What is Music Therapy?
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Culture Tip: Grayson Perry's Who Are You?
The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry talking recently about Who Are You?, his display of new works at the National Portrait Gallery in London, commented that, “identity is one of those words that gets used a lot particularly in political terms and it always seems a slippery term to me”.
In this diverse collection of 14 portraits shown in the Gallery’s nineteenth and twentieth century rooms Perry uses his fierce intelligence and particularly winning aesthetic to try to pin that term down.
The works have all been made in response to meeting...
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How Creativity Can Help With Grieving
Employing creativity and craft techniques can help people overcome loss and grief says Sarah Royle
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Writing Fiction Airs My Demons
We all know that diary and letter writing can be cathartic, but writing longer fiction works as therapy on several different levels says novelist Joanna Briscoe
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Intuition: Unlock the Power
Philosophers and scientists have endeavored to understand intuition for thousands of years, and many of the great spiritual leaders have talked about intuition. Psychotherapist Carl Jung classified our experience into thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, and he described intuition as being like a ‘compass’ in life.
Intuition also involves the input of nerve networks around the heart and gut.
Modern psychology and neuroscience has identified that the non-dominant part of the brain (your right brain if you are right handed) is the site of visual,...
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Why I Left My Enchanted Cage
Charlotte Du Cann is a former fashion editor with green principles
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How to Surrender to Uncertainty
Surrendering to the unknown is difficult. Learn how to let it be with these 7 pointers on going with the flow and embracing uncertainty, from author Judith Orloff
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Writing a Diary Saved My Life
Imagine getting to the end of your life and there's no record of who you are, where you've been, no trace of the range of emotions, feelings you’ve experienced at various points or stages of your life. What if your memory slowly melted into candy floss, too soft to recall the intricate, sometimes simple and other times significant details of your past life? Leaving you without hard evidence and data of what you’ve lived through, the obstacles you'd overcome and the success you'd achieved over the years? A point brought home in an advert I clipped out of a magazine for...
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Culture Tip: The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery
The Pale Fox, the first UK solo exhibition of the French, New York-based artist Camille Henrot, is currently on show at Chisenhale Gallery a publicly funded space that garners awards and frequently punches above it’s weight in terms of its programming and outreach work with local communities. On the day I saw the show there had already been a visit by members of the East End Women’s Institute and the gallery was filled with comprehensively tall-haired students from Wimbledon College of Arts.
Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for most promising artist at the Venice...
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Knitting Therapy
Knitting therapy: relaxing, stress relieving, meditative, productive.
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