Tag Archives: healing

Making Peace With Pink

Posted on August 14, 2021 by 1sojournal

Creativity is a healing element built into the human psyche. That statement is a corner stone of my personal belief system. And it is built on my own past experiences. From a very young age, I hated the color pink. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged angst, craticity, healing, pink | 4 Comments

Rebirth 3

Posted on June 5, 2020 by 1sojournal

So, how does an individual like myself, with such a poor self-image, even begin to think of becoming a writer, no less? I didn’t just wake up one morning and make that decision. There were a lot of steps involved … Continue reading →

Posted in Rebirth 3 | Tagged broken, experiences, healing, medicine, memories, moments, story, unknown wilderness, Unwritten | 4 Comments

November Image #29

Posted on November 29, 2012 by 1sojournal

For November PAD Challenge: Image #29 Reflection You may copy and paste the image to your blog and then respond to it in whatever fashion you choose. Then come back and leave the URL for your response in the Comment … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflection | Tagged healing, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, reflection, sunset, visual prompts | 6 Comments

Journey Stone #23

Posted on February 23, 2011 by 1sojournal

Journey Stone #23 Healing Acknowledging and honoring the wounds and scars of past pain, then moving beyond them to celebrate ones own survival by encouraging others to do the same. Singing over the bones, knitting them back together to live … Continue reading →

Posted in Journey Stone #23 | Tagged healing, Journey Stones, one daily observation | 6 Comments

Finger Nail Polish and The Sticky Stuff of Life

Posted on May 17, 2010 by 1sojournal

My Mother passed away just over two weeks ago. Her funeral was on May 8th, the day before Mother’s day. This post is not about grief, its process of sorrow, and sadness. My Mother was 91 years old and … Continue reading →

Posted in Finger Nail Polish and The Sticky Stuff of Life | Tagged Eulogy, extraordinarily long run, Family, finger nail polish, funeral, healing, legacy, Memorial Booklet, Mother, nice save, pearl, stories | 6 Comments

The End Is Ever A Beginning

Posted on September 8, 2009 by 1sojournal

I started to fill the last page in my sketchbook yesterday. This one will have words on it as none of the others do. The same words that title this blog. I have two new sketchbooks that should be … Continue reading →

Posted in The End Is Ever A Beginning | Tagged beginnings, conversation, death, Endings, giving shape and meaning, growth process, healing, Labor Day celebration, loss, personal experiences, sketchbook, things appropriate | Comments Off

On Madness and Creativity

Posted on April 7, 2009 by 1sojournal

In response to Claudette’s weekly writing challenge #10: Discernment http://claudetteellinger.wordpress.com/ Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye; Much sense, the sharpest madness __Emily Dickinson I found this quote a few days ago. Seeing as Claudette’s weekly writing … Continue reading →

Posted in On Madness and Creativity | Tagged Art with a capital A, Artists, barriers of definitions, Bi-polar Disorder, blocked creative energies, chaotic environment, close relationship, common ground, comparisons, crafts and hobbies, Creativity, eccentric, elite group, Emily Dickinson, focus, global discussion, harvard business. org, healing, hierarchies, High End/Low End, intensity, isolation, Madness, material gain, Mother and Father, myth, natural let down, opted out, outside the norm, public recognition, research, response to writing challenge | 6 Comments

Challenges

Posted on January 30, 2009 by 1sojournal

In response to Claudette’s Writing Challenge # 1 “the Power of Creativity” Was very surprised when I went to check out the Writer’s Island prompt for today. The site has been closed and there will be no more weekly prompts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Challenge, challenges, writing prompts | Tagged activities, Art, Big A, challenges, choices, class, Claudette Ellinger, closed site, creating own prompts, Creativity, decisions, Definitions, direct challenge, energy, enticing self, Growth, healing, initiate, inspiration, no creative bones, old site, power, response, students, teaching, umbrella, Writer's Island, writing, writing prompts | 6 Comments

Signature Strokes

Posted on January 6, 2009 by 1sojournal

In the world of Fine Art, such as painting, one can, if one has the knowledge of such things, know who the painter is without seeing a signature somewhere on the canvas. It has to do with the manner … Continue reading →

Posted in Choice, comparisons, Creativity, expression, Fine Art, Individuation, painting, Signature Stroke, writing | Tagged balk, blog, canvas, choices, comparisons, Creativity, cubism, distinguish, expression, fashion designers, Fine Art, focus, Frank Sinatra, happiness, healing, individual, lay down words, Michelangelo, murder, my way, painting, perceptions, Picasso, recognizable, rules, Salvador Dali, schtick, Signature Stroke, subject matter, Van Gogh, worst enemy, writing | 5 Comments

The Unspeakable

Posted on August 25, 2008 by 1sojournal

Today, in my journal, I found myself writing about an ‘unspeakable’ pain I have carried around inside of me for almost ten years. Where do you go with something like that? Something so hurtful, that to unleash it, to open … Continue reading →

Posted in Anger, Biography, Choice, Creativity, emotional content, Family, Friends, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Relationship, Self-Awareness, Therapy | Tagged abondonment, betrayal, distrust, expense, fear, friend, healing, journal, pain, resolution, Therapy, writing | 2 Comments