1,000 pieces well into the wee hours.
I finished it in just a few days. I felt
possessed by the soothing, methodi-
cal action, almost like I’d been hypno-
tized or spent hours meditating.
Robyn Breen, a dance instructor at
Misfitstudio in Toronto, knows the feel-
ing. At a family gathering years ago,
Breen was reintroduced to puzzles and
fell in love with their soothing effect.
“I thought, Whoa, I feel really good
when I’m doing this. I feel really chill,”
she recalls. Breen suffers from anxiety,
and when she was having worrisome
thoughts about an upcoming trip to Ni-
caragua, she turned to puzzling instead
of prescription medication. It worked,
and jigsaws have since become an es-
sential part of her daily routine.
Susan Vandermorris is a clinicalrd.com 115