Creative Pathways - Barbara McGlamery, LCAT

08/11/2025

RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE: Make Art from your Experiences

Registration is now open for our FALL COHORT, a monthly in-person, therapeutic performance workshop (Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec) that can promise to help lift burdens and push through blocks that may be hindering your way forward. Making art that speaks to your experiences is a way to gently hold and reconsider who we are and who we might like to be. Together, in our small group, we will RE-STORY and REFRAME the rigid stories that binds us, we will RE-DIRECT and REVITALIZE stuck energy, clearing the blockage with movement, music, art, theater, performance, and joy. Whether your blockage is career, relationships, purpose, sense of self, or shedding old patterns that no longer serve, RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE can RENEW your vision and RESTORE your passion.

Sept 20th: Improv & Embodiment
Oct 18: Monologues & Parts Work
Nov 15th: Scenework & Psychodrama

Once monthly, Saturdays, 2 hours: 11-1pm EST in-person , Brooklyn NY

Register:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/restorative-performance-2025-fall-cohort

Learn More:
https://creativepathwaystherapy.com/workshop

07/09/2025

Feel like you might “overshare” in our arts and performance workshop? Fear not, watch this:

RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE is a workshop in Greenpoint Brooklyn this weekend 7/12 that calls on the arts, like movement, music, theater, and visual arts to help us find ways to get UNSTUCK, whether it’s in career, relationships, or sense of self. Each 3 hour in-person workshop culminates in an individual “performance” in a beautiful space under lights with sound and our circle as the audience. “Performance” is in quotes because while some will perform in the traditional sense, reading or reciting poetry, singing or moving to music, some will share stories and other works of art they have made. The point is to let the arts and our souls guide us more towards what we want and need in our lives right now. Link in bio or visit BECHDEL PROJECT

07/08/2025

RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE a local (Brooklyn NY) in-person arts workshop where we make art around feelings of being stuck whether that’s in career, relationships, or sense of self. Join us for an afternoon of play and performance in the beautiful BECHDEL PROJECT space in Greenpoint Brooklyn.

07/08/2025

Barb(Ara) and Maya talk about RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE

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01/11/2025

It’s surprising but this is actually shows growth. Awareness of those younger wounded selves and their protectors, even if you feel helpless, is a significant change in your internal status quo. Keep asking questions, be as gentle as you can, go slow, and seek to understand.

01/08/2025

Not AI.

11/28/2022

Hand in hand unfortunately. Being neurodiverse in this period of late stage American exceptionalism pretty much guarantees a healthy dose of chronic anxiety.

So what can you do? There are tons of googable strategies for managing ADHD, meds for anxiety, and getting active in causes important to you. But a big piece of the healing process includes understanding and having compassion for how you got to where you are right now. That’s the work of therapy.

11/24/2022

There is a real advantage to aging and it’s so weird how it’s reviled and feared.

Here is a practice: Begin looking at people’s spirits, and shine your own light, so others can see. Because like it or not, beauty fades, muscles sag, but it matters not one whit if you engage soul to soul.

11/14/2022

My response to a post that started w the words “The real reason” and then went on to self criticise.

Be cautious when you feel the “real reason” arise and it’s super harsh. It’s a tactic, and a good one to get us to pay attention.

Listen but you don’t have to heed.

11/04/2022

I said what I said…come at me late stage American capitalism.

11/04/2022

10/23/2022

What to do if you are distressed and can’t afford therapy…actually I take that back, this is for anyone in emotional distress who seeks to understand themselves better. 🛟

Talk to yourself out loud. 🗣

If it feels weird, put your headphones on 🎧and take a walk and talk to yourself. I promise no one will know. You can throw in a “Yes, Ma” to throw them off the scent if you have to.

Talk out loud 🗯, because in talking we are formulating a jumble of thoughts 💭 into what we think is the truth for us and then all the way over on the side of the head the ears 🦻 hear the words and further evaluate their truthfulness.

Start the dialogue with yourself from a place that you don’t know what’s going on in your mind and you seek to understand, not confront. Hold a “staff meeting” 📅 for all those parts of you that rattle around in your head telling you things along the lines of “you’re worthless,” etc. Approach everything and every part that arises with compassion. Be a good boss to your parts. 🔗 Trust yourself, just for this moment, that your reactions to events and people have basis. They are valid and need to be understood.

Understanding comes through compassion. 🪷

The return on investment with this activity is huge in terms of reduction of distress. Simply the practice of applying gentleness and compassion to all parts of ourselves past and present gives substantial relief in the moment. But also it ⭐️forever changes your relationship to that part of yourself⭐️ Now you’ve become a team who have a goal of healing. No longer adversaries these parts can become friends. 🌺