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My Father’s African Heart
MY FATHER’S AFRICAN HEART By Adriana Marchione As I write this, I am flying back to the West Coast after a trip to help my family bury my father’s ashes in a green burial site next to Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Virginia. The cemetery, run by Cistercian monks, is in a beautiful setting surrounded…
Read MorePsyched Magazine Interview
INTERVIEW WITH ADRIANA MARCHIONE: USING ART TO HEAL GRIEF by Traci Ruble on September 10, 2015 I went hunting for earbuds so I could snuggle up in a cafe and watch Adriana Marchione’s documentary film, When the Fall Comes, about her process of using art to overcome some massive loss in her life. I was sitting there drinking…
Read MoreDefending Creativity
DEFENDING CREATIVITY The necessity of art in a crisis-driven world “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”– George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright It is easy to forget how fundamental art is in our daily lives. Art surrounds us with pleasure and enrichment. We eat ‘art’ as culinary cuisine at home and…
Read MoreA Story of Addiction and Recovery
Ripening Seeds Article / March 2008 Published in the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Newsletter To Begin Again: A Story of Addiction, Recovery and Renewal Adriana Marchione, MA, REAT, RSMT I forget my song My life an upside down dream Lost, I chase whispers* ‘Be‘, Drawn at an expressive arts recovery retreat Where to begin…
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