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Creative And Expressive Arts Activities To Promote Mindfulness And Peace, Lisa S. Sosin
Creative And Expressive Arts Activities To Promote Mindfulness And Peace, Lisa S. Sosin
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Briefly define creative expressive arts and mindfulness practice and discuss their importance and empirical base.
Mindfully Discovering One's Authentic Self, Lisa S. Sosin
Mindfully Discovering One's Authentic Self, Lisa S. Sosin
Faculty Publications and Presentations
There is a compelling link between counselee symptoms and the developmentally based capacity to put authentic thoughts, feelings, and choices into words (Greenspan, 1997). When emotional safety and secure attachment are not available and “scaffolding” was not provided to support the development of these capacities, truth is still spoken, but at an undifferentiated, behavioral level, instead of clearly represented with words. Often the symptoms people come to counseling with are related to these undeveloped or constricted aspects of the self (Siegel, 2010). The ability to tolerate and regulate painful emotions is a highly complex skill that requires practice and discipline …