In trauma's aftermath, words often fail. People know what they feel, but not how to say it. They carry images too heavy for language — flashes of sound, color, and memory that replay silently.
Across Israel, survivors, evacuees, and caregivers are discovering a different vocabulary: clay, paint, collage, thread, stone.
Mental Health First Aid Israel calls this movement hands that heal — the growing use of art therapy and creative expression to restore emotional balance and meaning in communities fractured by war.
It is not about creating masterpieces. It's about touching life again — literally — through the fingertips.
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