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Chronic Illness, poetry, Spirituality, Writing and Healing 1/3/12 Chronic Illness, poetry, Spirituality, Writing and Healing 1/3/12

Heart Goals

Encountering despair, grief, and envy--with compassion.

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Poetry Therapy, stress, trauma, Writing and Healing 12/9/11 Poetry Therapy, stress, trauma, Writing and Healing 12/9/11

Longing for the Light

How do we keep hope when the world is so full of suffering?

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Caring for the Caregiver, Spirituality, Writing and Healing 11/23/11 Caring for the Caregiver, Spirituality, Writing and Healing 11/23/11

Thanksgiving Panic

How to be in the moment when expecting guests for Thanksgiving.

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artists, The Art of Ficition, Writing and Healing 11/17/11 artists, The Art of Ficition, Writing and Healing 11/17/11

The Dream of Art

To engage in the practice of art is to be able to tolerate not controlling the outcome.

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Art and Healthcare, Writing and Healing, Writing and Self-Making 10/26/11 Art and Healthcare, Writing and Healing, Writing and Self-Making 10/26/11

Voice Lessons

How learning to sing is like learning to write: constriction cuts us off from our power.

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Chronic Illness, Poetry Therapy, stress, trauma, Writing and Healing 10/7/11 Chronic Illness, Poetry Therapy, stress, trauma, Writing and Healing 10/7/11

Miracle Cure

The writing cure is not a miracle cure, but it can go along way to help us heal.

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Writing and Healing 8/22/11 Writing and Healing 8/22/11

Everyone Has a Story

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Chronic Illness, Medical Humanitites, Spirituality 7/27/11 Chronic Illness, Medical Humanitites, Spirituality 7/27/11

The Alchemy of Illness

What it feels like to be overtaken by illness, and ways to think about the illness.

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Art and Healthcare, cancer care, Chronic Illness, Poetry Therapy, Writing and Healing 6/24/11 Art and Healthcare, cancer care, Chronic Illness, Poetry Therapy, Writing and Healing 6/24/11

A Communion of Sorts

A writer's illness and loss lead to the creation of a healing writing workshop, and a new anthology of writings.

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Writing and Healing, Writing and Self-Making 5/17/11 Writing and Healing, Writing and Self-Making 5/17/11

Elegy

A meditation on language as living history, the loss of whole worlds when a language is lost.

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Art and Healthcare 4/15/11 Art and Healthcare 4/15/11

The Body's Story

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Art and Healthcare, Medical Humanitites, Writing and Healing 3/31/11 Art and Healthcare, Medical Humanitites, Writing and Healing 3/31/11

Has My Ship Come In?

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Art and Healthcare, Chronic Illness, Spirituality, stress, Writing and Healing 3/28/11 Art and Healthcare, Chronic Illness, Spirituality, stress, Writing and Healing 3/28/11

Put To the Test

A poem about the vulnerablity experienced with a lumbar puncture.

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Medical Humanitites 3/16/11 Medical Humanitites 3/16/11

Making it Human

New health problems and a new doctor add up to fear. But the reality is something quite different.

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Chronic Illness, stress 3/8/11 Chronic Illness, stress 3/8/11

Prisoners

Having CFIDs is like being in prison. Recovering from it is like being on parole.

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Chronic Illness, Spirituality 1/26/11 Chronic Illness, Spirituality 1/26/11

La Vida

Who are the poor who are always with us?

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Spirituality, Stories, trauma 1/5/11 Spirituality, Stories, trauma 1/5/11

The Long Way Home

An encounter with a Karen refugee family prompts some questions.

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Spirituality, stress, Writing and Healing 12/6/10 Spirituality, stress, Writing and Healing 12/6/10

Take Off The Wheel

Seeking the space between.

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Literature and Medicine, poetry, Writing and Healing 10/29/10 Literature and Medicine, poetry, Writing and Healing 10/29/10

Incantations

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Art and Healthcare, Caring for the Caregiver, stress, Writing and Healing 10/15/10 Art and Healthcare, Caring for the Caregiver, stress, Writing and Healing 10/15/10

What's Wrong with this Picture???

Nurses bear a huge burden of stress, which affects patients. Arts interventions for patients can relieve the burden of care for nurses, and arts interventions for nurses can create a healthier work environment.

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