DECEMBER 2024: GRATITUDE

In this excerpt from an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou talks about her understanding of gratitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACa4ZpigtZg We also read this poem:                                                                   I Am Thankful For      ...

NOVEMBER 2022, SELF-ACCEPTANCE

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...

JANUARY 2022, THE POWER OF PLACE

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 —...

DECEMBER 2021, HOW PERCEPTION AFFECTS REALITY

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...