change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!the everyday becomes exquisitely beautiful. the notion of boredom becomes alien and absurd as we naturally soak in the lovely subtleties of the “banal.” josh waitzkin
this quote is from waitzkin’s the art of learning, a book i’ll […]

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when i was a child in germany, everyone was singing, all the time. you sang while doing the dishes, at church, with others just for fun, everywhere. waiting at the bus stop, i’d while away the time singing.
paraguay wasn’t much different. my singing repertoire was enhanced by beautiful songs in the native language, accompanied by […]

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it’s been a year since i last hosted a carnival of healing, so it’s great to come back to this. as usual, there were many submissions. so this is a rather long post. i’ve categorized them to make it a bit easier to read.
personal development and spirituality
spiritual healing: 50+ podcasts to find […]

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here, friends, is the second part of this month’s buddhist carnival. the first part is here. enjoy!
forgiveness
andrew, on his blog rants of a gay lunatic (i have to confess that such a title immediately makes me perk up my ears) does not directly mention buddhism in his article why we must forgive president […]

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for this week’s frozen pea friday post – a post for and about cancer survivors, following the frozen pea friday movement – i’d like to point you to an interesting project by ms. frozen pea friday herself, susan reynolds.
susan is an artist, a mother, grandmother, prominent second life citizen, social media maven. and she has […]

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recently, i discovered a new blog, and i immediately – what’s the word? – glommed on to it. beplayful.org, that’s the name, and it says it all. i was able to persuade david to write a post for change therapy. here it is:
i love being playful. being playful helps me to […]

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the written word – of course, bloggers like me, we love it. and it certainly has healing powers, in many ways: it educates, it helps us think, it can soothe, it can make our hearts soar.

but there are so many other ways. here is a delightful little music video by m. ward that […]

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for today’s “frozen pea friday” post on cancer, and because it’s national mental health week, i’ve interviewed someone on how she deals with the emotional effects of cancer. here’s what she says:

i have 100% permission to have all the meltdowns i need to have (i.e. anger, crying spells)
have a relationship with a psychotherapist […]

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yesterday i had a wonderful conversation with dr. matthew b. james about the hawaiian spiritual system of huna. since this is national mental health week and the focus of this year’s mental health week is workplace mental health, i asked him about huna in the workplace.
what is huna?
first of all, what is huna? […]

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the image is by jackal, who says “i struggle with mental illness (borderline personality disorder) and i explore and express my world through photography and writing in which i believe there is no reality - only perception.”

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this week is national mental health week in canada. like last year, i’ll dedicate all my posts this week to mental health. (in a way, all my posts are about mental health but this week we’ll just be a bit more explicit, ok?)
today a roundup of mental health events happening in and around vancouver […]

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i was going to send this as an email to someone but why not post it here?
the question is – how do you turn something dreadful into something you like? actually, the words used were “purgatory” and “heaven”
i have a few exercises for this, and one of them has something to do […]

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welcome to the buddhist carnival, a selection of buddhist posts all over the blogosphere.
this month is poetry month. let’s start with a zen poem, then, by p’ang yun, who lived from approximately 740 to 808 C.E.
when the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
nothing real, nothing absent.
not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck […]

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a while ago, alex shalman interviewed 34 people on the subject of happiness. following up on this, he created the happiness project, a group writing project where everyone who wishes answers questions about what happiness is for them. these posts then are gathered on his blog, here.
below are my answers. and if you’d […]

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today you can find me over at nancy’s blog, where i try to help her readers relax before they do their dreaded taxes.

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