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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.

Five Strengths

Posted on April 14, 2020 by RichardB

I used to think that mentally strong people had superhuman qualities. I thought that they were bestowed with some sort of cybernetic strength that they – and only they – had. I thought I would never be like that. In … Continue reading →

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Tiphiid Wasp Coloring Page

Posted on April 11, 2020 by RichardB
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The Brain,left,right and tested.

Posted on April 9, 2020 by RichardB

Do you know what the attributes of your right and left sides of your brain?  Listed below are the common elements of left and right brain hemisphere’s. Plus go here to take the left/right side brain test to see    which … Continue reading →

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Meditation can relieve pain

Posted on April 7, 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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learn

Posted on April 5, 2020 by RichardB

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” Sam Levenson  

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Common Blue Coloring Page

Posted on April 4, 2020 by RichardB
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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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