Art and Healing Wednesday… We are such a verbal culture and we use words to describe everything. What if you could only communicate non-verbally? Would you be able to represent a thought, a feeling, or an experience without words? That’s exactly what the art students at Chaparral High School in Parker, CO (my home town) [...]
Archive for April, 2010
What Does Hope Look Like To You?
Posted in art and healing, creativity and health, tagged Chaparral High School, coaching illness, Greg Katz, health blogger, hope and healing, hope and health, illness coaching, Jude Keller, Lisel Mueller, Parker Adventist Hospital, patient empowerment on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are You an Illness Whisperer?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Greg Katz, health blogger, holistic health, horse whisperer, illness coaching, illness whisperer, mind body connection, patient empowerment, self-empowerment, Spirituality and Health on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Life is full of choices. When we get surveys we always have to check a box that represents something about us, but is it accurate? What if we’re more than just one thing (other than gender and age)? We get caught up in being one thing and one thing only, but we’re multi-dimensional and following [...]
From the Bible to Real Life
Posted in Caregiving, tagged Brother's Keeper, care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, coaching illness, cosmic consciousness, Greg Katz, health blogger, patient-caregiver relationship, The Bible on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! For centuries, scholars from around the world have been working tirelessly to interpret the Bible. One of the big questions that has been used over and over in modern times is the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” It’s a great question and one that probably brings up a lot of [...]
Does the Body Ever Get Bored?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Greg Katz, health and stress, health blogger, illness coaching, mind body connection, patient empowerment, stress, stress management on April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is probably going to start off as one of the odder posts I’ve written, but sometimes I have these weird thoughts that stick in my brain. It began after feeding the dogs this morning and wondering how a dog can eat the same thing every day for their entire life. At least wild animals [...]
Life As A Canvas
Posted in art and healing, creativity and health, tagged art and healing, art and medicine, coaching illness, Greg Katz, health blogger, illness coaching, medical humanities, mind body connection, patient empowerment on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the first Art and Health Wednesday… I didn’t start life out as an artist, I mean I didn’t intend to be an artist although the arts were always included as a part of my life. I started as a young musician. My first instrument at the age of 9 was the bass fiddle. [...]