How to Reframe a Traumatic Memory
I swore off ever going to a hospital. My mother’s final few weeks in the hospital before she died were a nightmare of mishaps and miscommunications. Then I found myself rushed to the hospital myself in an ambulance on January 9th, 2023. I had an acute asthma attack and I …
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Four Key Lessons from Art Therapy
During the first few months of the pandemic in 2020, my father, mother, and a friend all died from non-Covid related causes. Then, seven of my friends moved away to different parts of the world to be near their families. At a time when I needed support, key people disappeared …
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Connection & Community
I’ve been thinking about connection and community… We moved to Eugene, Oregon in August. When we arrived, we had a completely different neighborhood experience than anywhere else we lived. Within the first couple of weeks, we met several families on our little side street. They reached out to us in …
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