Our work and our mission is to redefine therapy and our conversations are about the art and practice of healing. This blog was launched in May 2018 by Dr. Jamie Marich, affiliates, and friends.
Originally published on the Dancing Mindfulness Expressive Arts Therapy Blog, 5/4/2017 If you’ve followed Dancing Mindfulness and other projects connected to my Institute for Creative Mindfulness work, you’ve likely encountered the hashtag #redefinetherapy. What started as a book chapter and a hashtag is quickly turning into a movement that you
Date scribed: November 10th 2023 There is a BIG difference between fixing and healing a plural system; and though most well-meaning clinicians use terms and descriptions to define and frame the narrative of plurals as broken, what they really are doing is judging from a place of their perceived privilege
Dear Friends, As the founder and CEO/director of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness (ICM), it pleases me to announce some changes that are coming for 2024 that represent the next phase of our evolution. When I retailored my training company Mindful Ohio into the Institute for Creative Mindfulness in 2015,
An Excerpt from The Portable Supervisor: The Essential Guide for Students and Mental Health Professionals, by Wendy Nathan Creativity in Session I want to go there. ― Tina Fey Everyone, absolutely everyone is creative. Period. Exclamation point! You included. Creativity isn’t limited to art or poetry or the other mainstream
To dance is my rebellion. To move this body through time and space, to move unapologetically, expansively, refusing to shrink, to be silent, to disappear. Take up space. Letting go of what no longer serves me, While acknowledging the history that this body carries. MY body speaking truth. Exposed. Every
Lately, more therapists in my circles who are critical of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach to therapy are calling the culture around this method, developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, a cult, or at very least describing it as cultish. As someone who dislikes most aspects of the approach myself,
Intention by Julie H. Richards My intention: I can be open to what wants to be expressed through me. Open receptivity To be willing To be present To create To express To go slow To savor To linger To bring more of myself to the world, to my family, to me
Disability is defined in several different ways. Depending on which definition you align with, whether you are disabled or not, and how your disability impacts you, can all shape your perception. In reality, disability is a spectrum, even within the context of a specific form of disability. Things look very
“In her interview for this project [Dissociation Made Simple], I asked her [my therapist Elizabeth Davis] if she had any concerns about me coming out with my diagnosis, or if any concerns have surfaced for her since. She honestly answered no, but then turned the question around on me to
Dr. Jamie Marich and Irene Rodriguez facilitated eighteen clinicians through our annual Life: The Path of Meditation expressive arts online retreat on January 8, 2023. We are grateful that several of our participants chose to share their poems and other expressions with us to share with you here on our
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