How it Works:
FEAT is an ongoing support group for people living with fibromyalgia. We usually meet on the first Saturday of the month, at the Women's Health Resource Center in Lebanon, NH. A typical meeting includes time for shared conversation, expressive arts work, mindfulness practice, and simple healing movement. We have been meeting since October 2016, and welcome new members at any time. If you would like to attend a meeting, simply come, or contact Julie with any questions or concerns.
Facilitator:
In 1995, shortly after finishing my undergraduate art degree, I began my studies of Vipassana meditation at Wat Khao Tham, a small nunnery on an island in the south of Thailand. I loved the experience so much that I decided to explore full-time meditation / monastic life for myself, living at Plum Village, Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn's monastery in the south of France, before joining the Thai-tradition English Forest Sangha from 1996-1999. Over the past 24 years, my meditation practice has extended into Zen, and most recently, into the embodied Tibetan-tradition practices taught by Lama Willa Miller, Lama John Makransky, Reggie Ray, and others. I now teach meditation regularly, through my home community at Just So Space, at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and in other places.
I wanted to see what it might be like to bring mindfulness into one-on-one encounters in an inpatient health care setting, so in 2012-13, I trained as a chaplain intern at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, focusing on Palliative Care and Oncology Chaplaincy. Currently, I serve the Department of Rheumatology at DHMC, facilitating discussion and mindfulness practice at bimonthly Shared Medical Appointments for people diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I see individual clients as a psychotherapist drawing on mindfulness-based, Somatic Experiencing trauma resilience, and Expressive Arts modalities at the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH.
You can find out more about my work as a therapist and how to contact me to schedule an appointment, here.
My independent practice as a contemplative studio artist includes FEAT, as well as the Inner Beauty Project, an ongoing exploration of embodied well-being; and Home / Away From Home, which invites New England communities to understand the global displaced persons crisis from the perspective of the local & the personal. I teach occasionally as a Lecturer in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College, and I am a member of the faculty at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH.
Making art, moving, writing, telling & witnessing stories, and nurturing creative communities - all of these are at the center of my life, and at the center of FEAT. I hope you will find respite, inspiration, and real listening here.
FEAT is dedicated to everyone living with fibromyalgia. I salute your honesty, courage, and humanity.
I wanted to see what it might be like to bring mindfulness into one-on-one encounters in an inpatient health care setting, so in 2012-13, I trained as a chaplain intern at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, focusing on Palliative Care and Oncology Chaplaincy. Currently, I serve the Department of Rheumatology at DHMC, facilitating discussion and mindfulness practice at bimonthly Shared Medical Appointments for people diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I see individual clients as a psychotherapist drawing on mindfulness-based, Somatic Experiencing trauma resilience, and Expressive Arts modalities at the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH.
You can find out more about my work as a therapist and how to contact me to schedule an appointment, here.
My independent practice as a contemplative studio artist includes FEAT, as well as the Inner Beauty Project, an ongoing exploration of embodied well-being; and Home / Away From Home, which invites New England communities to understand the global displaced persons crisis from the perspective of the local & the personal. I teach occasionally as a Lecturer in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College, and I am a member of the faculty at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH.
Making art, moving, writing, telling & witnessing stories, and nurturing creative communities - all of these are at the center of my life, and at the center of FEAT. I hope you will find respite, inspiration, and real listening here.
FEAT is dedicated to everyone living with fibromyalgia. I salute your honesty, courage, and humanity.