Hildegard Lindschinger's Blog

I was torn about publishing this particular post, until a certain little voice said, “What are you afraid of? Go ahead, keep it to yourself if you like, but remember, you can’t help anyone else unless you let an open, loving heart prevail a little over that closed, fearful mind…” Gulp. Ok, so here goes: […]

Fireworks! Wear your red and white! It’s already 149 years since Confederation, when the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick negotiated to form the Dominion of Canada. That fledgling nation of four provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario) formed the core for our modern country. The rest, […]

Garden Musings: On Changes Perennials I planted ‘round the bower Have sprung up, green, and hasten on to flower, While bulbs I placed in careful clumps last fall Bloom where the squirrels rearranged them all!   From wind-blown seeds that nestled in the ground, Forget-me-nots here blossom all around And dandelions raise their heads of […]

They’ve come and gone again, these endless Ides* That ebb and flow relentlessly as tides! Thank God they’ve lapped again upon my shore, Each crash of waves unlike the ones before. The rushing, sloshing foam sounds all the same, But sliding back, its pearls upon the sand Meander into myriad patterns, and Erased again, new […]

Torture your brain for fun? We do it all the time, disregarding the danger of acquiring time-consuming, relationship-destroying addictions (for which I prefer the euphemism “expert status”). What are we doing so recklessly? Crossword puzzles! Sudoku! Riddles! Cognitive-training games like Lumosity!  Some people even succumb to solving Rubik’s cubes, and playing chess!   It’s all […]

(…continued from My Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy). Cosmos Dancing within my Soul –  a collaborative expressive arts therapy project For a couple of weeks toward the end of our two semesters of art therapy, only “Mary” and I were able to attend regularly, along with Kimberley, our program facilitator. For us, she cooked up […]

(…continued from My Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy). There we were, six of us chemo-balded ladies, hung all in a row, faceless and pale, with our backs flat against the wall, waiting for colour. How had it ever come to this? Moments before, our live, three-dimensional selves had been taking turns with a partner, one […]

This post has been simmering for a long time… Heartfelt thanks to blogger Maria Holm of Health from One Heart to Another for encouraging me to write a post about my experience with this therapy, as a patient, and for her patience in finally getting this response. Maria was a public health care practitioner; she has a big […]

The first week of March – white and cold! We were staying in a second-floor condo in Ontario’s Haliburton Highlands.  Lake Kashagawigamog and the white mounds of rolling hills undulating along the opposite shore stretched right across the width of our large picture window and beyond. Kashagawigamog– I love the sound of this aboriginal Anishinaabe name– […]

I’m grateful for having received a lot of empathy, encouragement, good advice, and reassurance that I’m in plenty of good company, after my post on A Pain in the Butt and Other Life Lessons. Thank-you! Now, I thought an update would be in order. This caveat still stands: anything I (simply a patient) mention here or in the […]