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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.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

The Importance of the Heart

As part of my own recovery, and creating of my own health, I want to use this blog to share with you any interesting activities, processes, information, and resources that I've found healing:

Here is an interesting snippet from Deepak Chopra regarding the importance of the heart. In it, he says that the number one risk factor for premature death from cardiovascular disease is hostility, mistrust, cynicism. This is a risk factor that is controllable.
I know personally that in the past, I have spent too much time in an environment of hostility and cynicism.
A recent report from Ohio State University evaluated whether or not emotional stress affected healing. Forty-two married couples participated in the research project in which they received small blisters on their skin (ouch!) and then engaged in either a loving, supportive conversation or an angry, hostile disagreement. The researchers measured the concentration of immunological chemicals in the blood and tracked how long it took for the wounds to heal. The results showed that one hostile interaction slowed healing by almost twenty-four hours.

For today,
1. Intend to create an environment of compassion, love, and acceptance.
2. Practice the law of detachment by letting others be who they are, and take a few minutes
to meditate for peace.
3. Put your attention on your heart and inwardly repeat these four words:
Peace, Harmony, Laughter, Love.

To your health,
Chris

Creating Your Health with USANA Health Sciences and Team Northrup

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It's a group of entrepreneurial women and men who are philosophically aligned with the work fo women's wellness pioneer, world renowned author, and one of the country's
most respected authorities on women's health....
Dr. Christiane Northrup.
Founded in 2003, this unique team has joined together
to build a lucrative global health and wellness home-based business, while also helping others around the world to improve their health.
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