Actually, this post should be titled “How I’m trying to overcome a phobia and how freaking difficult it is!”
Growing up in the east coast of Canada, in a city with great public transit, I never felt the need to learn how to drive…or so I told myself. I could get around just fine, and it [...]
I posted 2 new pieces on the artwork page. These pieces relate to my associations and thoughts as I live with a chronic Gastrointestinal disorder, Crohn’s disease.
Here is a link to a very interesting group that discusses Art Therapy, Media Arts and Technology. If you are thinking about topics such as Computer Art Therapy, Cyber Therapy and the integration of previously mentioned topics, this is the group for you. The discussions seem to be somewhat few and far between, but the [...]
I’m freshly out of the hospital from a brief surgery stint, due to an abscess/fistula combo that came about from Crohn’s disease. I’m doing well, thank you for asking and I should be back to work in no time.
Its been almost 8 years since I needed to be hospitalized, and I was surprised by [...]
In relation to a previous post I made about tele-therapy, I happened to hear about Lisa Kudrow’s internet tv series, web therapy, that spoofs therapy over the internet. So…I searched on google to check it out (it is pretty funny, btw), but the first link that google pulled up was webtherapy.com. Curious, I searched around [...]
The latest Creative Therapy Session podcast featured a topic that I have always been interested in, but always felt hesitant to bring up during my schooling. I felt that the idea of conducting art therapy sessions online would have been a taboo topic in a program that emphasized the presence of the therapist with the [...]
This month’s Scientific American Mind is really great. There are tons of articles on topics I am very interested in such as, creativity, anorexia, clues to the origin of consciousness through split brain patients, as well as epigenetic theory that gives new clues to how the environment influences gene expression, but does not actually alter [...]
The following was an emailed question, which I am posting with the permission of the author.
Hello Ms. Beck,
I found your website looking up a life coaching program, and found your site. I thought it was a great site and a neat coincidence because I’m also doing some web work, and recently did process art few [...]
After doing a substantial amount of podcast listening on mindfulness and its integration into therapeutic practice, I couldn’t help but wonder, doesn’t art making bring us into the present moment and help us pay attention to the details of the world that surroundings as well as out inner world?
In regards to paying attention to [...]
Working with the clientele I have been exposed to at Redwood Place, I have noticed that many of the clients struggle when it comes to sitting with negative emotions/situations. I doubt that this is something only reserved for the dually diagnosed DD and mental illness population, but rather this is something we all struggle with. [...]
