Creating Your Health: Book Recommendation: Pleasure Healing!

Creating Your Health

Welcome to Creating Your Health! My Blog to introduce my business, Creative Arts Counseling and Consulting and to post ideas, links, resources as to how one can create their own health. I'm Chris, a Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. I see clients individually, or in groups, couples, and families. I work with children, adolescents and adults with mental health issues. I specialize in working with those recovering from trauma, eating disorders, mood disorders, and various other Women's issues. I am available for consultation and provide workshops on various topics to groups and organizations. Most recent topics include: " The Shadow in the Workplace", "Moving through Bereavement"--Creative Arts in the grief process; "Movement in the Classroom".

My clients include those who choose to work from either a mind and/or body approach to wholeness!

Use of the arts: dance, music, art, drama, poetry, allows for access to the unconscious realm. Simply put, Change takes place first in the Imaginal Realm. If you can't imagine it, how can the change manifest?

My approach to health is a holistic one, embracing the mind, body, and spirit connection and is deeply grounded in psychological theory and orientation. Stay tuned...More to come as the blog progresses.

Christine Matteson
LCAT, LMHC, ADTR, NCC
Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist.
Independent USANA Health Sciences associate
Healthy Living Consultant
Team Northrup

contact me @ cfmatteson@hotmail.com
for more information.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Book Recommendation: Pleasure Healing!

Recently, I've shared about my own health setback, and mentioned some of the modalities that I've found to be helpful in my recovery. The book: Pleasure Healing: Mindful Practices & Sacred Spa Rituals for Self-Nurturing, has been a wonderful companion for me throughout the last 6 weeks. This book, by Mary Beth Janssen, is such a pleasure to read, it seems to evoke the relaxation response from me just by turning the pages.
During my recovery, I've immersed myself in mindfulness meditation, yoga classes, and daily walks in nature. The book focuses on the importance of mindfulness for raising awareness of the sacred in everyday. Allowing yourself to be the nonjudgmental witness of experience, you quiet the critical voice, and I find myself becoming more attuned to spirit. This connectedness with spirit enables you to begin to cultivate compassion and allows you to feel appreciation and gratitude.
I love the book, too for its focus on pleasure for healing. With my own clients, I often discuss how use of the five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing can be beneficial for self soothing and tolerating distress. Pleasure Healing delves into ways to use your senses in healing rituals that you can begin to incorporate in your own daily lives! It's just great! Click on the link above and get your copy today!
To your health,
Chris

Creating your health tip~ Do something pleasurable today; Pleasure enhances the immune system!

Quote: "We need to consciously choose the route of pleasure, the route of health."
~Dr.Christiane Northrup

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