Purple Crayon Players Presents: Ash & Feather
Ash & Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father’s Cancer began as a podcast in Summer 2020, and now has a new life in this Zoom staged reading...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
October Creative Arts Workshops
Well Beings Studio is excited to announce our workshops for families impacted by cancer, other traumas and adverse childhood experiences....
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Talking about Grief and Loss with Children
On Friday, September 18, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 of metastatic pancreatic cancer. In her rich life as a...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Talking with Children about Cancer
“I’ve got to get up and go to work.” Chadwick Boseman speaks about knowing two boys with terminal cancer, who said they would stay alive ...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
What can we do as a family? Heal.
Healing during and after cancer treatment takes time, sometimes more time than we hoped or expected. Sometimes we are healing from the...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
What can we do as a family? Create.
Being creative help the whole family during cancer. Making art and music, moving and dancing, singing and playing all lower anxiety and ...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
What can we do as a family? Feel.
We have a range of emotions during cancer. Sometimes it is hard to identify what we are feeling. Sometimes we feel more than one...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
What can we do as a family? Read.
Reading is a powerful tool for family togetherness and memory making during cancer. We can learn coping strategies, ask questions and...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Making Art about What Matters to Us
Everyone has a story. Many stories. Often our stories emerge from pain or struggle. Storytelling helps us make sense of a swirl of...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 6 min
Inside Out: Integrating Emotion and Action through Art
It’s ok to be angry. Feelings of all kinds have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. I used to think being angry was bad: it felt...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
“Animals Have Magic”: Healing Arts for Children, Teens and Families
Driving home from an Arizona parrot rescue with my newly adopted Senegal, I received The Call. “Ms. Chappell? Do you have a minute? I...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
Exploring Order and Chaos through Art during COVID-19
The sandcastle stood strong, we thought: solid walls packed with wet sand, a sturdy foundation with a tunnel dug deep below the...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
Using the Arts to Build Distress Tolerance with Children and Teens during COVID-19
Over a week in April 2010, a BP-operated rig discharged 4.9 billion barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean, killing thousands of marine...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Arts and Healing during School Closure and COVID-19
A Time for Creativity and Feeling My 13 year old daughter asked me last night if I would be awake when she came to my bedside in the...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
Making Cancer Magic during COVID-19
What happens when someone you love is diagnosed with cancer? The Little Green Monster: Cancer Magic! by breast cancer survivor and...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
Mothering and Writing through Cancer
This Mother’s Day, I think about all the ordinary women doing extraordinary things for their family and themselves. For me, it is a...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Space Exploration: Braving Big Questions through the Arts
I snap my fingers in moon cast shadows on my smooth head. The contours shape me and peel my layers back. My remaining hair falls...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
Available Now At Grytmentalhealthsummit.com
We created a video for their summit that is located in their “video vault” People have to sign in (FREE) to acress the content. Visit...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
It’s Earth Day! Very Special Well-Being Events in April
I rock back and forth to soothe this body, cut and sewn, poisoned and burned. With my heart open to the rain, I ask its pounding rhythm...
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wellbeingsstudio
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
Colors, Shapes and Feelings: BRAVE Video Series
In the second BRAVE video hosted by Well Beings Studio, I read My Many Colored Days with the help of my friend Prisma. We explore how to...
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