ART of Acceptance, Reflection, & Transformation
ART of acceptance, reflection, and transformation is an art (creative), an acronym (A.R.T.), and a practice of personal growth for holistic well-being. Read More
Tagged: mental health
Before Me: Was, Is, & Will Be
Before Me: Was, Is, Will Be, the barren and the dark, that blackens the indigo so I dance barefoot across the ice. Read More
Reflections on Depression in Johann Hari’s “Lost Connections”
Reflections on depression in Johann Hari’s “Lost Connections”: possible alternative causes and solutions, expands thinking about our mental health, hope, and holistic well-being in this world. Read More
Empathy with Compassion and Respect
Empathy involves bringing a compassionate voice to core values, personal truths, with intuitive understandings. With these mindful considerations, we can build meaningful lives with positive intentions and interactions. Read More
Book Talk: Bedtime Stories for Adults by Kirsten Wallace
Book Talk: Bedtime Stories for Adults by Kirsten Wallace — cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, the vagus nerve, and deeper sleep. Read More
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
In Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem sets out to restore the self-authority that such injustice has undermined. Read More
Loving-Kindness at the Heart of Mental Well-Being
Loving-kindness at the heart of mental well-being starts with your inner child. Entwined in the matrix with the heart is the mind and the soul of holistic well-being. Read More
The Keys Book Reviews
The Art Matrix Magazine Keys Book Reviews features books under the umbrella theme of holistic well-being. Please stay tuned as Book Reviews and extended Book Talk Posts are added on a daily basis:) Read More
As the Crows Fly
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato Read More
Six Degrees of Acceptance
Where earth meets sky, is the vision, best held in accepting the six degrees as the heart rises connected by being soulfully alive. Read More
The Matrix of Holistic Well-Being
The matrix is your holistic identity. The art is the creation of the matrix. So you are the artwork and the artist as well. Read More
Possibilities and Hope
We need possibilities which give us creative opportunities to build hope–growth mindset with more possibilities and hope. Read More
In Gratitude & Paying-it-Forward
In Gratitude & Paying-it-Forward with empathetic mindsets, we share quiet ‘gifts’ along the way, to enrich each other on our shared journeys. Read More
Cerulean Waters
In this poem, Leah mends hope for the outliers, above the cerulean waters, together, across the calm September blue. Read More
“On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are” Puts No-Self Against Identity
This book talk on the book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, talks about Watt’s theory of Buddhist ‘no-self’ concept vs identity. Read More
Out of the Abyss
Moving out of the abyss, accepting the existence of the Leviathan ~ a force which still haunts, pushes states of disquiet determined to disrupt the equanimity of the psyche. Read More
On Authenticity
The philosophy of being authentic ~ the essence & expression of your intrinsic, rational yet intuitive wisdom rooting being-in-the-world, with integrity. Read More
The Enduring Poetic Voices of Sexton and Plath
The enduring poetic voices of Sexton and Plath in the form of confessional poetry–a form of poetry brings the personal or “I” to the fore. Read More
Dreaming Beyond Poe
The dream is within the dream. It is the soul reaching out to talk to you. To embrace the intangible with the tangible. Read More
“The Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck and Guidebook” by Kim Krans
The Art Matrix Magazine Book Talks reviews “The Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck and Guidebook” by Kim Krans. Read More
The Kite and the String
Passive resistance with the truth of prana in the parable, The Kite and the String, and other thoughts. Read More
Radical Empathy and Acceptance
In this Art Matrix Magazine article, Radical Empathy and Acceptance, being surrounded by ‘tells’ a cacophony can be a chaotic ‘noise-of-knowing’ fuelling overwhelming anxiety. Read More
Into the ‘Lime Light’ with Anxiety Disorder
Into the Liime Light with Anxiety Disorder seems seem to be contradictory and counter-intuitive and yet we do this, holding a vulnerability to empower. Read More
The Webbed Enclosure
Free verse poetry: That which extends phenomenal human narratives. With a dusting and a turn, we open the gate beyond the webbed enclosure. Read More
