pilgrim Pathway

Issues


  • What Keeps You Imprisoned?

    An illness diagnosis makes us vulnerable to our environment, in our relationships, and to a profession that is there to help us navigate these difficult times.  When it comes right down to it, our harshest critic is usually ourselves, and finding a way to give yourself some room to breathe is important for health and…

  • Did The Three Musketeers Have it Right?

    Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! The story is one of the most empowering ways we’ve come to communicate in our modern society.  It doesn’t matter if the story is spoken, written, or artfully transmitted…it’s powerful.  It’s for this reason that finding the lessons in other’s stories is mesmerizing.  Even when we’re talking about fiction the author’s…

  • It’s Time to Be the Quarterback

    Once you received your diagnosis did you find that everyone has an opinion?  Did you get bombarded with stories about friends with the same health challenge or anecdotes about stories in the news?  It’s common when people learn you have a chronic or life-altering illness to dig deep and come up with information they believe…

  • Do We Have to Have a Stroke to Become Creative?

    Welcome to Art and Healing Wednesday… I found an article in the New York Daily News that talks about Tommy McHugh, a sixty year old handyman and street fighter who had a massive brain hemorrhage.  Upon emerging from his coma, McHugh got this creative streak.  This creative streak had led him to begin transforming everything…