ReVisioning Your Life

12/09/2023

Elsie Vance Chestuen was born in 1873, her Indian name was Chestuen. Her mother was Dilth-cley-ih, daughter of the Apache Chief Bidu-ya, Beduiat known as Victorio. Elsie's father is unknown, her mother married Mangus who was the son of Mangas Coloradas, Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches.Elsie was sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on 4th November 1886 when she was 13 years old,she was enrolled as Elsie Vanci. Carlisle and other schools like this have been a contentious issue with the Native Americans, many say that children were forced to leave their families at very young age. They were forced to change their Indian names and give up their cultures, languages, and religion.
Elsie was only at Carlisle school for 3 years.On the 30th of May 1889, when she was 16 years old, she was sent to Alabama due to illness, she stayed with another Indian lady called Mollie. Elsie must have moved back to her home at some stage, as she died at Fort Sill on April 15th 1898, from tuberculosis. She was 26 years old, Elsie Vance Chestuen, is buried at the Beef Creek Apache Cemetery in Oklahoma

11/09/2023

Art therapists, social workers, and other of that ilk: Here's a wonderful opportunity to meet with a dynamic & creative Jungian analyst and create some art!

Dec 8th at Grace Place in Chicago - CEUs available!

Nora Swan-Foster, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA In-Person Only (Will Be Recorded) Friday, December 8, 2023 1–4pm Grace Place - 637 South Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605 3 CEs Available (Purchase Here)

02/24/2023

Dear therapist friends and Jung fans, check out this offering from the CG Jung Institute of Chicago. The event is Saturday, March 18, and takes place at Loyola's lake shore campus.

10/12/2022

Sometimes we just need to appreciate our own weirdness!

10/11/2022

Good afternoon, world! Is it time for a change in your life? Consider spending some time with me in order to Re-Vision Your Life!

https://www.re-visioningyourlife.com/

07/28/2018

Growing great kids!

It's hard to raise competent, confident adults if parents are always doing everything for their children.

02/24/2018

Interesting tale of culture clash and privilege.

Sometimes the best intentions to bolster identity and culture contribute to gentrification and displacement of the Black community.

02/13/2018

Parents: what do you do?

Many of these experts are also parents, and their work informs their approach to making rules with their kids about phones, TV and other media.

09/14/2017

As an antiracist white social worker, I say we've got to do better as a profession to reach out to those who don't feel we can help - because of our own cultural ignorance, inherent biases, need to "fix", etc. We also need to do what we can to encourage POC to become social workers - we need to be relevant in order for that to happen!

African Americans endure more intense and frequent mental and behavioral health issues than their counterparts, at least in part related to poverty and exposure to racism and discrimination, both of

08/04/2017

"You might expect that teens spend so much time in these new spaces because it makes them happy, but most data suggest that it does not. ... Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy."

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

07/31/2017

Have you seen this?

        Ever since I became a mother seven years ago, I have struggled to find parenting resources that reflect my visions for social justice. I am not interest...