Mumps break out in highly immunized population
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Much like the Pertussis outbreak in Washington, DC in the late 90's, we have another example of immunizations not doing there job. There are more stories just like this around, you just have to look for them. Don't just accept what your pediatrician or family says you should do with regard to immunizations. Make sure you educate yourself and make your own decisions. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - April 12, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: mumps Immunizations Source Type: blogs
Choline and reduced risk of breast cancer
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This study adds to the growing body of evidence that links egg consumption to a decreased risk of breast cancer.In this new case-control study of more than 3,000 adult women, the risk of developing breast cancer was 24 percent lower among women with the highest intake of choline compared to women with the lowest intake. Women with the highest intake of choline consumed a daily average of 455 mg of choline or more, getting most of it from coffee, eggs and skim milk. Women with the lowest intake consumed a daily average of 196 milligrams or less.“Choline is needed for the normal functioning of cells, no matter your age or ...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - April 5, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Choline Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Rjl analysis and weight loss
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This machine is used in our office for analysis and repeat analysis in patients who are wanting to lose weight naturally. It works great and is so much more valuable than other forms of fat/weight analysis. When you are in next time mentioned we will begin your road to weight loss and a better happier life. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - April 5, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Weight loss BMI RJL Source Type: blogs
The amazing autistic....should we "cure" them
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This is amazing. I hope you will be inspired and awed as I was when I watched this. There are some abilities of man that I still can't wrap my mind around but it makes you wonder how little of our brains we are actually using. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - April 5, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Autism Source Type: blogs
Fasting and chemotherapy damage
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This is an preliminary study on fasting and the effect it has on chemotherapy damage. I thought it was interesting that there was some admission here that chemotherapy is so damaging to the human organism. Sometimes the cure is worse than the condition and chemotherapy often fits this bill. You may have heard the old joke, "We cured the cancer but killed the patient." Well, for those of you who are in a situation where chemo is your choice or last resort this information may be good to read. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - April 1, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Chemotherapy Fasting Source Type: blogs
Low testosterone and diabetes
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This was an interesting link between low testosterone levels and type 1 diabetes. Insulin resistance is so prevalent now and there appears to be so many ways to develop the resistance. I think you will find this article interesting. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 28, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Diabetes low testosterone insulin resistance Source Type: blogs
Ear infections in children
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I decided I have to post on this because of what I see as an ever increasing trend in my office. This is the trend of placing children on repeated antibiotic use over the course of the first 3-5 years of life. This pattern appears to start early in life with medical/pharmaceutical intervention and continues on a path of health decline over the next few years. Below I will describe the first five years of life that I see these young children experiencing. You might see your child or a friend or family members child in this same situation. My goal in practice is to reverse this trend so that children can live a happy drug fr...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 27, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Immune System Ear infections Ear Tubes Antibiotics Source Type: blogs
Finding happiness again
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This article shows how to find this happiness again. Even giving as little as five dollars a day to someone seems to raise the "happiness qoutient". Check out the link and enjoy. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 20, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Happiness Source Type: blogs
Vaccinations or no vaccinations that is the question
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The following post is no substitute for the advice of a licensed professional or for your own education. It is in no way intended to sway or direct a reader to make any particular choice regarding immunizations and vaccinations. The information contained here is for the purpose of education and is not in any way a conveyance of advice of specific treatment.Link 1Link 2Link 3Link 4I have not included many pro vaccination links because this is the information that is regularly churned out by the medical associations and public health agencies. You can get lots of information on TV, Radio, and billboards if you would like it....
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 18, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Vaccinations Immunizations Source Type: blogs
Stroke of insight
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This post is for all of my readers and patients who have had a family member or friend that has suffered a stroke. It is an amazing video clip on someone explaining how a stroke affects the brain and its right and left hemisheric function. Jill Bolte is the presenter and neuroanatomist who suffered the stroke. It is a neat mix of science and experiental description of stroke and its affects. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 17, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: neuroanatomy Stroke Source Type: blogs
I couldn't believe it .... but its true
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I will not comment here other than to say this is major craziness. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 12, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Humor Source Type: blogs
Tips for getting better sleep
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This article gave a few really good ideas for getting better sleep. As a side note, if you are taking pharmaceutical sleep aides or aides for restless leg syndrome, you might want to comb both medical literature or natural health literature. I suggest that you consider looking at Standard Process' Magnesium Lactate. Magnesium is well documented in high doses to end restless leg syndrome and improve sleep patterns. However why get magnesium when you can pay more for a prescription medication and enjoy all the harmful side effects (me tongue in cheek). If you want more information, email me and I will get it to you. (Source...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 11, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Magnesium Restless Leg syndrome Sleep Source Type: blogs
Chemotherapy and its effects
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I don't agree with all the information in this article that references and journal article about chemotherapy. There seems to be a bias against certain foods which I don't agree with, however, the information on chemotherapy and its devastating effects is very accurate. Hope you find it interesting too. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 10, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Chemotherapy Source Type: blogs
Interesting lecture on brain function
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Take a look at this video of some very interesting thoughts regarding brain function and some of our uniquely human abilities. We are learning so much about our brain function right now by use of functional MRI's etc. I think even the lay person will find this lecture very impressive and understandable. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 9, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Neurophysiology Brain function Source Type: blogs
Estrogen dominance and breast cancer....what about progesterone
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Interesting article once again showing the effect that high estradiol levels have on previous breast cancer survivors. Is it possible that estrogen dominance could be shifted by reducing exposure and increasing the level of progesterone to counterbalance estrogen dominance. To avoid a long post here, if you want more information about how to deal naturally with this situation just email me at drclouthier@gmail.com. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 8, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: progesterone estrogens Bioidentical Hormones Source Type: blogs
George goodheart
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George Goodheart, a man who revolutionized natural and chiropractic health care practice by developing the technique called Applied Kinesiology has passed. He will be looked back on as one of the greatest minds to ever exist in the health care arena and his presence in this world will be greatly missed by so many of us who loved him. I owe a great debt to him for allowing me to practice in the way I do now and to have the wonderful profession and life that I have. He was a great man among greats and he will always be looked to by many as the father of modern natural medicine that is extremely effective and honors the bodie...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 6, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Applied Kinesiology George Goodheart Source Type: blogs
Could all those crazy parents be wrong ?
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Finally we have some confirmation from the ivory tower boys that vaccinations lead to autism. Many of us natural health practitioners have been seeing tens of hundreds of parents in our offices that have stated that their child's autism began days after a vaccination. The medical community has told these parents that they are mistaken and misguided in their associations for years. We have known this is not true but the medical and pharmaceutical machine is big and loaded with cash to deal with these assertions so the individual parents have been silenced. I think this current happening may blow the lid off the issue. We sh...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - March 6, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Vaccinations Autism Source Type: blogs
Spanking and deviant sex
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This article is a hoot. If everyone who was ever spanked exhibited deviant sexual behavior our country would be in really bad shape. It was worth a good laugh, especially in light of its' complete lack of credible scientific support. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 28, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Child rearing Source Type: blogs
Medication only helps with severe depression
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This article begs the question of why antidepressants are prescribed for everything under the sun seemingly, including even mild depression. Why do we keep using them if they don't work. Seems like considering other options might be a much better idea, rather than suffering the serious side effects that can occur. check out this web site if you get a chance (www.netmindbody.com). It may be the best way to get to the bottom of what appears like depression. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 26, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Depression Source Type: blogs
Flu vaccine craziness continued
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This is one of the craziest headlines I have seen in a long time. This would be like me telling my patients that they should take echinacea to strengthen their immune system even though it is completely ineffective for strengthening the immune system. I got a real chuckle out of this article and thought you should get one to. You will also notice that there are no statistics anywhere in the article that support the need for the flu shot in the first place. If you have a lead on some real statistical analysis of the flu vaccines and their effectiveness I would love to see them. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 13, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Flu Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Psychiatry is a modern nightmare
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I think this may be enlightening for many. I will let you draw your own conclusions. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 12, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Mercury and autism
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This article is interesting but somewhat misleading. I don't think most educated people who believe there is a connection with autism and vaccines think that it is related to blood levels of mercury. Most I think would say that they believe that it is mercury's effects where it deposits itself in soft tissues (organs, brain, intestines etc.) Have a read but make sure you see the other side of the story on the internet about this issue. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 2, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Heavy Metals Source Type: blogs
When do we start questioning modern psychiatry
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I really can't say much about this. 25-30% of my patients now seem to be on some type of psychiatric or anti-depression medication. If I were to look at the patients that see a psychiatrist, the percentages would be much higher. My question is: "If you are going to the psychiatrist for some severe psychological condition or you are suicidal, does becoming more suicidal worsen your condition or is it a good thing ? The answer seems obvious but these drugs are being pushed with new vigor and strength by many in the psychiatric world. Please take a read, the article was a little troubling for me. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - February 1, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: psychiatry suicide Source Type: blogs
Nutritional deficiencies and the birth control pill
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This article sheds light on some of the lesser known effects and it is worth the read. I hope that this will help you as you make educated decisions about types of birth control that you choose in your relationships. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - January 28, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Nutrition Birth Control Pill Source Type: blogs
Cough medicine and cold medicines for kids
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Have you noticed that we are seeing more and more of this type of warning. It seems whenever we think we have found a great miracle cure in the pharmaceutical or medical industry we see quickly that it was too good to be true. Of course you will hear the occasional knock on natural remedies too. Many times when you try to find factual support for the arguments against the natural cures there is minimal substance. For instance, there were some claims two years ago that a specific herb had caused a basketball players heart to race and become irregular. This was splashed all over the national media outlets however it was neve...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - January 20, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Pharmaceuticals side effects Source Type: blogs
Maybe a cure for alzheimers
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This is an interesting journal study that may herald a new day in Alzheimers Treatment. It appears that one of the main things we may be dealing with is Central Nervous System inflammation. Its reduction appears to potential reverse the effects although more in depth studies are needed. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - January 12, 2008 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Alzheimers Source Type: blogs
Information to save a life
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New research appears to support the fact that when doing CPR for a suddenly collapsed individual it may be better to only use chest compressions and forgo mouth to mouth resuscitation. It appears that some researchers in the study of this area have felt this way for years. It is a good read and something important for most of us to know. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - December 17, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Emergency Care Source Type: blogs
Reflections from mitch albom
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I thought this was a great article about honoring those who have gone before us. I think many times, due to our busyness and our personal issues with previous generations ,we can lose our honoring of those who have gone before. It is also a testament to how an idea spawned in genuine love and joy can bring forth such an effect and leave such an impression on so many. Enjoy the article (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - November 4, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Thankfulness Source Type: blogs
Is your lipstick full of lead ?
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If you are reading this I suggest calling a local Arbonne International representative. They have a whole line of lead free and natural lipsticks and cosmetics. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - October 17, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Source Type: blogs
When these things happen ............
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When products, that are just common over the counter use medications, are being pulled because of adverse affects we have some real problems. Over the counter implies to most of the public "safety", which appears to be anything but the truth. I am once again asking each of us to really evaluate what we are doing personally and with our children in regard to drugs, both prescription and over the counter. As more and more of these cautions come out, I believe we have to start looking at what decisions we are making with regard to our healthcare. Please evaluate yours now and see if the risks are worth continuing to trust the...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - October 13, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Warning Source Type: blogs
Protect your heart
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Researchers have finally confirmed that it is able to die of a broken heart. I have seen this phenomenon in patients who have had a spouse die for whom they were married for a long period of time. I truly believe that the best way to insulate your heart from damage is to always express emotions at the time they are felt. This way there is no holding of emotions in the heart meridian. In NET the heart meridian is primarily associated with the feeling of being "frightfully overjoyed" which means scared and excited at the same time. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - October 11, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Heart health Source Type: blogs
A must read.... pottengers cat's
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Pottengers' cats will tell you all you need to know about the differences between whole food and synthetic nutrition and nutritional support. It is worth buying and reading when you have a chance. It will explain why I only use two supplement manufacturers and never send my patients to healthfood stores or GNC/Walmart to purchase junk nutrition. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - October 5, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Whole food Source Type: blogs
A research study on the health benefits of writing about goals and dreams
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In 2001, Laura King, one of the researchers in the field of writing and health, conducted a study in which she looked at what happened when college students wrote about something she calls “their best possible future self.” By this time, a large amount of data had already been collected on the benefits of writing to work through difficult past experiences. King became interested in exploring what other kinds of writing might be beneficial to health. Her study is one that I don’t think has been written about enough.
She looked at 81 undergraduate students, randomly dividing them into four groups: a group which wrote ...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - September 25, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Tags: Research Source Type: blogs
Respite
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[graphic courtesy of Visual Thesaurus] (Source: One Year of Writing and Healing)
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - September 25, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
September at one year of writing and healing
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Well, the weather has finally dropped below ninety degrees here, the school buses are back on the road, and I wanted to let you know (if you don't already) that I've returned from sabbatical and have started another year of Writing and Healing----
Writing and Healing: Year 2.
Perhaps the most pertinent thing for you to know now, in terms of logistics, is that this new site will have a different feed. In plain English, this means that your email subscription to One Year of Writing and Healing is coming to an end.
If you'd like to receive emails to my new site over the next year--which will be weekly this tim...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - September 3, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Leona helmsley a petty climber
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I gave the woman the benefit of the doubt during her trial and incarceration that I had attributed to class warfare and rich-people hatred, but now, I'm beginning to think that she is one of those mean, petty, vindictive, manipulative, condescending, imperious people who would be little less than nothing were it not for loads of money. I suspect she came from the plebe class and despised her working-class roots. They're the worst sort when endowed with unearned cash.Ah, and after a little peak at Wikipedia, what do you know? I swear I did not look at this entry before typing the above. Of course, this doesn't make me a gen...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 29, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Celebrities Busi Source Type: blogs
Breast fed baby killed by effects of codeine
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Another alert about the side effects of prescription drugs. There were so many of these similar articles on the web today that I don't even want to count them all. What a shame that the penalties for these drug companies are negligible. Who pays ? Those people who continue to take these drugs, their children and their families who have to deal with the effects of the damage in their lives. Please make different choices now while your health is intact. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 17, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Medical Error Source Type: blogs
August 2007: writing and healing: the thirteenth month
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Welcome to the thirteenth month of One Year of Writing and Healing, a month in which I’ve returned from sabbatical and am beginning some renovation work at the site. Adding. Shaping. Rearranging.
The photo is from Wildacres Retreat Center, where I spent a week at the end of July, staying in the cabin there—a snug cabin in the mountains that stayed a cool seventy degrees most days, and, nearly every afternoon, a shower of rain fell on the metal roof. The entire week offering a kind of writer’s paradise. My sabbatical, which included time at the beach as well as this week at Wildacres, has been a true gift--offering ...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - August 17, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Predicting the future
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I will boldly predict the future. We will continue to see more and more of these warnings regarding medications and drugs that are prescribed regularly in the medical community. At my office we will continue to educate our patients on natural forms of health care and the best ways to maintain health in a world of increasing toxicity. Going back to the basics are key.1. Rest2. Peace 3. Organic and Whole Food nutrition4. Healthy relationships5. Hydration with healthy water6. Spiritual practice7. Belief in something greater than yourself (God) (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 16, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Medical Error Source Type: blogs
Best nutrition site going
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If you want to begin your true education in nutrition, this web site is the place to start. If you want to take all the confusion out of the supplement/nutrition/herbal therapy world use this site. It is simple and accurate in its truth. Please use it as a resource regularly. It will debunk all the multilevel marketing schemes that are out there and explain why I use Standard Process supplements and very little else. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 15, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Looks like the ada is finally admitting mercury fillings do harm
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The following is a post that my wife forwarded to me regarding ADA recent comments on Mercury Fillings.Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)President, Gordon Research Institutewww.gordonresearch.comFrom:Terry J. Lee D.D.S.Ph. 480-545-8237tjleedds@cox.netADA warns members: Trouble ahead for mercury fillings.The American Dental Association sends out an ADA Update to its members only, but of course we have several Fifth Columnists who wheel it on to us. Gone is the old ADA braggadocio about the Food & Drug Administration finding mercury fillings to be safe. Gone is the time-worn assurance to its members that the good old ADA will take ...
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 1, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Mercury Fillings Source Type: blogs
Dr. mercola's video on state of healthcare in us
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When you get a chance watch this video. It is eye opening and should be a educational experience to the truths that are inherent in the medical system as we know it. I did not produce this, it was produced by Mercola, so please don't be mad at me for the information it contains. (Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier)
Source: Dr. Steve Clouthier - August 1, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Tags: Health Care Problems Source Type: blogs
Writing and healing idea #44: rest hour
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When I was at summer camp as a girl we were required every day after lunch to go back to our cabins and take a rest hour. I didn’t like rest hour then as much as I would probably like it now, but I did like it that before rest hour was Store, and this meant that you could prepare for rest hour by lining up at the small store window and buying one of those long flat striped pieces of taffy, and then, if you wanted, you could make the taffy last most of the hour.
For this particular writing idea, consider giving yourself a respite---a reprieve—a break---from writing----or from healing—or from something. Consider a R...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 12, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Stronger than dirt: a recommended book [part two]
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Conclusion: Bring more good flowers.”
At the next market they take in three hundred and twenty dollars. By September a few cherry tomatoes have managed to ripen, and a variety of wildflowers had come into bloom around their cultivated crops. One Saturday in September they manage to take in six hundred. At the end of the season, after the first frost, Chris makes a final tally: a total gross for the first year of 4435 dollars. Before expenses. Chris’s first response? “. . . you can’t support a family of hamsters for a year on that sum of money.” His second response? He begins figuring out a plan for the next s...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 10, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Stronger than dirt: a recommended book [part one]
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This is a book about a flower farm. It’s written in two voices, that of Kim Schaye and Chris Losee, a married couple in Brooklyn who moved out of the city to upstate New York to realize a dream—a vision. I’m quite sure that one reason I’ve enjoyed this book so much is because I get a kind of vicarious pleasure out of reading about someone—anyone—cultivating acres of flowers. But I also like the way this book begins at the beginning—when the flower farm was no more than a notion—and it proceeds to articulate the process of going from nothing—from scratch—into the realization of a vision.
Interestingly...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 8, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
On looking ahead: pema chodron’s teaching on living life as an experiment
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To have a vision is risky. To say aloud what one wants—or to dare to write it down—is to take a risk. This seems especially true when one is daring to find words for one’s deeper goals and dreams. And it seems to me that this kind of thing should be acknowledged somewhere at the outset.
Two summers ago, my daughter, then fifteen, volunteered for Horse-Sense, a nonprofit organization which then offered horse therapy—the grooming and riding of horses—to children and adults with developmental disabilities. It was a small operation—a pasture, a single riding ring, and a barn—fueled primarily by the sweat and e...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 5, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
A research study on the health benefits of writing about goals and dreams
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In 2001, Laura King, one of the researchers in the field of writing and health, conducted a study in which she looked at what happened when college students wrote about something she calls ???their best possible future self.??? By this time, a large amount of data had already been collected on the benefits of writing to work through difficult past experiences. King became interested in exploring what other kinds of writing might be beneficial to health. Her study is one that I don???t think has been written about enough. (Source: One Year of Writing and Healing)
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 3, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Writing and healing idea #43: imagining the future
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Imagine for a moment that you’ve been handed a ticket. And imagine that this ticket grants you admittance aboard a vehicle which can then carry you to any point in your future that you desire. Six months from now? One year? Five years? The vehicle is navigated by a kind and skilled conductor. You simply need to tell him to which period of time you would like to travel. Then close your eyes. And let yourself begin to go there.
Imagine that upon your arrival at this moment in the future, you discover that everything has gone as well for you as it possibly could. Imagine that things have gone the way that in your deepest...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 1, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
July: now what?
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Welcome to the twelfth month of writing and healing, a month in which I'm going to explore a bit ways to use writing to look ahead--toward what might be coming next--or what you would like to be coming next. A way to use writing to explore the next chapter of one's life.
I should say here, on a practical note, that as I look ahead, one of the things I'm looking ahead toward is a brief sabbatical I plan on taking from this site. I've decided that in order to prepare for--and rejuvenate myself for--a second year of writing and healing, I'm going to take a bit of a break from adding new entries to this site: from mid-July ...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - July 1, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
Nine images for writing as healing
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A Visual Counterpart to My Last Post
Writing as a clean well-lighted place. A cafe that is always open.
Writing as a pumpkin--that sense of possibility.
Writing as a broom--sweeping out the guest house that is the self.
Writing as a map to a healing quest.
Writing as a pensieve--a container in which to spot patterns and links.
Writing as a small beautiful boat--a vehicle for a healing quest.
Writing as a way to remember the sky.
Writing as a Refuge.
Writing as an unwinding ball of string.
[Please note that the sources and links for the above graphics are the following: The cafe painting is by Li...
Source: One Year of Writing and Healing - June 28, 2007 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Diane Morrow Source Type: blogs
