Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

I spent the weekend in Oakland CA at InterPlayce, the home of the art-based improvisational system InterPlay, (an active creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body.) I’ve been a proponent, participant, practitioner, performer, teacher  and altogether...

Pittsburgh Understands the Art of Grieving and Practices it Well

It was the spring of 2018. A group of leaders, educational institutions, and non-profits in Pittsburgh began working together to bring to Pittsburgh some of the 70 restored string instruments played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. They wanted...

How does Music and Sound Heal?

My introduction to sound healing came through a friend of a friend. Monique Mead is a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, an accomplished musician who has a passion for using music to induce the positive feelings of relaxation. She’s a neighbor of my friend Pam,...

Remembering a Favorite Aunt as Part of the Art of Grieving Well

The Fourth of July fireworks always remind me that summer has arrived, no matter what a struggle the spring weather had getting us here. Their nosy beauty also reminds me that my favorite aunt’s birthday is coming right behind. Aunt Dote died in 2004, shortly after...

The Well-Lived Life

  As we near the end of Women’s History Month, you simply must meet a path-making woman who, like me, you may not have heard of. Doctor Gladys McGarey, MD’s life and achievements have so far eluded the history books, but that’s about to change as her upcoming...

The Woman Who Didn’t Get To Grieve

After many years of accompanying clients through episodes of loss and grief, all the while experiencing significant losses in my own life, I’ve come to see grieving as an art we need to get good at to experience a rewarding life. And much of what people are taught...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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