Healing Through Creativity – Desiree Cox MD, PhD

Are you another undiscovered Susan Boyle? Have you been dreaming a dream, quietly nurturing a talent, a gift, or some possibility of creative self-expression for 5, 10, 20, maybe 25 years or more? Maybe the dream has not yet come to fruition? Maybe you’re thinking you were a fool to still be entertaining other possibilities for yourself. Maybe you think … Read more about this episode...

“Is it possible to change the structure of the brain, and alter how we think and feel?” In 2004, leading Western scientists joined the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India to address this very question. This week’s Healing Through Creativity Show brings together host Dr. Desiree Cox with Sharon Begley, a New York Times bestselling author who … Read more about this episode...

Stories shape the way we see ourselves. They can influence how we act too. Many a ‘good marriage’, ‘successful career’ and ‘comfortable life’ has been torn to shreds by that old and familiar cultural story, affectionately known as ‘the Midlife Crisis’. In this week’s Healing Through Creativity show, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to one of today preeminent essayists, cultural … Read more about this episode...

Are you a doodler? Studies show that doodlers actually remember more than non-doodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information? Did you know that there’s even a national doodle day in the UK and USA? In this week’s Healing Through Creativity show, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to breast cancer survivor and now author and artist, Carol Edmonston about healing … Read more about this episode...

Dov Baron, the Accidental Guru. In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to the personal and professional leadership coach, bestselling author and radio host Dov Baron about transformation, creativity and wellbeing. In June 1990 while free climbing, Dõv Baron fell about 120 feet, and landed on his face. The impact shattered most of the bone structure … Read more about this episode...

What do Al Gore, David Abrams and Jeffrey Pflaum have in common? In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to former inner-city New York elementary school teacher Jeffrey Pflaum about returning passion, meaning, fun, imagination, curiosity, wonder, and magic to adolescent reading. After 30 years as a school-teacher at a tough school in New York, … Read more about this episode...

What makes a social enterprise a healing enterprise? In this week’s exploratory conversation about imagining the future of being human Dr Desiree Cox and her guest Andrew Lyon from the International Futures Forum (IFF) explore the connection between culture and social enterprises and what we might learn about creating meaning and creative self-expression in this Change of Age leading up … Read more about this episode...

Culture – the patterns of relationships we are embedded in – shapes us. And, in this week’s exploratory conversation about imagining the future of being human Dr Desiree Cox and her guest Andrew Lyon from the International Futures Forum (IFF) look at dance to see what treasures this form of cultural expression might teach us about creating meaning in this … Read more about this episode...

2012, A ‘Change of Age’. Tom Evans continues on from last weeks show with Andrew Lyon from the International Futures Forum in this series of exploratory conversations on the Healing Through Creativity show imagining the Future of our species with host Dr. Desiree Cox Tom Evans is 21st century renaissance man, a serial entrepreneur and engineer now author, poet, musician … Read more about this episode...

This run up to 2012 marks a significant period in this ‘Change of Age’. Andrew Lyon from the International Future’s Forum is this week’s Healing Through Creativity, guest with host Dr. Desiree Cox in a series of conversations and explorations imagining the future of ‘human beings’ as a species in this ‘Change of Age.’ The International Futures Forum (IFF) is … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox reflects on conversations with Mr Joel Andrews and Ed Mikenas, both professional musicians and healers about their work, healing gifts and practices, and how their work helps clients on their journey of being whole. Joel Andrews is a harpist, composer, author, and he was the pioneer music healer … Read more about this episode...

‘You can’t think your way to a better life’, says Mark Mooney. Quite apart from the fact, as Cox reminds us, that when it comes to thinking about certain things like ‘free will’, ‘happiness’ and ‘fulfillment’, it seems we can’t think straight anyway. This week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox continues her conversation with Mark Mooney, … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to Mark Mooney, who is VP of Public Programs at Strozzi Institute, and a certified Master Somatic Coach about creativity, whole-person health and personal mastery. Mark is a teacher in Strozzi Institute’s Leadership and Action courses in the US, Europe and Asia, as well as providing individual … Read more about this episode...

Wisdom begins with wonder. Healing journeys often begin as disruptions in our business-as-usual approach to life. And the healing change often begins even before the healing intervention has even been initiated. This week host Dr Desiree Cox reflects on intention, perception and the art of being whole. Drawing together important themes from important conversations over this year of Healing Through … Read more about this episode...

Last week we heard Carolyn Keyes talking to Dr Cox about creativity and healing in the workplace instead of Dr McAspurn. We apologize for this substitution. This week our ‘Healing Through Creativity’ host Dr. Desiree Cox explores how health and spirituality might be integrated in the therapeutic encounter between healer or practitioner and client with Dr Michelle McAspurn. A … Read more about this episode...

What about your spirituality? Medical doctor, Integrative Medicine Specialist, and Interfaith minister, Dr Michelle McAspurn finds it helpful to ask this question during her medical consultations. This week our ‘Healing Through Creativity’ host Dr. Desiree Cox explores how health and spirituality might be integrated in the therapeutic encounter between healer or practitioner and client. Dr McAspurn who qualified at Glasgow … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox speaks Chief Relationship Office and Newfield Coach at Newfield networks, Carolyn Keyes. Whether engaging with thousands (an extrovert’s dream) or speaking one-on- one, Carolyn’s ability to connect with people using humor and her outgoing personality is legendary. She grew-up in a small town near Chicago where she realized … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox speaks with a statistician and historian of science, Dr Eileen Magnello. Dr Magnello, who is an expert on Karl Pearson and Victorian statistics in particular, developed a passion for cooking after an operation on her brain left her mind in pieces. “It was like my mind was a … Read more about this episode...

Does God allow suffering? Is Transcendence possible in modern society? What does liberation mean in contemporary modern life? And what, if anything, does any of this have to do with healing, and more specifically healing through creativity? This week our ‘Healing Through Creativity’ host Dr. Desiree Cox explores the limits of healing through creativity with sociologist Dr Paul Gilfillan. ‘Does … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox speaks with award-winning British film-maker Eleanor Yule about how we are artists of our own lives, and about connecting with the well of emotions and possibilities within ourselves through films and film-making. Yule’s arts documentary work with the BBC which includes the critically acclaimed OMNIBUS on French painter Pierre Bonnard, … Read more about this episode...

Healing Through Creativity: Perceiving Life through the eyes of life itself. A healer’s journey. In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox speaks with Emaho, a native American Indian healer, about the healer’s journey. Emahó teaches about the phenomenon that is Life. He has been giving workshops throughout Europe for over fourteen years. He teaches how to see … Read more about this episode...

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox speaks with George Allen Robertson from a different Healing Through Creativity (great minds think alike!).  Robertson’s Healing Through Creativity is an organization that helps survivors of trauma of all kinds to cope, heal and recover by tapping into their own creative capacity and internal resources. Each year the organization … Read more about this episode...

Where you live can affect your genes. Natural Genetics, the study of the effects of nature, nurture and culture on our health and genetics shows that our living spaces (our environment and lifestyles) can affect our genetics. ‘Space matters’ is the theme of this week’s conversation with Professor Stuart MacDonald OBE, artist, architect, consultant, and cultural transformation through creative … Read more about this episode...

A Not So Still Life. ‘A truly inspiring and stunning portrayal of healing and transcendence through creativity, and one of the best documentary films I have seen to date’, is how I would describe this award-winning documentary film about the life and art of Ginny Ruffner. Karen Stanton, the director of the project, and Ginny Ruffner herself are my guests … Read more about this episode...

If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world.™ (William Stafford). My guest Dr. Andrew Lyon from the International Futures Forum (IFF) talks about the IFF™ WORLD GAME, some of the creative products the IFF have been putting into … Read more about this episode...

Can human ideas become natural facts? Are our words mere artifacts? And if so, can public art help communities heal themselves? My guest this week is Osprey Orielle Lake, artist, environmentalist, author and winner of a 2011 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal for Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. We’ll be talking about public art and its … Read more about this episode...

Some say the source of joy, bliss and creativity comes from ‘living every moment with one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss’ (Paul Coelho). For my guest Steven Russell, ‘The Barefoot Doctor’, this way of living has become the the norm. Join me this week as we continue our inquiry into healing, creativity with The … Read more about this episode...

Who would have thought that having Multiple Sclerosis would become a vehicle for healing and that illness might have the power to show us what makes us come alive. It has for Cathy Aten. I love my life™, says Cathy. I have a wonderful life™. This week we speak to my guest Cathy Aten, about illness, metaphor and the … Read more about this episode...

A 19 year old young man goes into a mall in Omaha Nebraska, shoots 7 people and then kills himself. Find out how this event inspires a Chicago artist to help teenagers heal through art and creativity, and, how the event ultimately leads to a project where teenagers and young people image universally understood visual symbols that inspire healing through … Read more about this episode...

Nicola had suffered with depression and had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome when she began Surfing Rainbows. Three months later, she was feeling happier, healthier. ‘I feel there is so much more joy inside me now’, she says. ‘People tell me how alive I look.’ What is Surfing Rainbows? Join me this week when I talk to Pamilla … Read more about this episode...

Imagine if tragedy struck your life and took away everything that was important to you: your career, your identity, your ability to earn a living, your most precious memories. What would you do? Where would you start? What would you create? And how would you create it? Join me this week when I talk to Dan Rhema author of the … Read more about this episode...