Recovering from a Stroke: A Creative Approach
August 11, 2015
Hosted by Virginia L. Colin, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Stephen Schwertley needed to recover from an unexpected stroke. To do so, he challenged himself to start writing a book! Writing the novel helped this aspiring author to heal from his stroke-related complications while focusing on his life-long dream of publishing his works. “These ideas had been in my head since my college days and I just had not taken the time to get them onto paper,” he said. The result was the novel “Enemy in the Heartland,” which has been called a terror plot page turner. In this show, we discuss symptoms of a stroke, some complications, and the treatment Stephen received, including his self-prescribed creative writing as therapy.
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Virginia L. Colin, Ph.D.
Virginia L. Colin, Ph.D is an author, speaker, professional family mediator, Director of Colin Family Mediation Group, and a Founding Member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM).
Having survived a nightmarish divorce, Dr. Colin actively supports divorce reform efforts, teaching people how to take a lot of the pain, financial cost, acrimony, and trauma out of divorce. She also loves learning and teaching about building healthy relationships and solving family problems long before anyone has a reason to consider divorce. She has been a foster parent, a married parent, a divorced single parent, and a remarried stepparent.
Formerly a research psychologist studying attachment and other aspects of human development, Dr. Colin has been providing family mediation services since 1999. She specializes in helping couples and ex-couples develop co-parenting plans and financial agreements that support their children’s security, self-confidence, and healthy development as well as their own adult well-being.
Dr. Colin has published two books, “Human Attachment" and "The Guide to Low-Cost Divorce in Virginia: How to Do It Yourself.” She has also written a variety of articles published in journals and on the Internet.
