This chapter examines the following mind-body topics: the placebo effect; the body as friend; discovering the meaning of our experience; risking doing something new; and reflection questions and exercises to assist in mind-body awareness—focusing and meditation. One of the goals of the chapter is to know what one&s;s own thoughts and feelings are and how they affect their body. It provides some...
This chapter presents a case study of Etty Hillesum, Kathe Kollwitz, Caroline Stephen, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila and Ita Ford. All six of these women used their talents of self-expression to build up community and to create hope in times of darkness, giving witness to the power of the integration of the human and the divine. Kathe Kollwitz shone through her expression of art. She used...