Mental Health - Widower Experience (WX)

In unserer hektischen und oft herausfordernden Welt brauchen wir Halt und viele von uns suchen nach Halt, Orientierung und Wegen, mit inneren Unsicherheiten umzugehen. Kunst und Kreativität können dabei wie ein sicherer Hafen wirken – sie schenken Raum für Ausdruck, Reflexion und Heilung – zu mindestens ist dies für mich so. Patti Smith, eine Ikone der Musik- und Kulturszene, verkörpert für mich genau diese Kraft: Patti Smith steht für Authentizität, den Mut zur Verletzlichkeit und die unermüdliche Suche nach Wahrheit – Qualitäten, die gerade im Kontext mentaler Gesundheit unverzichtbar sind. In diesem Artikel möchte ich zeigen, warum Patti Smith für mich eine Wegbegleiterin / einer meiner Role-Models auf dem eigenen, manchmal holprigen Lebensweg war und ist. Vorbild Patti Smith war und ist für mich ein Vorbild. Nicht, weil sie alles im Griff hat – sondern, weil sie nie aufgehört hat, auf der Suche zu sein. In Zeiten, in denen alles wackelt, gibt sie mir Halt. Nicht durch fer...

World Creativity and Innovation Day is a global UN day celebrated on April 21 to raise awareness around the importance of creativity and innovation in problem solving. World Creativity and Innovation Day is a day for the global community to realize that creativity and innovation are crucial for a country's economy. These forces can drive economic growth, create jobs and offer opportunities for everyone, including women and young people. They can also be used to solve serious issues like poverty and hunger. In the 21st century, the creativity and innovation of a person or a group of people are the most valuable resources a nation can have. There may be no universal understanding of creativity, but ... Creativity refers to the ability to generate or come up with new, original, and innovative ideas or solutions that are typically characterized by originality, expressiveness, and imagination. It's a process of seeing the world in new ways, breaking from established patterns or trad...

We all strive every day to appear strong and invulnerable in private life and business life. Society or community pressure us to do it - or we believe they expect that from us. In addition, we often hardly have enough time to process certain experiences appropriately, to understand what we have experienced, to assess damage, to resolve contradictions and to overcome frustration an disappointments. Catharsis is one psychological key to start the process - to find your path and go your way. Our emotions, however, might or will become into view / become obvious in chaotic ways along the way, perhaps in the form of tears of anger or sadness, but little by little they allow us to find the right words to process what we have experienced. Adrienne Maree Brown once said something which fits in this context - I think or better I like the quote: “Things are not getting worse. They are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.“  And as historical bac...

Elaine Fong's mother wanted was a peaceful end of life. What she received instead became a fight for the right to decide when. Fong shares the heart-rending journey to honor her mother's choice for a death with dignity -- and reflects on the need to explore our relationship to dying so that we may redesign this final and most universal of human experiences.