Because I handle most of the customer calls that come to the magazine, I am in a unique position to talk to people about beading and the effects it has on their lives. Over and over again, people have told me about how beading helped them through a difficult time in their life. We've received letters from people who started beading when they were recovering from cancer, and I even had a phone call from a woman who started beading as a way to cope with the death of her child. I am always in awe that beading can have such profound effects on people's lives.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I can't decide what is so theraputic about beading. Is it the act of creativity? Or maybe it's simply having something positive to concentrate on? Or is it a combination of the two? Regardless of the reasons, it's clear to me that beading has definite benefits aside from simple entertainment. Why do you think beading has such theraputic effects?