Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Kate's Interview with the Art Therapy Association of Colorado

I was honored to be featured with the Colorado Art Therapy Association as their art therapist spotlight for the Summer 2020.

Please click here to read the interview.

Monday, June 29, 2020

I Will Come the Rest of the Way

I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Brene Brown's "Unlocking Us" today. The episode was the second in a two-part interview with Dr Harriet Learner, a well-known psychologist who studies relationships. These two episodes are focused on the topic of apologizing, and it was a profound and insightful listening experience for me. At the end of the second episode Dr Learner and Brene Brown share a Hebrew parable that brought shivers down my spine. I wanted to share my paraphrasing of this parable with you as an example of an authentic, heartfelt, and deeply meaningful apology between a father and his son:

A King became angry with his son and banished him from the kingdom. After years of estrangement the King’s heart softened and he sent his soldiers to find his son and ask him to return home. After their journey the soldiers returned to the king and said the son refused to return, as he was still so hurt and bitter about what happened. The King sent his soldiers back to his son with a new message: “Return as far as you can, and I will come the rest of the way to meet you."

Now that, folks, is the way repair happens.