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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......
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What Does “Spirituality” Mean at Southwestern College? By Hilary Gunby
Hilary Gunby, student at Southwestern College, reflects on what Spirituality means at this unique graduate institution......
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Student Loan Forgiveness – It’s Real, by Jessica Callaway
You've heard that somehow, somewhere, by working at some obscure place, you might possibly be able to get some of your student loans forgiven. "Yeah, but I've never actually KNOWN...
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The Southwestern Counseling Center: My Practicum Experience
Second-year student, Sylvan Schneider, offers his reflection on navigating his own therapeutic approach and being a student therapist at the Southwestern Counseling Center. ...
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Counseling, Consciousness, and Survival in Utah’s Horseshoe Canyon
I never thought that the coursework in a master’s degree in counseling would help me to survive a night of being stuck in Utah’s rugged, remote, and desolate Horseshoe Canyon....
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Good Eats for Southwestern Students
Santa Fe has over 300 restaurants to choose from, and chances are whatever your tummy craves, or whatever diet you are on while studying here, Santa Fe has something special...
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Top 5 Fave Grad School Study Spots in Santa Fe
In the the M.A. Art Therapy/Counseling program I find myself reading and/or studying quite a bit. Spending hours on end at home can be wearing. A simple change of location...
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Home is where the HeART (Therapy) Is
By descending down into the depths of the soul, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls. ...
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Hello Perfectionism, Meet Patience
“Interesting how you are only using a black sharpie marker in your art today,” says my art therapist, as she gently points out my visible tension with perfectionistic, black and...