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Return to Sender
Writing has quite simply saved my life. When I was 16, I was on the verge of ending my life when I received a letter informing me that my first...
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What the Writing Group has Meant to Me – Jaylek Ahn
What the Writing Group has Meant to Me – Jaylek Ahn While difficult to put into just a few words, I am so grateful for the depth of emotion, opening,...
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A Letter to Potential SWC Students
Hello! My name is Beth Lykins, and I am a current student at SWC. I am starting my final quarter of my first year in the Art Therapy and Counseling...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Charmayne Kilcup
How Quitting School Was the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me Charmayne Kilcup, Ph.D. At the young age of 23, I was bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and sure I wanted to...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Marika Dillon
Marika Richards Dillon talks about the professional adventures her degree from Southwestern College has afforded her......
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Valerie Valentine
Valerie Valentine has created a rich, rewarding and successful career with the skills she learned at Southwestern College. ...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Bettina Milliken
Growing up in Switzerland, I developed a passion for Circus Arts and Clowns. When I moved to NYC, I was introduced to the Big Apple Circus and became a board...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Cynthia Fulreader
Cynthia Fulreader Beginning while I was still a student, and since graduating from Southwestern College in 1995, I have been blessed with many wonderful work opportunities in both Santa Fe...
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“Movement Like Breathing” by Diane Chavez
“Movement Like Breathing” by Diane Chavez, MA, LMHC November 15, 2015 My doctor told me the other day that I have Secondary Progressive. “You have permanent damage in your spinal...
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The Unlistening Ear
We are asked to look within ourselves in our first few classes here at SWC. This process varies from person to person. For me, it has been an incredible opportunity...
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The Odyssey of Therapy
The recent crop of counselors and art therapists from Southwestern College commenced on November 7, 2015 at the James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf...
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Scarcity and Abundance by Sherry Young
Abundance and Scarcity Consciousness. This could change your life. Seriously. ...
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A Guest on El Dia de los Muertos
Graduate Student, Amy Gordon, shares a powerful experience of her first Dias de los Muertos event....
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Embracing the Frightened Child
On Monday evenings there is an informal gathering of writers in the art studio building on the campus of SWC. Facilitated by Ann Filemyr, this group in dedicated to self...
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What It Means to Become a Man at Southwestern College, by M. Kevin Clark
Graduate student and Student Board Member of Southwestern College reflects deeply on what it means to be a man in this age, at Southwestern College/New Earth..........
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What I Love About My New Home in the Southwest by Lauren Hamilton
It has officially been two months since I made Santa Fe my home, and the beauty I have been discovering over these past 60 days has been absolutely unreal. Moving...
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Self-Care and HedgeHUGS
I’ve always been the type to give my time, energy and love to just about everything except for myself. I eat junk food, I can’t keep a sleep schedule to...
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Transformation Through the Light of the Lens
I have had the honor of watching the power of art therapy first hand, in my personal life recently. I asked my husband if he would mind if I shared...
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Reduce Shame, Enhance Love: Reflections on Self-Love and the Journey to Find It
It was during my second week at Southwestern College, the second meeting of Tuesday’s Psychology of Altruism class, that Ann Filemyr presented us with this lesson: “reduce shame, enhance love.”...
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The Hogwarts of Santa Fe
This morning I was chatting with one of my lovely classmates about our first two weeks at Southwestern College. She said something that instantly resonated with me- “I feel like...
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Imagination or Memory? by Beth Lykins
I am sitting here outside The Cottage (the pottery studio) at SWC listening to the sounds all around me. Across the way are the sounds of earth movers as they...
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Nature As Teacher: Reflections on a Hike by Hilary Gunby
A first-year student integrates the beauty of Santa Fe and her learning at Southwestern College....
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First Impressions of a Maverick Institution, by Amy Gordon
Student Amy Gordon's reflections on the beginning of graduate school at Southwestern College......
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I Said Something Stupid in Class, by Amy Gordon
Graduate Assistant Amy Gordon experiences transformation on the first day of class......