Below are some articles, books, and blogs written about the relationship between tattooing and personal growth to get inspired!

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Tattoos and Healing: Considerations from an Art Therapy Lens (2023)

MARIELLE CARPENTIER

https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1687&context=expressive_theses

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Could This Be Magic? Tattooing and Liberation Work (2020)

TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nu82nLwn8Sl_tCu28De7bdTQuCMfK-6X/view

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Tattoo Narratives and Counseling (2019)

DANNY LANE MCCARTY

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4894&context=etd

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Are Tattoos a Form of Therapy? (2020)

FIONA FLETCHER REID

https://happiful.com/are-tattoos-a-form-of-therapy

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What is Tattoo Therapy? When Tattoos Make You Feel Better (2022)

KATIE M.

https://www.wengood.com/en/personal-development/love-yourself/art-tattoo-therapy#:~:text=Using%20tattoos%20as%20therapy%20to%20soothe%20psychological%20wounds&text=That’s%20where%20getting%20a%20tattoo,art%20inked%20onto%20your%20skin