HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY:
MY NEW RADIO TALK SHOW ON VOICEAMEREICA

Hi, I’d like to tell you about my new Radio TalkShow Healing through Creativity. It’s a live show that comes on every Thursday at 12 noon (EST) or 9:00 am (PST) on the Health and Wellness channel of VoiceAmerica TalkRadio station. It's a live Talk Show. So you can call into the show on 1-866-472-5792 and talk to us live. You can email your questions to me on dr.desireecox@gmail.com.

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The show debuted June 17th, 2010 on the VoiceAmerica, the largest live internet talk radio broadcasting company in the United States.

What’s the central theme of this Radio TalkShow Series?

The 'creative arts' are not just for the precious and gifted few, they are also 'healing arts'. The 'healing arts' are a resource for the health and well-being of anyone, at any time and any stage of life: that's the motto of the Healing Through Creativity Radio Talk Show.

Who are the guests on the show?

Each week I'll be talking to experts healthcare professionals, healers, artists, authors, performers, business men and women, innovative thinkers, parents and school teachers - people from all cultures and walks of life. Our guests will be sharing their expertise and inspiring stories with you, showing you how to apply breakthrough scientific research on health and creativity to your own life, and marry scientific facts with ancient truths to help you to live well and successfully in today's tough economic climate.

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New Series of the Healing Through Creativity Show starting THIS WEEK THURSDAY November 11th, 2010.

SERIES 2: EPISODE #1: Healing, Self-improvement and the art of mind.
This show will be aired LIVE on Thursday November 11th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
In this week’s show, we talk to psychiatrist Jeremy Spiegel, about transformation art and the mind. Dr Spiegel discusses an approach to self-improvement and healing which he calls ‘art-seeking’ as we introduce this new series of the Healing Through Creativity show in which we integrate more traditional western medicine scientific research with research drawn from other fields pertaining to the art and science of well-being.

Who is this week’s guest?
 
Dr. Jeremy Spiegel is a psychiatrist who lives and practices in Portland Maine. He treats patients in his private practice as well as as a consultant to Healthcare for the Homeless and a Portland State clinic. He is the author of Art Seeking: Interactions with Artwork for Psychological Insight and Emotional Healing (publication forthcoming). His first book, The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be, was recently praised in a review of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He blogs for Psychology Today and his website is www.artseeking.com. 
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Episode #12: Surfing Rainbows Part 2: The Treasure Hunt.
This show will be aired LIVE on Thursday September 16th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).
What’s this show about?

Consider life as a spiral of experiences, some you may see as ‘good experiences’ some you may see as ‘challenging’ experiences. One thing’s for sure – it’s not static.  Surfing Rainbows offers simple steps to optimize your energy to achieve your desires and keep you on the upward spiral of good experiences in life. Last week we introduced the Surfing Rainbows project in our discussion with Pamilla Sullivan, cofounder of the project. This week we introduce the experience in the Treasure Hunt. Join us on this week’s show for the treasure hunt. Check out www.surfingrainbows.com and find out what the Hunt’s about.
Who is this week’s guest? 

Pamilla Sullivan has a law degree and qualified as tax accountant before she studied acupuncture, crystal therapy, reiki and other alternative therapies. Pamilla co-authored the books on Surfing Rainbows to help empower the reader to reach their absolute potential. For more about the Surfing Rainbows project see www.SurfingRainbows.com
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THIS WEEK – THURSDAY AUGUST 26TH

Episode #11: Surfing Rainbows, Part 1.

This show will be aired LIVE on Thursday August 26th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?

Creativity is your birthright. Can we really use our creative energy to shift timelines - in other words, jump from the destiny our past, or genes, or culture, or life situation has set out - into a treasured life? The promise of the ‘Surfing Rainbows’, books and project, is that when you open your energy flow you attract a treasured life. Brian Baxter, blind soldier who runs marathons, enjoys horse riding and is also a motorcycle stuntman; Liz Murray, a former homeless teenager with HIV positive parents who has just graduated from Harvard; Andy Hamilton, who at age 72, record his first album which become the best-selling UK jazz album of the year; Mo Chaudry, who came to England as a boy, unable to speak English, left school with just one O-level exam pass and now runs a £60 million empire. These are just some of the people who have applied the Surfing Rainbow principles to their lives. Find out how you too can enjoy a treasured life. Join me Dr Desiree Cox and this week’s guest, Pamilla Sullivan, Co-author of the ‘Surfing Rainbows’ books and project. 

Who is this week’s guest?

Pamilla Sullivan has a law degree and qualified as tax accountant before she studied acupuncture, crystal therapy, reiki and other alternative therapies. Pamilla co-authored the books on Surfing Rainbows to help empower the reader to reach their absolute potential. For more about the Surfing Rainbows project see www.SurfingRainbows.com

Episode #10:  Your gifts will make room for you, Part 2: Write your way to a new set of beliefs.

This show was first aired on Thursday August 19th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
A sound engineer, dead in the driver’s seat of his car in Brooklyn, New York; a reverend photographing churches at 3 am in an ‘over-the-hill’ neighborhood in Nassau; a chance email about a short story. I continue the story about the evolution of Jazz CD ‘Awakenings’. This week I’m joined by author and medical doctor Lee Baumann. Lee adds the story to our river of tales of healing through the creative art of non-fiction. He talks about writing his books has literally changed what he believes about the world, his life, and his moral code. Here’s a doctor who began writing his first book as an atheist and finished it believing in God.

Who is this week’s guest?
 
T. “LEE” BAUMANN, MD is the author of God at the Speed of Light: The Melding of Science and Spirituality (one of the physics books to have inspired the popular CBS TV series “Joan of Arcadia”), Window to God (a scientific analysis of the medical diagnoses divined by clairvoyant Edgar Cayce), The Akashic Light: Religion’s Common Thread (a comparative religious text which examines the supernatural qualities of light throughout the world’s religions), The Seagu11 Project: a black hole science adventure to the center of our galaxy, and Matter to Mind to Consciousness: Anatomy of the E.L.F.  (a medical and scientific explanation for our own human awareness and thought - and also many types of paranormal phenomena). LEE has been featured in the TV documentaries "The Evidence for Heaven" and "The Search for Heaven," both Grizzly Adams productions, and has also enjoyed appearing on the popular radio programs "Coast-to-Coast" and the CBC's "Tapestry."
DR. BAUMANN is a medical consultant in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds medical certifications in internal medicine, geriatrics, and medical management.                  

Episode #9: Your gifts will make room for you
This show was first aired on Thursday August 12th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
Having explored the subject of Healing Through Creativity more broadly over the last 8 weeks we return our attention now to our main focus – the ways in which the creative arts can be healing for individuals - drawing from the rich content of our discussions during previous weeks and homing in on the specific healing gifts of the creative arts. A sound engineer, dead in the driver’s seat of his car in Brooklyn, New York; a reverend photographing churches at 3 am in an ‘over-the-hill’ neighborhood in Nassau; a chance email about a short story. I tell the story about the making of my second Jazz CD ‘Awakenings’. I’m joined by Elspeth Duncan, a multi-media artist who will also share her stories about the healing gifts of her multi-media productions.

 

 Who is this week’s guest?

Elspeth Duncan is photographer, writer, musician, film maker and interactive installation artist. She works with each medium as an individual entity and also uses them in combination to create multilayered interactive installations and experiences.  She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows and has won awards for both her photography and her film work, which has been screened at various international film festivals. Elspeth’s multi-media art is largely conceptual and interactive, drawing the viewer into the dynamics of the work. Through her art and multi-media productions, Elspeth aims to uplift, inspire, shift perspectives, provoke thought and create awareness in self and others. For her, creativity is as much of a healing modality as are Kundalini Yoga and the healing methods she practices: Reiki and SPHE-RE. For more about Elspeth and her art, check out http://nowiswowtoo.blogspot.com/2010/08/tune-in-in-two-ways.html

Episode #8: Creativity in Institutions and Corporations
This show was first aired on Thursday August 5th  9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

 

What’s this show about?
In previous episodes we powerful impact of the visual arts in healing and transformation in communities, with Early Christian communities in Europe and modern day urban communities in America serving as two rather different examples of this process. Scientific research suggests that healthcare innovations such as ‘Live music’ and visual arts programmes in hospitals improve well-being of both patients and health-care workers in these institutions. This week we explore the subject of healing through creativity as it pertains to educational institutions and corporations in a round table discussion with three guest experts:  Anne-Marie Rafferty, Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Kings College, London, and John Browne, composer in residence at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing (London) and Neil Tepper, former Creativity Consultant for Coca-cola and Universal Television (USA).

Who are this week’s guests?
                    
Anne-Marie Rafferty            John Browne               Neil Tepper
Anne Marie Rafferty is Dean and Professor of Nursing Policy at The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London and former Head of the Health Services Research Unit and Director of the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10. She was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list in 2009.
John Browne is an Irish composer living in London. He studied composition at University College Cork and at The Manhattan School of Music in New York on a Fulbright Award. His compositions include a hip-hop opera for the Royal Opera House, a trilogy of operas for the English National Opera, and a music-theatre piece created with survivors of the genocide in Rwanda. Find out more about John Browne’s compositions on:
Neil Tepper is a former creative executive with The Coca-Cola Company, Universal Television and the 1996 Olympics. He’s also an award-winning photographer and songwriter as well as an inspirational speaker. He just released his new book, “Prescriptions for Living A Creative Life.” See www.neiltepper.com for more information.

Episode #7: Emergency. I need the on-call musician. Stat! : Music and Healing, Part 2.
This show was first aired on Thursday July 29th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com)

What’s this show about?
Sound is one of the oldest forms for healing. The ancients knew the power of living word and the power of sound as a creative and healing force. In Part 1 of our exploration of music and healing we discussed the healing power of drumming with Ed Mikenas. This week, in part 2, we explore these aspects of healing and creativity in more depth with music therapist and harpist Sue Hoadley, who impacts healthcare directly through the music she plays and composes music in hospitals. Find out how you can use music in to tap into your innate creative gifts and improve your health.

Who is our guest this week?
 

Susan Hoadley, BA,CMP, is Certified Music Practitioner and with an extensive background in music in medicine. She is a recording artist, teacher, performer, and lecturer. She started the Healing Harp Program at the Heart Hospital of New Mexico in March 2000, where she plays harp and Native American flute music at the bedside of critically ill as well as chronically and terminally ill patients. She has also played healing music in hospices and dialysis centers as well as with critically ill children and psychiatric patients. Hoadley is also a Reiki Master, a Licensed Religious Science Practitioner with the United Centers for Spiritual Living and a graduate of the Healing the Light Body School of the Four Winds Society. Sue has produced five CDs, performs solo concerts on harp and Native American flute nationally. For more information see suehoadley@comcast.net and www.harpflutehealer.com.

Episode #6: PARADISE IN THIS WORLD? Community Transformation through the Creative Arts.
This show was first aired on Thursday July 22ND 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
‘Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.’ I often think of this quote by the Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott when I reflect on the unfolding of the creative process for individuals; and the healing gifts of creativity and the creative arts for communities. Most of all, it is a reminder of how the love involved in this process makes it possible to experience Paradise in this world even under the most wretched circumstances. Community transformation through public art is the subject of this week I am joined by author Rita Brock, PhD, and artist Lance Fung for a discussion of community transformation through public art.

Who are this week’s guests?
 

Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., author, former Harvard University academic and Founding Co-Director of Faith Voices for the Common Good, an organization dedicated to educating the public about the values and concerns of religious leaders and organizations. Her book Saving Paradise, co-authored with Rebecca Parker, shows how early Christians envisioned ‘Paradise in this world’ through art. For more information, see http://savingparadise.net/ and http://www.faithvoices.org/about.html.

Lance Fung is a provocative contemporary artist, independent curator, gallery owner and founder of Fung Collaboratives. Fung Collaboratives is an arts organization without boundaries. The collaborative is a leader in community transformation through the development of curatorial, commercial, and educational art events under a single umbrella. The award winning The Snow Show events in Finland and Venice, and Wonderland (San Francisco) are just two of the transformative Fung Collaborative art events. For more information www.fungcollaboratives.org.

Episode #5: Cancer Healed My Life
This show was first aired on Thursday July 15th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
Imagine being diagnosed with a life threatening disease, and realizing, at the point of the diagnosis that you never really lived. That is what happened to Annick Augier. Find out how being diagnosed with cancer led Annick to discover the healing gifts of the visual arts as she talks about her art and her forthcoming book, How Cancer Healed My Life. This week we discuss breakthroughs in scientific understanding of the workings of the brain as it relates to the visual arts, and, as usual, about how you can apply these scientific breakthroughs help you tap into your creative potential.

Who is this week’s guest?

Annick Augier is a visual artist and healer based in Europe. Her work has been acknowledged in International Contemporary Masters III (2010). Annick worked as an artist in the commercial arena in Paris for ten years before studying with the The turning points in Annick’s life occurred in Italy when she discovered her love for mural art (which lead to her studying with the internationally renowned French decorative painter Y. Guégan), and when she was diagnosed with cancer. Annick’s diagnosis lead to her discovering, experiencing and learning various techniques of natural therapies, energy medicine, transpersonal psychology and, ultimately to her following a path of personal and spiritual evolution, and self healing. She now facilitates healing workshops, using art to develop personal Mandalas for her clients. She lives between Rome and London. See www.annickaugier.isendyouthis.com/

Episode # 4: Don’t Let Kids Grow up Normal
This show was first aired on Thursday July 8th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).
What’s this show about?
Free Your Child from the Shackles of Normality! In this show, we engage Gerry Fewster, author of Don’t Let Kids Grow-up Normal, and Cathy Cather (businesswoman and mother) who applies the same extraordinary level of creativity she brings to her business, to parenting in a round table discussion of the possibility of a future where children are recognized for their inherent potential, and inspired to reach beyond the status quo and create meaningful futures for themselves.
Who are this week’s guests?
 
Dr Gerry Fewster. In this timely and exciting new book, Don’t Let Children Be Normal, Dr. Fewster, a psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working with troubled children and their families, urges us to free children from the shackles of normality. Gerry reminds us of the special individuality of each child and presents ways of helping children fulfill their inherent potential to become compassionate, creative and self-responsible. 

 

 

 

Cathy Cather, Business-woman and mother who practices creative parenting
With over 20 years experience in the health care field, Ms. Cather is well versed in employee health benefits, product and program development, consumer research, and emerging trends. She heads her own consultancy firm. Most of all, Cathy Cather is a mother who also applies her creativity to child-rearing. For more about Cathy Cather, see: http://www.catherhealthcareconsulting.com.

Episode #3: Yes you can teach your old brain new tricks.
This show was first aired on Thursday July 1st 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).
What’s this show about?
Can you re-wire your brain to help you tap into your own creative energy, create a more inspiring and successful career for yourself, change your lifestyle, or even improve your love life? Does this sound impossible? Tune in and find out. Yes, you can teach your old brain new tricks! This is the subject of my guest Patt’s new book: Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain. We'll be talking about the breakthroughs in scientific understanding of how the brain works, stress and how to heal our minds by rewiring the brain, and, about how you can apply these scientific breakthroughs help you tap into your creative potential.
Who is our guest this week?

Patt Lind-Kyle (www.healrewireyourbrain.com) has a broad range of interests. She has taught in the academic world, created a small business, practiced as a management consultant and executive coach and has had her own private counseling practice. Her research and interest in the mind/brain field led her to develop a learning style assessment company to help children and parents understand how they learn. She has been involved in the teaching and application of personality styles to individuals and organizations for the past 25 years. Her passion for understanding the relationship between the brain and the mind has come from 35 years of personal exploration through extensive meditation practice and her studies with a variety of teachers in the Theravada tradition She teaches workshops and classes using the model of brain/mind exploration and works with individuals customizing the unique way an individual can find their own path of inner exploration.

Episode #2: Music and Healing, Part 1.
This show was first aired on Thursday July 24th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s this show about?
The ancients knew the power of living word and the power of sound as a creative and healing force. This is the first of a two part discussion on music and healing. This first part introduces the subject of music and healing in general and focuses on the healing gifts of drumming in particular. Find out how you can use music, and drumming in particular to tap into your innate creative gifts in ways that bring positive benefits to all areas of your life as we talk to our guest Ed Mikenas, professional musician, drummer and certified Addictions Therapist. Part 2 of ‘Music and Healing’ can be found in Episode 7 (first aired 29th July) in our discussions about music in hospitals with Sue Hoadley.

Who is our guest this week?

Ed Mikenas is a professional musician (with a Masters Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music in NYC), a certified substance abuse counselor, and the Director of Non-Residential Services for the City of Lynchburg’s Department of Juvenile Services. His main instrument is the double bass. However, over the past fifteen years Ed has been focusing on drumming as a therapeutic tool. He’s developed his own unique method of using hand drums for healing and well-being. It is a method which is becoming increasing accepted in certain healthcare and academic settings around the US, one of these being Radford University, where Ed developed the Drumming on the Edge of Leadership curriculum for the Waldron School of Social Work.  Ed’s work as been referenced in prestigious academic journals, such as the American Journal of Public Health, as well as a book published by Oxford University Press. Find out more about Ed Mikenas and his therapeutic drumming work on www.edmikenas.org 

Episode #1: Healing Through Creativity
This show was first aired on Thursday June 17th 9am (PST), 12 noon (EST) on the Healing Through Creativity, RadioTalk Show on VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel, hosted by Dr. Desiree Cox (www.desireecox.com).

What’s the show about?
This is week I introduce this first Healing Through Creativity TalkShow series of 13 episodes. This series runs over 13 weeks from June 17th to September 8th 2010. We then take a break for 6 weeks during which time you can listen to shows from previous weeks. We return again in mid-October, 2010 taking our conversation to the next level with live shows running every Thursday 9am PST and 12 (noon) EST through to April 2011 and beyond.
Music, story-telling, drama, dancing, art? Can these pursuits really lead to you having the career, relationships, lifestyle of your dreams? In this first episode, I touch on some of the topics we’ll be discussing each week with guest experts from all culture, ethnicities and walks of life. I tell some of my own story, about how I came to discover that what we now call ‘creative arts’ are actually ‘healing arts’. And, I begin to show exactly how the arts can help you re-wire your brain, tap into your innate, creative intelligence and allow your gifts make room for you.