#BCSM 2/18/13: Breathe, Create, Share, Move
The weekly #BCSM tweetchat is one of the most impressive patient/survivor communities on the web, but if you miss the Monday-at-9 p.m. period, it's hard to parse so much wonderful stuff. This is my attempt, based on the back-and-forth from the Feb. 18 chat, on creativity. Here's how it kicked off:
- We're going to talk about the light of creativity - how the arts transform experience. #bcsm
- This was well-received: the BCSM is full of artists:
- i started a site for anyone who wants to share with the cancer community cancerpoet.com #bcsm
- Hi I'm Jackie DCIS veteran, blogger, author, write poetry & so excited about tonight's topic. If you are new, welcome! #bcsm
- So it was an easy segue to question one:
- Q1: How did the arts (writing, painting, poetry - any form) help you process your cancer experience? Past or present. #bcsm
- Q1. Creativity comes from the soul. The soul can't have cancer, so it's free to create if you wish to tap into it. #bcsm
- The answers were varied. Writing was popular.
- A1: I found writing to be very therapeutic both during my treatments (journaling) and after for processing. #bcsm
- #bcsm q1 I blogged during my cancer treatment & it helped me be 100% honest. No happy face, just myself, which was bald & sarcastic.
- Q1: I had a purse-size journal I kept (and still keep) with me. At first it was for doctor appts, important info, then as time ... #bcsm
- Q1: Writing has preserved my sanity. Analysis, reflection, humor: creating all of it makes it possible to face stage iv reality. #bcsm
- As was music ...
- Q1 I relied on music when diagnosed & trying to decide what to do. Completely obsessively replayed favorite kd lang CD, couple others#bcsm
- Q1 music has always been and always will be a therapy for me. I connected with the Hawaiian music community that had my back#bcsm
- Q1 I reconnected with the themes of my adolesence in Ireland - the music and the poetry. Lots of Van Morrison and Seamus Heaney.#bcsm
- And poetry ...
- Q1 poetry also started speaking to me again & I started writing it again after a 20 year break. #bcsm
- Q1. During my 3 cancers, I consumed art (music, poetry, visual) to help soothe my soul, and I've created art to do the same. #bcsm
- And pottery ...
- #bcsm q1: I found amazing refuge in a paint your own pottery studios, have visited many during recovery. Owners are compassionate and kind.
- And the visual arts ...
- Q1. My 3rd cancer used collage to express self and create beautiful things. Did it w 2 other survivors in informal group, on our own.#bcsm
- i colored in color books, i wrote, did photography (Instagram-to-wood transfers). it all kept me present moment & outta my head#bcsm
- Q1. I have used collage, paint, ceramic sculpture. ANd, knitting and crocheting still serve as meditation #bcsm
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