{"id":17588,"date":"2025-04-23T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:48:23","slug":"art-as-healing-azhees-creative-mental-health-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/?p=17588","title":{"rendered":"Art as Healing: Azhee\u2019s Creative Mental Health Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding, <strong>Azhee<\/strong> has used <strong>art-based interventions<\/strong> to promote mental well-being, emotional expression, and community connection. In a context where mental health remains stigmatized, art helps people open up, heal, and feel seen.<\/p>\n<p>Through music, storytelling, and creative workshops, we offer safe spaces\u2014especially for women and youth\u2014to share their experiences and find strength in expression.<\/p>\n<p>This recent session is just one example of how music and art are at the heart of our work. For Azhee, healing doesn\u2019t always start in clinics\u2014it often begins with a song, a story, or a shared moment.<\/p>\n<p>#artishealing #healing #mentalheal #azhee<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-17588-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/azhee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Social-Work-Dep-April-2025-Music.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/azhee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Social-Work-Dep-April-2025-Music.mp4\">https:\/\/azhee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Social-Work-Dep-April-2025-Music.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding, Azhee has used art-based interventions to promote mental well-being, emotional expression, and community connection. In a context&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azhee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}