365 Grateful

Posted on: July 7th, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNuoPsT5Fc4

This week I found a post by fellow Art Therapist, Gretchen Miller, about 365 Grateful. This is was a project by photographer and filmmaker, Hailey Bartholomew, who used photography to find something she was grateful every day for a year. I found this short video to be inspiring about taking a moment to find those things for which I can be grateful.

I will soon be blogging on a new WordPress site that will be integrated into my new counseling and art therapy website, designed by the fabulous, Corinne Loperfido. I hope to launch this week if all goes as planned. For now, stay cool and
Be Well,
Laura

Deep Eddy Mural and Video

Posted on: July 5th, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54PKSzOxysg

My friend and fellow art therapist Wanda Montemayor sent me this video about the tiles we made on Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day with teen mother’s this past May at Travis High School. I think you will like it.

This past week I was also able to help with the Deep Eddy Mural Project by installing tiles down at the pool. Here I am with gloves and sponge in hand. More work to do this week.

My great great grandfather, Charles Johnson, who immigrated from Sweden, once owned the land where Deep Eddy now stands. There is historical information about him on the mural which for me was another surprise. I love Austin even in this unbearable heat.

The Work I Do

Posted on: June 29th, 2011

I ask the families I work with who are completing adoptions to send me photos of the day they complete their adoption in court. It is always a surprise for me to find an email and photo from them. It makes me grateful for the work I do. These pictures are sweet and inspiring. I got one today from a family I worked with this summer. It’s an adorable young boy looking up to his stepfather, the only father he has ever known and both are wearing ties and all dressed up. All this little boy wanted was the same last name as all of his other siblings. Now he has it. The family made him a big sign with his new name. In another image he holds it grinning ear to ear. I likes the ones with a happy ending. Send me more.