The Winding Path to Joy: An Art Therapist’s Life in Jeju
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
An art therapist and eco-artist, Jeong Eun-hye, recounts her recovery from isolation and depression during immigrant life in Canada to a renewed, grounded life on Jeju Island in her essay collection "Live Your Best Day". The book traces her journey through what she calls "liminal space" (a threshold period of confusion and possibility) and argues that wandering, imperfection, and small everyday joys—what she calls the “7 happiness”—are where real life and healing happen. Blending therapeutic reflection with ecological practice, Jeong uses Jeju’s forests and sea as both studio and clinic: lying among tree roots, making mandalas from plastic beads washed ashore, and placing personal pain into larger natural cycles so it becomes at once cosmic and insignificant. The book invites readers to listen to inner lacks rather than suppress them and to cultivate gentle recovery through art and nature.
