Category: Poetry Therapy

• Why Leafology?

  

  how I came to this name for my practice…

  susannasays

  July 17, 2025

  #Leafology, art, BLOG, connection, creativity, expressive art, expressive writing, gratitude, learning as lifestyle, poetry, Poetry Therapy, resilience, rising, rising above, spirit, thinking out loud, transformative language, truth telling, visual thinking, words, writing

  philosophy

• A Benediction for 2017

  by susanna suchak adapted from “A Blessing for the New Year” by Kayleen Asbo (dedicated with gratitude to Mike Prepsky who always inspires) As the presence of light begins to grow with each passing day may the fearful places in your heart unclench their grasp on your life; may your courage blossom and bloom.  …

  susannasays

  January 3, 2017

  art, balance, contentment, creativity, expressive art, expressive writing, mindfulness, poetry, Poetry Therapy, resilience, rising above

• #bounceback

  Caregivers are compassionate. It is their nature. For most humans it is their nature and very natural to care. It can be an exhausting job though. Sometimes the compassion well feels pretty dry and empty. Oftentimes, caregivers are not the first to notice the symptoms of empty well or exhaustion until they are just about…

  susannasays

  January 5, 2016

  art, balance, compassion, compassion fatigue, contentment, creativity, depression, describing feeling, disappointment, equanimity, expressive art, expressive writing, fun, gratitude, Lapidus, mindfulness, paying attention, Poetry Therapy, resilience, rising above, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, service, thinking out loud, visual thinking, work, writing

  #bounceback, compassion fatigue, depression, expressive art, expressive writing, poetry, recover your self, resilience, think, visual thinking, writing

• November’s post

  Since it is a month of remembrance, I wanted to share a poem. Not everyone goes to war, but most of us have battles to fight day-by-day. Please read of a kind of battle that people like my grandmother may have had to live as they spent their lives grinding out a living as a…

  susannasays

  November 9, 2015

  compassion, connection, deeply, mindfulness, poetry, Poetry Therapy

  poetry, Poetry Therapy, Transformative Language., Wordscapes

• Because…

  Today Patti Digh called her blog Poetry Wednesdays and it gave me the idea for this. We have had FOUR days of sunshine in Owen Sound and Juno came nowhere near. But my cousin, Dawn Walker lives in Saugus, Massachusets and they got whacked. I’ve shared this poem at Page to Stage and it seemed…

  susannasays

  January 28, 2015

  balance, connection, deeply, depression, poetry, Poetry Therapy, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, snow, storms

  #BellLetsTalk, #Leafology, depression, SAD

• Thirsty Thursday …

    Today it rains. Il pleut. Interestingly enough in French Il pleut can also mean “he cries” or is it “he is crying/weeping”? At any rate, I think the French have it right … for the rain often makes people a little misty-eyed. Strangely enough, not me, not today. Perhaps it is because I have…

  susannasays

  November 6, 2014

  balance, connection, contentment, learning as lifestyle, poetry, Poetry Therapy, rain, spirit forming, thinking out loud

• Poems to Ponder … a new feature

  Every day blusters anew more yellow, gold, red, brown leaves dance down and down delighted to join brothers and sisters as they find their rest on earth and in earth as I would do and will do sooner than perhaps I would prefer   Autumn’s Grace susanna suchak Monday, November 3rd, 2014

  susannasays

  November 3, 2014

  balance, connection, equanimity, mindfulness, poetry, Poetry Therapy, spirit forming, thinking out loud, truth telling, visual thinking

• Planting Seeds …

  Today is Labour Day. The group I spoke to last night paraded in Port Elgin this morning. They will partake of a well-deserved BBQ this afternoon. I have been a member of CUPE, the OSSTF and grew up as the child of the CAW. I know that my life was the better for that. So…

  susannasays

  September 1, 2014

  gratitude, poetry, Poetry Therapy, rising above, service, thinking out loud, work

• Monday’s Musings

      Spent a most delightful morning in the presence of a wonderful woman. What an indulgence. Sadly, an indulgence we often deny ourselves. To be with someone who fills our cup and loves us just as we are in this present moment. An act of mindfulness that is also a gift to self. I am…

  susannasays

  August 25, 2014

  balance, contentment, deeply, equanimity, gratitude, Poetry Therapy, Uncategorized, writing