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The Power of Creative Arts to Mental and Physical Health. Observations on the 2024 Veteran's Creative Arts Festival in Denver Colorado.
I don't want to be clinical or scholarly as I write this because there is plenty of information and evidence based work that supports the...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 23, 20243 min read
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Medication and Suicide: An American Panacea
There are things that I am not ready to write about. Things I may never be able to commit to the page. It is too fresh, this wound, open...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 22, 20242 min read
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Empathy and the un-unsaid
I was so angry, so pissed off at her dying, on her journey toward death because it did not go as I expected. A death neatly tied up, a...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 22, 20241 min read
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For Vaughn Flora. Future Days.
Yesterday the hawk followed, doing aerials and dancing in the wind This small gift broke through the grief, briefly filling the deep void...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 22, 20241 min read
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Covid and Moral Distress
Although the worst of it is over, COVID changed the landscape of the nursing profession and how nursing professionals view their jobs,...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 22, 20241 min read
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Room 36
I remember him and when I close my eyes, I can see myself, standing in his room, looking down at him. This is by design; you can’t help...
Cynthia Douglas-Ybarra
May 22, 20243 min read
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