The healing art of photography
I am intrigued by an article I have been reading today written by Psychologist Judy Weiser, director of the PhotoTherapy Center. “From my work as a psychologist specializing in using photos to help people heal, I believe that we can deepen our relationships and even our self-awareness by looking more carefully at our photographs”, she writes.
My favourite tip of hers is to find your most positive photo—of a beloved person, a treasured place, or yourself looking radiant—and carry it with you. When you’re feeling down, look deeply at the image. Looking at a photo of happier times will put you right back there again, and leave you feeling the same way you did when you first experienced it.
I don’t carry it with me, but the picture above is the first thing I see each day as I boot up my lap-top. It was taken earlier this year in Florida with one of my dear friends, Cathy. It reminds me of the wonderful Sunday we spent together having lunch and hanging out together in the Florida sun. Today as I look out at the rain outside my window and am snuffling and sneezing with a cold, I am transported back to that day filled with sunshine, friendship and love and it brightens my day.
What are some of your favourite photographs that bring back happy memories for you?
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Actually looking at the happy smiling faces and the sunshine in your picture has made me smile 🙂 I am off now to dig out happy memories of my own in my photographs.
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My wedding day photos bring back joyful memories for me.
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Photographs of my nieces and nephews 🙂
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I love to surround myself with pictures of my family and I on vacation
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My two cats – Harry and Henrietta
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I have always been a camera freak: pinhole, Polaroid, 35mm, panorama, underwater, 8, 16 & 35mm movie cameras and now digital. The medium has never mattered as long as I could make images and document where I’d been. Since breast cancer, I’m more interested in where I’m going, however, all of my past photos are in storage and, like old friends, I miss them.
XOXOXO,
Brenda
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One of my favorite photos is one taken of my daughter with my mother right before my mother became really sick with the return of her breast cancer. They are standing arm and arm together in her backyard and just look so happy. Now that I have breast cancer myself, I keep that photo out and it reminds me that my mother is still “with me.” It always makes me feel better when I look at it.
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Marie I have never thought of a picture that way but the picture I currently have associated with word press with my Pink fight like a girl hat that was given to me by a friend says I will make it. I also now like the picture of me completely bald with a smile on my face. Those two pictures say if we can get through chemo we can get through anything!
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