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About RichardB

I am trained and work as a Creative Arts Therapist specializing in group therapy. I have passionately studied, worked, and taught as a hands-on practitioner of the Creative/Expressive and Healing Arts since 1983 integrating various modalities working in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. I currently provide Creative Arts and Counseling services to nonprofit agencies as well as occasionally teaching classes and workshops in communities of faith. I use compassion and acceptance to create an environment that is safe and nurturing for all individuals and groups. In my spare time I engage in research and write articles on a variety of subjects, create: poems, music, abstract artwork, and photograph nature.

Mindfulness: Reason Mind, Emotion Mind, and Wise Mind

Posted on April 2, 2020 by RichardB

I have been practicing meditation since the mid-70’s and started a mindfulness meditation practice in the mid-90’s. Mindfulness has to do with the quality of awareness that we bring to what we are doing and experiencing, to being in the … Continue reading →

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Meditation and Pain

Posted on March 31, 2020 by RichardB

Meditation can relieve pain, and it does so by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April 2011 study in the Journal of Neuroscience. Fadel Zeidan of Wake Forest University and his colleagues scanned people’s brains as they received uncomfortably … Continue reading →

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Maz Jobrani Sobriety & the Struggle to Overcome Addiction

Posted on March 30, 2020 by RichardB
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Ant Coloring Page

Posted on March 28, 2020 by RichardB
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Emotional Intelligence

Posted on March 26, 2020 by RichardB

I often work with groups using lists. In movement therapy as well as psychotherapy, educational and process oriented groups lists are a great structure for groups to explore thoughts, and/or feelings. Here is a list that often comes up in … Continue reading →

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Evidence based Yoga

Posted on March 24, 2020 by RichardB

Yoga is a mind and body practice in complementary medicine with origins in ancient Indian philosophy.  Carpal tunnel syndrome A randomized, single-blind controlled trial of 42 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome assigned subjects to either a yoga treatment group or … Continue reading →

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light and sight

Posted on March 22, 2020 by RichardB

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”  Rumi  

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