Tracy Councill is coming to Discovery Day!

Tracy Councill will be coming to Emporia, KS to be the Keynote Speaker for the 39th Annual Emporia State University Art Therapy Discovery Day on March 9, 2012.  She created this video which was created by pediatric cancer patients in Tracy's Kid's Art Therapy Programming at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital's Lombardi Cancer Center.

ten day old pig with a wheelchair

This pig was born without the use of his hind legs.  Even animals with disabilities need love and care ♥

My amazing field, art therapy

All three of my professors, Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, Jessie Stallings, and Libby Schmanke, in the art therapy counseling program at Emporia State University that I graduate from this May are contributing to this book project which features authors from all over the world.  One of the editors, Dave Gussak, I have had the opportunity to get to know fairly well through an assignment my first semester and since after.  Both of the editors work at Florida State University, where I studied for undergraduate and during that time I met another amazing person who is also contributing, whom I am lucky to call a friend and mentor, Dina Ricco.

enjoy hearts found in nature

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Why is art beneficial to children?

Ran across this article about 10 skills that children learn through the arts. Thank you to my friend, Megan for sharing it.  I love knowing people who care about art as much as me and who are using their creativity daily to expand the minds of people in our world.  Megan is one of those people!

Help Emporia State University student and her family

Family of Emporia State Student, Yali, who was hit by a car in November 2012, is asking for help from the community. Check out what doctors are calling a miracle and her story.

never

I usually say "never say never" but while taking a break from editing my first two chapters of my masters project today, I was feeling slightly unmotivated to start working again.  I got on google to look up ideas for motivation and came across a guide to motivation that has some good suggestions, some of which I have already been doing.  At the end of it is a quote which gave me a different perspective on the word "never".  I think I found an exception to using the word never.

"Never, never, never, never give up." -Winston Churchill