I have been busy marrying my new-found (and still neophyte) skills in Adobe Photoshop with the knowledge and experience gained in over twenty years as a practicing psychotherapist. The result is a series of posters that can be purchased and shipped to you from my store at Zazzle.
The posters can also be yours as a digital file. This allows you to print the poster yourself - choosing the quality of paper, size and number of copies you want. You can get more details about digital file downloads at my other blog, Pixel Dust Photo Art.
I'll share the other posters in the series as each is completed. These posters are designed as educational tools (one of my degrees is in adult education), and could be great tools in adult/adolescent learning and health care environments.
I'm excited about these posters, but it is easy to become so enamoured with your own creative work that you become blind to glaring flaws or oversights. So I would be grateful to receive your feedback!
Two of my new posters (one on defeating depression and one on conquering cancer) are available to you as FREE digital downloads. Just check my sidebar and click on the image.
We had a couple of days of snow last week and the branches of the evergreens are still laden in white. Today the sun shines and one almost needs sunglasses to protect the eyes from light reflecting on all the white. Glorious white. I love it.
Not loving the bitter cold that accompanies today's rays, however. Wish I could stay home by the fire all day, read and make some winter-time comfort food, but the dentist and some hum-drum errands are demanding my presence. Hope you are safe and warm wherever you find yourself this Winter of 2012.
If you would like to try using textures with your photographs, I have many that you can download for free on my "Free For You" page on my other blog, Pixel Dust Photo Art. Please hop on over, take a peek, and help yourself to the ones you like.
I am sharing the image in this post with Lisa Gordon's "The Creative Exchange".
Have you heard about Alejandro Junger, M.D. and his "Clean Program"? I read his book, "Clean" a few months ago and it was both a great read and an amazing eye opener. For instance, did you know that depression and intestinal health are 'intimately' connected? Junger explains how our intestines (when healthy) make much of the serotonin required for mental/emotional stability. Why had I never run across that information elsewhere in all my studies?!!
One of my daughters is following Junger's detox program right now. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow talked about Dr. Junger and his Clean Program last week in her wonderfully information-rich blog, GOOP. You can check out her January 5/12 blog/newsletter with the topic, "The Goop Cleanse", HERE.
Here's a three minute video from Dr. Junger's Clean Program Facebook site that you can watch to learn a little more about him and his approach. If you are interested in eliminating the toxins in your diet and boosting your immune system for optimum health ... Clean is a good place to start.
As Dr. Junger likes to say when signing off, "Here's to your health!".
This is a great quotation to keep in mind/heart/spirit when times are dark on a personal, local and global level. While resourses can dwindle, the love in our hearts can ever expand and be demonstrated by simple acts of kindness. We always have it in our power to 'tip the balance'.
