by Joan | Feb 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
In case anyone might be interested, here is a new site called “How to Start & Keep a Mental Health Journal” that you might find useful.
by Joan | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
NOVEMBER 2022 SELF-ACCEPTANCE Throughout our lives, we may experience social pressure to see ourselves as somehow incomplete or unworthy. We’re not thin enough, or not young enough. We don’t exercise enough, or contribute to the right causes, or make the...
by Joan | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
This month’s Writing as Healing workshop focused on the ways in which physical places can arouse positive feelings such as warmth, safety, and familiarity. To do this writing exercise, start by thinking about a place — a real place, not a fantasy —...
by Joan | Dec 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
This month’s Writing as Healing session focused on the way we THINK, the way we interpret events, as an important influence on our experience of life. The following story is told in many forms and in many cultures. This version comes from the eastern European...
by Joan | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s an old saying to the effect that life is what happens to you while you were expecting something else. In today’s reflective writing workshop, we focused on dealing with the unexpected. The first writing exercise was to write for ten minutes about...