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    Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. – Marianne Williamson

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  • Photos

    I am a Creative Arts Therapist who has been using a digital a camera for the last 5 years or so. As a relatively new photographer I use my life experience coupled with the advantages of a DSLR to snap shots that are, at times, appealing to me and on occasion others as well. Luckily, since I don’t use film, I have been able to afford to shot ten of thousands of images in the last 10 years, some of which are here. Click image to enlarge.

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  • Coloring Page Persian Cats

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  • Art therapy: a world beyond #creativeexpression | Carol Hammal | TEDx

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  • heart disease & drinking

    Can you drink if you have heart disease? Moderate drinking should be OK, if your doctor approves, but you shouldn’t count on alcohol to be a major part of your heart health plan.

    “If you don’t drink alcohol now, there is no reason to start,” says Mark Urman, MD, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles.

    It’s true that there have been studies linking drinking small amounts of alcohol — no more than two drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women — to better heart health.

    But the exact link isn’t clear. Those studies don’t prove that the alcohol (whether it was wine, beer, or liquor) was the only thing that mattered.

    Other lifestyle habits could have been involved, the American Heart Association notes. Or the important thing could have been nutrients that are in grapes, which you can get from the grapes themselves, without drinking wine.

    “One drink a day is probably healthy for people with heart disease and those without it,” says James Beckerman, MD, a cardiologist at Providence St. Vincent Heart Clinic Cardiology in Portland, OR.

    But whether or not you drink, you also need to keep the rest of your diet healthy, not smoke, and get regular exercise. Read More.

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  • Your brain’s creativity

     

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  • Coloring Page Chow Chow

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  • Transcending addiction and redefining recovery: Jacki Hillios

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  • Movement therapy helps young kids

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  • thinking

    I have been teaching anger management groups for a while using a combination of psycho-educational and process oriented techniques. For recovery groups anger is often listed in the top 5 reasons people report relapsing. One of the successful techniques of managing anger and other emotions is to identify you go to mode of thinking. Below is 1 hand out I often use. We go over the and out, and I ask folks to chose their one or two go to thinking styles and give examples in relation to anger. 1510499_10152095399702618_1945865276_n

     

    All or nothing thinking

    • Be specific, focus on the behavior only and describe it with precision

    Jumping to conclusions

    • Pay attention and catch yourself making the assumptions
    • Keep an open mind to other possibilities

    Should statements

    • Describe what you want or would like. Then if it doesn’t happen you

    can be frustrated/disappointed but less likely to feel righteous anger

    Blaming

    • Forget the other person, they’re not going to do anything different

    Labelling

    • Don’t make judgments about the other person

    Overgeneralization

    • Make a conscious effort to look for exceptions

    Magnification

    • How bad is it really? Look at the whole picture
    • Be very accurate & precise in your answermsclip-010.jpg
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