In-Versing Your Life

Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson
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Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson is a prize-winning poet and a pioneer in the world of poetry therapy. This podcast takes one poem and relates it to the current day, then challenging the listener to write.

  1. 11/02/2020

    23. Why we’re so divided?

    🗳️ Elections are close and people find it harder to talk to one another. 0:43🧐 Looking through different lenses showed me something different. 1:34👂 'Sound principles' a poem from 'Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns' book. 2:46🧠 What kind of lenses had people who made fun of smart girls? 5:06🧨 Why are we so divided and have so different lenses to look at the world? 6:27🕶️ All the lenses we need to get rid of. 7:55📖 Poem 'Number Three' from a book 'Between Tahlequah and Tulsa' 9:16⛩️ When you live in different places. you have to remove lenses to understand a different culture and people. 13:09📝Poetry assignment: think about the lenses you wear and if those are stopping you understand people around you and vice versa. 13:53🗣️ Try using awareness of lenses in and try to talk with someone that you couldn't talk to before.15:29

    16 min

  2. 10/30/2020

    22. A Caring Community

    🏙️ 00:15 There is always somebody to help you in Tulsa. 🐦 01:06 Canada geese's community spirit is strong. 🪁 01:53 Poem: "Migration" 💞 04:15 The poem is based on a true story - wild geese sacrifice for the one who is not as strong. ♿ 04:55 Mr. Gustavson, who is in a wheelchair, is often helped by others, too. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 05:36 "And that's what I wish for you, that you have a community." ⛑️ 05:59 "We need one another. We need to care for one another." 🧒 06:20 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her book, Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/please-use-this-for-children-not-for-war-and-guns/

    7 min

  3. 10/29/2020

    21. Loss

    ✝️ 00:15 There are funerals where nobody shows up and funerals where there are many friends and relatives. ⛪ 01:23 Not all the relatives could get to the funeral of Cynthia's Dad because the church was full. 🥀 01:54 "Loss has so many ramifications to it." 📖 01:58 Cynthia introduces a poem from her therapy book "In-Versing Your Life", which can also be found in her e-book, "I Don't Write Love Poems" 🌧️️02:25 Poem: "Loss" 🩹 04:07 We have to learn to live through the loss, it's inevitable. 🧶 04:54 Small losses help us deal with major losses. 🔗 05:37 Visit Cynthia and find out more about her books, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/

    6 min

  4. 10/27/2020

    20. Double Helix Twisting

    🏥 00:15 Both Cynthia's mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. She wrote a poem about that. 📕 01:06 The poem can be found in the book "Re-Versing Your Pain" 👩‍⚕️ 01:27 Poem: "Double Helix Twisting" 👙 07:56 Remember to check yourself regularly! 🌱 08:15 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

    9 min

  5. 10/20/2020

    19. What I Hunger For

    🍁 00:15 It's a privilege to live out at the lake house. It is so quiet and the fall is beautiful. ⛰️ 00:38 Cynthia talks about what inspired her book, "Between Tahlequah and Tulsa." 🧅 01:14 Poem: "Number Two" 🙃 03:10 Do you think that you are approaching things from upside down? 🎯 03:39 Are you direct when you want something? 👁️ 04:01 What are you hungry for? 🤗 04:25 Think about the time when what you had was enough in your life. 📚 05:10 Watch for Cynthia's new book and, in the meantime, visit her at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her other books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

    6 min

  6. 10/19/2020

    18. The Grid in My Brain

    🥶 00:15 Cynthia muses about how it finally got cold in Oklahoma. 🧭 00:51 Today's poem is a new one, exploring the symbolism of the sides of the world using the "grid". 🌐 01:38 The "grid" exists everywhere - you always know the sides of the world. ️🎙️ 02:00 Poem: "The Grid" 🧩 03:10 This week's question: how do you see the entire world through the grid of your first home?  ‍ 🏫 04:17  "...as we get older, the only way that we learn something new..." ❔ 05:10 Is that working for you? 📲 06:02 Visit Cynthia at  http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her book, Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

    7 min

  7. 10/05/2020

    17. How Change Helps Us Grow?

    😇 What makes us change from day to day?  0:57😮 The whole concept of change is about nurture. 1:44🎙️ Cynthia reads a poem 2:43🪕 Music has always been a big part of Cynthia's life. 6:02🎶 Music her Dad played opened a door to a whole another world to Cynthia. 7:18🤔 What heritage did you own that made you different from other people? 9:41🤔 Who or what shaped you as a teenager? 11:10🌳 Each decade brings fresh changes—positive and negative. 12:53🦄 'I used to be, but now I am' exercise. 16:00🌷 'I used to be a flower but now I'm a broken stem.' 17:15💟  I am now, but I will be. 19:03https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/

    21 min

  8. 10/02/2020

    16. Who am I? # 2: About the soil

    🧩 Poetry is a puzzle, and I make up my rules. 01:14📖 A poem from the book "Conversing with God, poetry for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction." 2:05🐦 About the poem  Catbird 1609 C 2:24😊 Cynthia reads a poem. 3:54🤓 Birds are so programmed. 5:40🌱 Exercise: What is growing on my soil? 7:20👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Are our siblings growing in the same soil as we are? 10:04🤩 Exercise: using your name as an acrostic poem to describe yourself. 14:29

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Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson is a prize-winning poet and a pioneer in the world of poetry therapy. This podcast takes one poem and relates it to the current day, then challenging the listener to write.

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  • Creator
    Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson
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    Copyright © 2020 Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson
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    In-Versing Your Life