Reading Time: 4 minutes “Four Strategies for Recognizing Your Beauty When You Feel Ugly” first appeared in Your Tango on May 27th, 2020. The raw reality of the meaning of “appearance” can be profound. Closer to the surface, feeling ugly comes from thoughts and emotions, and has little bearing on the reality of how beautiful a person really is. […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Working Together in Understanding the Inner You It’s quite something if you don’t want to nourish yourself anymore, if you deprive yourself from your daily needs. When you feel the inevitable need to control yourself in such extreme ways, if you starve yourself, something must be haunting you so deeply that you aren’t able to […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s important to define art therapy and to help distinguish this healing modality as its own profession from what it’s not. The goal for this article is clarifying the meaning and power of true art therapy, especially with children. Creating or engaging in art may be described by some as feel-good art and crafts, promoting […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes You aren’t going to want to hear this. You’re headstrong, stubborn, independent and determined. These are all qualities which will be useful later in life, but—you should hear me out. I write this because I know what happens next. I know what you were forced to do, how you suffered then and for so many […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) on April 26, 2007. I received one year of chemo and one month of radiation. Undergoing both treatments simultaneously was not easy. With chemo, I lost my hair. My appetite evaporated. It made me felt nauseous and would indeed cause me to throw up. When I was getting treated […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes “In every life we have some trouble. When you worry, you make it double. Don’t worry, be happy.” If life were as simple as Bobby McFerrin sang in his popular hit, there wouldn’t be so many depressions, anxiety disorders or addictions worldwide anymore. We could throw all antidepressants and tranquilizers in the garbage bin, we […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The truth is most people’s lives are based on the beliefs of a malnourished community. It starts out with the beliefs of our parents and families, then our friends and then our co-workers. We’re working with programming that doesn’t nourish us. How do I know this? Just look at the stats. We are the […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes About two weeks ago, I discussed with my therapist about my feelings of loneliness and how I automatically translate my loneliness to people not caring about me, then me not wanting to care about myself. I come to the ultimate conclusion that I do not matter, and that I might as well cease to exist. […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes A while ago I saw 2 movies that touched me deeply, I decided that I needed to write about them. The first one was Sully, which is about the pilot that landed on Hudson river back in 2009 and saved 155 passengers, and the second one was The Good Lie, which talks about The Lost Boys […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s time to talk about tapas. I’m not referring to the little, Spanish snacks that compliment a good glass of wine and nice company. Nights like that don’t exist here, so before my cravings get the best of me, I’ll take another mental route, one that leads me towards the Sanskrit meaning of tapas, which […]
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