Healing Resources
Attention Must Be Paid
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the act of paying attention and what that means. Last year around this same time I came across a cover article in Newsweek entitled Grow Your Mind. It was by Sharon Begley, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, a book on neuroscience and Buddhism that I read some years ago and liked quite a bit. This past week, I found myself going back to the article because of something I remembered her saying about the act of paying attention. I found this: One of the strongest findings in neuroplasticity, the science of how the brain changes its structure and function in response to input, is that attention is almost...
Read MoreWriting and Healing on the Radio
Last month I had the good fortune to get an invitation from Anne Hallward, a psychiatrist in Portland, Maine, who hosts a weekly show called Safe Space Radio. She was doing a series on writing and healing and invited me to participate in a phone interview with her. The show aired last week and is now available: Writing and Healing on the Radio I have to admit—I was initially wary of listening to it. It’s not as if I didn’t feel the interview had gone well. Anne has a gracious style of interviewing (she reminds me a bit of Terry Gross from Fresh Air) and I felt during the interview that she’d made a wonderful space for me to talk about a subject...
Read MoreAbout Me
I'm a former physician, now a high school English teacher, returning to Writing and Healing because it's one of those topics that just will not let me go. I'm working on a book now, transforming my previous site, One Year of Writing and Healing, into a more coherent form, as well as adding a lot of new material. If you feel so moved, I'd love to have you be a part of it. You can find your invitation under Book above and also on my home page.