Creativity and Healing

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”― Martin Luther King Jr.   There are days we can...

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Experiential Healing

What is it? Experiential healing is when we consciously participate in our own physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing process. We may heal on many levels every day and not think much about the process. Recovering from a cut finger or a negative encounter with a driver on the road...

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The Healing Benefits of Massage

Emotions are stored in the body. We all can feel when we are stressed and our neck feels tight or when our stomach feels upset but it often takes more awareness to connect our emotions to what is happening in the body. We can carry emotional baggage in our bodies for years without even being aware...

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The Art Of Acceptance

When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to...

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Healing Post Traumatic Stress

June is PTSD Awareness Month and all of us here at Project Resiliency and Raven Drum are sharing our work and commitment to helping veterans who are suffering after combat. There are so many new effective treatments that are helping soldiers come home. We can’t allow even 1 of our warriors fall to...

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Healing the Heart

During the month of February we are reminded of love and appreciation all around us. But sometimes all of the reminders of love and affection can led us to look at our own feelings of disconnection and lack of love in our lives. Life isn’t always full of sweet hearts, flowers and chocolate, not...

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Nature: Our Healing Teacher

In our everyday life we are surrounded by the power and gifts of nature. Whether walking down a crowed sidewalk in New York or walking barefoot on a California beach we have opportunities to tap into the direct guidance of the natural world aligning us with peace, tranquility and calmness. Where...

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Music and Healing

The Power of Music Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou The power of music and its ability to heal has been felt throughout generations of every culture. Through instruments and voices from around the globe, the...

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Self Compassion

Self-compassion is a challenging and beautiful path towards resiliency. It may be easy for some of us to be compassionate towards others but to ourselves? Not so easy. Most of us are very hard on ourselves and very seldom take the time to stop judging and treat our selves with kindness. The...

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Self-acceptance

We all know the word. We all understand the concept. But acceptance is one of the hardest inner tasks to accomplish. It’s an inside job that requires absolute and complete honestly and compassion. When it comes to resiliency, self-acceptance is a major piece of the puzzle that we will have to...

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