Creating Community
On Women’s Day, Kate Swaffer speaks candidly to a global community: Choose to challenge!
In 2020, Kate Swaffer joined the Influencers included in our magazine. A prolific author and spokesperson for people living with [...]
Mindful Presence
Religion may reduce stress and increase longevity
This survey included questions on church attendance (a surrogate for religiosity) and 10 stress factors that can be measured in a [...]
Music as Medicine
The arts are a shadow health service – here’s why
Just imagine for a moment a world robbed of facilities, resources and activities in the creative arts and humanities: no [...]
Creating Community
You are invited to submit your story for online publication!
We are celebrating International Women’s Day - Monday, March 8 - with a call for submission of personal stories from [...]
Creating Community
Brené Brown’s words inspire our gift list for International Women’s Day – Monday, March 8
100% of earnings from Amazon for the month of March will be donated to the Center for Partnership Studies. [...]
Music as Medicine
Morning Has Broken: How Music Creates a Healing Place
This reflection begins in my current location in the central highlands of Mexico. It includes flashbacks to growing up on [...]
Mindful Presence
Gems of wisdom from Mr. Rogers to inspire a last-minute Valentines gift
100% of Amazon earnings for February are being contributed to the Food Bank of Guanajuato City. Included in the list [...]
Mindful Presence
Why remembering matters for healing
"Conversations about a painful past are not something to be feared but rather remembered and shared. Healing does not come [...]
Creating Community
“To heal we must remember”
"Yolanda Adams’ voice rang out at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Tuesday, as she sang 'Hallelujah' at a national [...]
Music as Medicine
Deep River – my early influence who inspired full circle renditions
As a child drying dishes while Mother washed, I witnessed her singing spirituals while looking into the orchard from the [...]
Creating Community
The fierce urgency of now: It’s easy to say “wait” when you’re not oppressed
"Clergy from 7 historic downtown religious communities in Pensacola, FL regularly meet and have become trusted friends. Here, in the [...]
Creating Community
How can America heal from the Trump era? Lessons from Germany’s transformation into a prosperous democracy after Nazi rule
In my early career years, I was a classroom teacher for children of personnel at European headquarters for the US [...]