Illuminate and Create!

Illuminate and Create!

I would like to share a beautiful piece by MaryAnn Montanez, cancer survivor, who attends my Creativity classes at Huntington Memorial.  While we listened to harp and violin music, she wrote: A Violin, A Harp Musical Melodies respond to healing sounds in my soul....
Tiempo es Oro … Time is Gold

Tiempo es Oro … Time is Gold

I am reminded through the beauty, grace and sincerity of each domestic violence victim I meet that time is gold … time is precious … time is now.  In today’s class at Haven House, one of the clients was bemoaning the fact that she let her children...
Healing is …

Healing is …

One of the exercises I take my cancer patients through in my Write to Heal class is the simple scribbling and doodling about what it means to heal. What does it mean to heal? According to the dictionary:heal  (hl) v. healed, heal·ing, heals v.tr. 1. To restore to...
Life humbles and empowers …

Life humbles and empowers …

“Life can humble you in a way that also empowers and enriches you.”  A Woman with Wings. The following lovely passage is from one of my writing students, who continues her fight with breast cancer.  The assignment that day was to remember one of...
Leadership is…

Leadership is…

I recently taught a class on Leadership to 20 some domestic violence survivors who are a part of the SAC, Survivors’ Art Circle at A Window between Worlds.  The class was entitled, The Wounded Healer Heals.  All of us have experienced pain and wounding.   Some...