourself, but it is a great way to spark your creativity. Looking at a blank page can be intimidating for some people. Everyone has creativity within themselves, but they may have forgotten how to be creative and are afraid to try. Coloring books for teens provide a safe space in which you can indulge your artistic desires. You don’t have to worry about what to draw. Your finished project is going to look great.This may be the confidence boost that you need to explore your own creativity.
Whether you want to stimulate your creativity or you just wantto color, order your copy of Coloring Book For Teens: Stress Relieving Designs Vol 4today and experience theinspiring worldof coloring in teen coloring books for yourself! This teen coloring book makes a great Christmas or birthday gift for any teen, tween, or older girl!
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Coloring Book For Teens Anti-Stress Designs Vol 1
This Coloring Book For Teens Anti-Stress Designs Vol 1 by Art Therapy Coloring includes detailed and intricate designs similar to the designs in our anti-stress coloring books for adults. Teenagers like to color complex designs too! This collection of designs is chosen especially for teens. It contains artwork that is younger and more tailored toteens than our anti-stress coloring books for adults.
There are a variety of designs that celebrate things teenagers enjoy in this Coloring Book For Teens Anti-Stress Designs Vol 1. This art-centered teen coloring bookis fun to color and is perfect for any teenager. Great gift for birthdays, Christmas, or any time of the year!
Art Therapy’s Anti-Stress Coloring Books For Teens
Lots of Coloring Pages Tailored to Teens (More than 30 designs) Reduces Stress Similar to Meditation Lots of different designs that include mandalas, geometric, zen doodle, etc. Works great with colored pencil, gel pens, fine tip pens, etc. Designs are almost full page with 1/4 inch margin around the edges We use 60# quality white paper There are a variety of designs that fit most teen’s tastes We give 10% to benefit pancreatic cancer patients and their families Anti-Stress Coloring Books For Teens
The teenage years should be all about having fun before the responsibilities of adulthood begin. But being a teenager is not always easy. Teenagers are dealing with emotional stress on a daily basis in their family lives, in their social relationships, and in their academic responsibilities. Teenage brains do not fully develop until they are in their mid-20’s. Teenagers are dealing with the responsibilities associated with entering adulthood without a fully developed adult brain! They need to have something to relieve stress just as adults do. Coloring in anti-stress coloring books for teens is a fun and positive way to provide that stress relief.
Coloring is similar to a meditative experience. It can make youfeel calm and relaxed just like meditation does. A habit of coloring daily can produce positive results that can turn into long-term benefits. Coloring is similar to a meditation practice and you get beautiful artwork out of it too.
Coloring is a fun social activity. It may not be quite as much fun as riding a roller coaster, but it is perfect for hanging out with friends. Everyone will quickly gather around and start coloring if you bring a stack of coloring sheets and markers with you! If you want to attract new friends, bring some coloring books for teens and start coloring. You will have a group of people gathering around you in no time! Have fun and begin a daily coloring practice by ordering your copy of Coloring Book for Teens: Anti-StressDesigns Vol 1 today! This teen coloring book makes a great Christmas or birthday gift for any teen, tween, or older girl!
Benefits of Anti Stress Adult Coloring Books
Anti stress adult coloring books provide many benefits, such as:
Adult coloring books increase focus Adult coloring books are meditative Adult coloring books are therapeutic Adult coloring books help to reduce stress Adult coloring books are great for social activities “
Experts are questioning the therapeutic benefits of adult coloring books, one of 2015’s biggest and perhaps most-unexpected art trends, widely touted for its stress-relieving benefits.
According to Jo Kelly, president the Australian and New Zealand Arts Therapy Association, however, adult coloring books are no replacement for an in-the-flesh art therapist.
“An arts therapist is a qualified, trained individual who helps people and uses creative processes,” insisted Kelly to ABC. She admits that by encouraging people to set time aside for their own enjoyment, adult coloring books have their benefits, “but to sort of suggest that it’s a sort of creative art expression, you’re actually using other people’s designs—why not make your own?”
Publisher’s Weekly traces the current popularity of coloring books for adults back to 2012, when Art-thérapie: 100 Coloriages anti-stress, by Hachette Pratique, was published in France. The first book to really hit the mainstream, however, was Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt & Coloring Book, currently Amazon’s number one best-seller in self-help books.
The follow-up from the so-called “queen of coloring,” Enchanted Forest, was released in February, and a third volume, Lost Ocean, is slated for an October release. Even fantasy author George R.R. Martin is getting in on the action, with plans to release a Game of Thrones coloring book.
“We’ve never seen a phenomenon like it in our thirty years of publishing. . . . Just can’t keep them in print fast enough,” Lesley O’Mara, the managing director Michael O’Mara Books, which has no less than 24 adult coloring book titles, told the New Yorker.
The San Jose Mercury News recently counted coloring books as part of an “ever-growing list of kid things co-opted by adults (video games, mini golf, Legos, Pez dispensers),” but adult coloring books are often marketed based on their therapeutic value.
There is Color Therapy: An Anti-Stress Coloring Book, and Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Patterns, Amazon’s top seller in Graphic Design Color Use. The Zen Coloring Book series, which includes Color Me Happy and Color Me Calm, is actually authored by art therapist Lacy Mucklow, with art by Angela Porter.
“We imagined the books would appeal to adults looking to relax. But we never expected the responses we’ve received from people battling serious medical conditions,” editorial director Jeannine Dillon told PW of the Zen series, which sold over 275,000 copies over just six months this year.
Susanne Fincher, art therapist and author of the Coloring Mandalas series, sees coloring books as a useful supplement to art therapy treatment. They “can empower a client to manage thoughts and feelings on their own with the positive activity of coloring, instead of, for example, overeating or abusing substances,” she said to CNN.
The PTSD Survivors of America, in particular, have embraced the trend, hosting a nationwide “Color Across America for PTSD Awareness” event on August 2, National Coloring Book Day.
Erin Maynard, the organization’s president, credits coloring books with counteracting the hyperactivity of the region of the brain called the amygdala, which controls the fear response. “Coloring actually reduces the activity of the amygdala, so that’s part of the reason that it helps calm you down,” she told the Lancaster Bee.
“Adult coloring is absolutely a growing trend and consumers are really taking to the idea,” Matthew Lore, of the Experiment publishing group, which released The Mindfulness Colouring Book in January, said to CNN. “Not only is it calming and good for your health, it’s just fun!”
But how much can coloring books really do for your mental well-being?
“It’s a nice technique really that some art therapists sometimes use as a way to get started with someone, but art therapy is a lot more involved than that,” Jane O’Sullivan, who runs the masters in mental health program at the University of Queensland warned ABC. “I think if someone was to say coloring-in books are art therapy, [that] is not accurate.”
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