by Alissa Wolf

This psychic doesn’t wear a turban and gaze into a crystal ball, or predict the meeting of tall, dark, handsome men.

This rather angelic-looking strawberry blonde prefers business suits, and her clients usually have four legs and a tail...

Editor's Note from Cathy Alinovi: There are many paths to animal communication, just as there are many paths to each of our career choices. When we get where we are meant to be, the match is clear to all those around us. The beauty of Emerald DuCoeur's match as an animal communicator is pet parents understand their pet and work for a better life, or afterlife, together.

Animals & Pets

Editor´s Note from Karen Adler: An art therapy patient speaks about her art as being 'a window into her inner world' which gradually opened up her ability to speak about her experience of psychosis. An art therapist speaks about his work as maximising the use of the arts in the health realm and as assisting with destigmatisating mental health problems.

Arts & Art Therapy

Editor's Note:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission in l971.  He and Commander Alan Shepard were on the lunar surface for 34 hours and walked directly on the moon for nine hours and seventeen minutes.  On Mitchell's return to Earth in the Kitty Hawk Command Module, he had a remarkable experience that changed his life and redirected his entire career...

Film/Video

by Dean Quick

Most days I come in to work knowing what to expect, in reference to environment, client behavior, songs I may use, staff member conversations, etc.. I think this is true for most people who have maintained the same job for an extended period. I think there is something in this comfortable frame of mind and space that allows us to burnout...

Editor's Note from Bernice Chu: An issue that all therapists face at some point of their career is burn out. Dean Quick writes about how to stay well aware of signs of burn out, and suggests a few things we can do as therapists to avoid it.

Music Therapy & Sound Healing

by Jenn Bender

St. John of the Cross gave us the term dark night of the soul, but it is a theme that has been written about by almost every great poet and mystic. Love and dark nights of the soul, the two extremes of living...

Editor´s Note from Karen Stabley: The dark nights of the soul sounds like something that you would want to avoid. These are the parts of the human journey when you lose a loved one or treasured relationship, face career disappointments, aging, illness, or realize the ongoing dissatisfaction with life. This article by Jenn Bender is about honoring these fragile periods in our lives to delve into the souls deepest needs and finding restoration. It is the art of finding meaning and healing.

Arts & Art Therapy 

by Laurence Kingston

Rhodes Scholars are selected not just for their outstanding academic achievements, but also for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead.  A Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano that was described by the New York Times in 2001 as having a “shimmering, ethereal sound”. Both of these very different Rhodes are exceptional...

Editor´s Note from Karen Stabley: Music is an incredible form of art that can serve many purposes. It can be used for relaxation, distraction, expression, or prayer. Music can also be a very powerful meditation, just as washing the dishes or walking can be. Music is just one example of an activity that you can make richer and more satisfying by putting awareness into it.

Arts & Art Therapy 

Interviewed by Eden Kozlowski
ATH Co-Editor of Meditation and Meditation Forum Moderator

Sarah McLean is the director of Sedona Meditation Training and Retreats. Often called the face of mainstream meditation, she has been teaching meditation and mind/body health programs since the early 1990's. She worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra for over eight years and was one of the founding directors of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Throughout her career she has studied and worked with prominent figures such as Debbie Ford, Margot Anand, and Gary Zukav. She also served as the director for Byron Katie's School for the Work. Sarah spent months in an ashram in India, taught English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns, lived in a Zen Buddhist Training Center, attended the Ayurvedic Program with Dr. Lad at Mount Madonna… and now she brings all of her talents, experience and relationships to her practice in Sedona. 

Join ATH’s own Eden Kozlowski and our very special guest, Sarah McLean, as they illuminate the surprising reasons that Sarah began meditating and the profound reasons that she continues to this day...

Meditation

by John McManamy

"You will accomplish more than has ever been accomplished," wrote Haydn at the beginning of Beethoven's career, "have thoughts that no other has had. You will never sacrifice a beautiful idea to a tyrannical rule, and in that you will be right. But you will sacrifice your rules to your moods, for you seem to me to be a man of many heads and hearts. One will always find something irregular in your compositions, things of beauty, but rather dark and strange."

Music Therapy & Sound Healing