Gioia–Affirmation Stones September 2016 Here at Creative Wellbeing Workshops we often get asked how to be more positive, but it’s not always easy to just “think positive!”  We sometimes need gentle reminders to shift negative trains of thought. Affirmations are short positive sayings or phrases that can serve that purpose.   The word “affirmation” originally comes from the Latin root affirmare, meaning …

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Gioia–Pensive Who Would You Be?I’d be Ghandi, I’d be Martin Luther King, Jr.,I’d be Me! If you could be like anyone, who would you be and why? We used to pose this question on the inpatient units, just as a conversational warm up with patients.   Some answers were predictable-Oprah, Jesus, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, or Princess Diana.  Some people wanted …

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