Dance as dementia therapy

This was sent to me by a dear friend living in Queensland, and I wanted to share it here. Some days, music, dance or other recreational activities become the therapy and healing we need. Today is one of those days! Read the paragraph below FIRST before you watch the video & turn-on speakers. There is an…

Pain, compassion, blogging and therapy

In an article by Jeff Goins titled The purpose of pain, his final comments are; “Something transformational happens when we go to places of deep pain and let our hearts be stirred. Compassion, a word of which I am quite fond, literally means “to suffer with.” It would make sense that compassion needs pain to…

Recipes, blogs and heart disease

As of today, I have added 76 recipes to my Conversations and Recipes Page on this blog, as listed below. There are many more in my files at home, but so far, I am thrilled to have kept up with the goal of adding one per day whilst travelling. The aim was to write recipes for…