Blog

Healthcare’s Future and the ARTS!

Healthcare’s Future and the ARTS!

A fellow artist just called my attention to a website, Americans for the Arts, and an article on the future of healthcare ... this essay entitled Arts, Health, & Wellness looks at changes in the American healthcare system and the role that the arts may play in...

read more
Creativity and Grief

Creativity and Grief

Trauma and grief leave an indelible mark on our hearts and minds. The greater the trauma, the greater the impact on the neurological functions of the brain. Healing from trauma and loss happens when we reactivate the brain in a different way - art, creativity, self...

read more
Good Blood Bad Blood

Good Blood Bad Blood

I recently met a man named John Smith - yes, his real name! He lives in the Hood River Area of Oregon, is married with two grown sons, and is an excellent writer. He loves to golf, garden, and hike. He has also been living with multiple myeloma since his diagnosis in...

read more
Vaccine before Chemo

Vaccine before Chemo

Over the years, I have taught my Create to Heal classes to many women with metastatic breast cancer; so, when I saw Dr. Erika Hamilton, the Associate Director of the Breast Cancer Program at Sarah Cannon Institute of Research in Nashville, being interviewed regarding...

read more
All you need is love.

All you need is love.

I recently walked onto the Oncology unit floor at GAMC and asked one of the nurses: "Quick! What is the inspirational word of the day?" He quickly said "love - it's all you need." As I went from room to room with my Gems of Joy jar, I sat with each patient while they...

read more
Oncology Nurses & The Jolie Effect

Oncology Nurses & The Jolie Effect

I am very fortunate to be affiliated with Glendale Adventist Medical Center's Oncology unit. I started my Create to Heal (tm) program in early 2010 and Glendale Adventist was the first medical center to embrace my teachings and classes. I am now working very closely...

read more
The Jolie Effect

The Jolie Effect

For those of you who don't know, I work very closely with cancer patients - many are going through treatment for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. When I heard the Angelina Jolie news, I was wowed at first by her decision as one of the most beautiful women in the...

read more
See the beauty in all things …

See the beauty in all things …

and you become that beauty!  See the love in life, and you will see that Life is about love. In a recent Create to Heal (tm) class at Glendale Adventist, we wrote about what was on our mind in that moment.  One patient let go of the dialogue in her head and let the...

read more
Rebirth

Rebirth

REBIRTH  by KIMIE CHO Rebirth, rebirth, rebuild Birth Birth Everyday is my birthday I am reborn everyday. Everyday is a new day. I make a new start everyday. Everyday, I put away the bad things that happened to me So I can move forward. Everyday, I still face...

read more
Patients Write about Hope

Patients Write about Hope

Last Friday's creativity class at Glendale Adventist Cancer Services was devoted to a writing assignment and canvas piece entitled The Lotus Blossom.  As the writing and creativity blossomed, we saw that the images were of a garden, a garden of hope. Here are some of...

read more

Ready to work together?