Noemie von Kaenel

California/Neuchâtel Français, English, Español. Smile :), Breathe & Appreciate Life. Chocolate, Traveling, Yoga, Be strong

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@MauiElectric Paia is still out of power, had 3 on/off flicks of power at 1:30 am but still off this morning.

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That's a wrap for Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine. A wonderful documentary, watch it if you can! #writ1002

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Have hope. #writ1002

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Live for each day, for each moment more that you are alive. It is communication through emotion. #writ1002

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Medical students or professionals are so focused on diagnosis to treatment that they forget that these patients are humans too #writ1002

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We don't have time to sit down and write a novel. #writ1002

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eight year old writes a beautiful poem about cats. So innocently simple but beautiful. Children is hospitals always hurts me more. #writ1002

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Writing makes us more honest with our emotions, we are literally facing our thoughts and problems. #writ1002

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How am I contributing to my death? What is killing me? #writ1002

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We can listen to neurons when putting a probe in our brain, neurologist listens to our brain's stories. #writ1002

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We don't know what we have to share until you hit pen to paper and let the ideas flow. #writ1002

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Writing shares our experience as we want to tell it to others, but writing isn't only read, it's felt. #writ1002

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Prayer, writing, painting, works to heal but we are still unsure of how and why. But the essential is that it works to heal. #writ1002

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Neurologist says behavioral changes in the brain due to poetry & deep conversations. Our brain's plasticity changes when writing. #writ1002

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Poetry helps getting a a better understanding and self reflection of our illness and constructs our grief/illness into meaning. #writ1002

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18 year old with bone marrow disease, writes poetry for the moments that can't just be said, they must be heard with meaning. #writ1002

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Betris, 16, using dance to release pain. She has been given the toughest drugs but to her "the air softens" when dancing. #writ1002

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A new technique in Shands Hospital in Florida, USA is incorporating art, painting, writing in medicine and in hospital settings. #writ1002

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Donald Hall writes about the hospital writing to his wife's illness. Has the hospital become our destination? Illness is a journey #writ1002

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Poetry gives a voice to our inner most thoughts, fears, hope, understanding, grief and joy. #writ1002