How creativity can revive your life

Sidewalk Art    -photo by Karyn

Cultivating Imagination

 Discovery    Inspiration

Free Intro talks!

Experience how Expressive Arts can encourage transformation and growth in your life.

Your moment to explore...

How imagination, creativity, and being playful or lighthearted can reduce strain, stress and feeling stuck or overwhelmed.

Let us allow ourselves to connect with the heart and intuition.

Join us for an hour and fifteen minutes:

• July 23: 7 pm   Invigorate
• July 26: 10 amConnect
• August 20: 7 pmUnwind
• Sept 6: 10 am    Connect
• Oct 25: 10 am   Invigorate
• Nov 22: 10 am Unwind

Location: The talks are held at I)  Glow Wellness Centre, #400-1008 Homer St at Nelson, and II) Tapestry Counseling Centre, #203- 4381 Fraser St at 26th Avenue. Karyn will confirm the location when you sign up.

Please register for your preferred dates: connect@refresharts.com or call 778-708-8966.

I look forward to greeting you!  -KD

Dancing with possibility

Dancing with possibility. Where in life are you moving with openness, a spirit of discovery; taking the risk to be surprised?

Persian poet Rumi speaks to my heart in so many of his writings:

Respond to every call that excites your spirit

-The Essential Rumi

Wishing you new avenues of possibility today! 

Gems of Inspiration

My thought for today:

A beautiful encounter with yourself.

What could that look like?  Re-connecting with something you love to do, recalling how you've been kind or creative or just plain amazing recently?

Fresh summer brews

I am VERY much in the mood for all things refreshing & cool: Ginger beer, gelato, iced chocolate with melted dark chocolate (yes!),  cool wind on my face, bare feet in the grass. Rejuvenation, flow, release. The things of summertime joy for me.

Honey Lemon Tea is a Blog that focuses on comfort, healthy living, and green beauty ideas:

Honey Lemon Tea a prime choice for those days when you have a sore throat or feel a little under the weather.   It soothes an achy throat, gives you a needed dose of Vitamin C and even if you’re not sick it’s still a comforting treat.   It gives us the perfect blend of flavor, health and sweet nostalgia.  From  www.honeylemontea.com

It's time to switch from hot tea to iced beverages, and I am excited about makinghoney ginger iced tea. I keep cold drinks in a glass pitcher for an invigorating sip!  Ingredients I use: Grated ginger root, a fairly dark local honey, squeeze of fresh lemon. Experiment with the amounts of ginger & sweetness that you prefer.

Happy summer to you!

Anger Umbrella

Uncovering the spokes of anger... I was recently part of a workshop on cultivating curiosity, and thriving in challenging situations related to caregiving.

I appreciated the discussion on Anger Umbrella, a way to conceptualize and understand the process of angry emotions.  Our facilitator Deborah Braun talked about the spoke of an anger umbrella as being those uncomfortable emotions such as:

Embarrassment, feeling undervalued, confused, afraid.... and many more possibilities.  When an interaction or situation stirs up those kind of emotions, they lead us to jab someone with anger. The anger is a reaction to deeper human feelings that are uncomfortable so they are often difficult to sit with.

Another key point that raised my awareness: Anger is a sign that we are needing to make a boundary in order to respect ourselves.

In my words, an angry moment is also an opportunity to honour our needs in some way, and to check in with how we're feeling about a situation or relationship.

So in this regard, anger can inform us of what may need our attention, energy, lovingkindness.

Thank you everyone, for an evening of honest sharing, encouragement and strengthening our emotional tool kit.

There are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

-Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening