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'. — Thursday, April 11,1996 17 (ClontiiMa&ompagel) \We carried jour water with us despite those huge waterfalls,\ he says. \They have piepty of water, but you can't drink* it.\ In general,, he hasn't found his world travels, top encourag- ing,. \3*he mojtre L.travel the less optimistic I am,\ he says. \I am optimistic for the earth, but not for iuinanity.\ Gang finds the public policies of New Zealand and the Scan- dinavian countries encourag- ing. Along with socialistic spending policies r— the consid- erable expense of sunblock in New Zealand, for instance, is borne from the public purse — these include some policies we tend to associate with the right. In New Zealand, he said, \five years ago the decentralized their entire education system. It is all local. It is similar in Denmark, Sweden and Nor- way.\ People in these countries had small schools, he said, and an appreciation for childhood, tie was also touched by the affec- tion people in the Himalayas have for their children. These are places where the survival rate is not very high. k t could see mothers with their children who were in major crises act- ing in this loving way,\ he said. Expressive arts Gang calls his work \a cousin of holistic healing.\ Eileen. Mahoney, who has been involved in expressive arts th#^iy foi\ four years, ap- proaches healing through the arts. ,;! -: *When yoij connect to cre- ativity,\ says Mahoney, \you connect with a sense of your own^__l|^|^|©iyil, and flfliose of resiheifi^l^B^'^rt; doing art, you kind of help taO^e tliflrough life with a little more giface.\ She said her work is not about cr^m^^nmik capital A,\ but about helping people with their own creativity. For instance, she said, \I work with a v§ ojafan : '4ft& has a history of se_£l_ikl abuse and trauma, and I olfcen use paint- ing and poetry and movement to help her move through those feelings and issues. For exam- ple, at one point, she made a sculpture to represent the abuse, and then after that was able to write stories about each perpe- trator.\ Mahoney typically works with several forms this way. \They give you different per- spectives,\ she says. \It en- riches the experience, and gives you a deeper felt sense [of what you are saying].\ People can come to Mahoney complaining of physical, psy- chological, or spiritual prob- lems, \I dm seeing a client who experiences a constriction in her throat,\ she said. \She feels like her throat is closing. I am i. </.. <t '.*, ,. ..:.•• i^ -I- i, seeing another person who has lupus.\ , t , In treating people like these, 9hi$ ssrid, r . <f ^ ; go inio the body. She breathes in, and notices how she is feeling, and that sensation, and then I might in- vite her to draw that, or to write it. And then, after that, I might invite her to see if she wants to move it, if it has a feeling and an imago attached to it. We might have the image talk to her body. If she has a sensation iBj her body, a little gnome, maybe her body and the gnome would dialogue; she would say •Why dont you get out?'\ Mahoney mentioned ambiva- lence several times; people sometimes come to her because \they feel an ambivalence about their spiritual life,\ she said, \or come questioning how they can express their spirit in to- day's world.\ Asked if people are often trying tcf find how they can live and act in a more whole- hearted fashion, Mahoney said, \No I would say people are tremendously whole-hearted. But they are afraid to express it. There is a malaise, a dissatis- faction with where they are, and wanting to be present.\ • Mahoney will speak on \The Expressive Arts — Healing to Wholeness with Creativity and Heart.\ She practices expres- sive arts therapy in West Sand Lake and in Guilderland. She has also kept her day job, and works as a lobbyist for Bell At- lantic and Cellular One. \I hope I would be able to represent some holistic constituent as that need arises,\ she said. Holism is somewhat like re- ligion in that nothing is off limits; you can't be partly holistic. Asked if she discrim- inated among lobbying clients, Mahoney said she did. \Generally my position is that I would only represent people with values that represented my parameters,\ she said. \If I found that cellular phones caused cancer, I couldn't repre- sent them if they said they didn't.\ The eclectic Linda Costarella, mis-iden- tified in the Expo brochure as an MD (medical doctor) said she is in fact ah NT) (naturopathic doctor). \The modern natur- opath has a strong scientific ba- sis,\ she said. \In education we study the same basic sciences, and the same time, we are studying herbal remedies, homeopathy, also some ma- nipulation.\ Costarella sees patients for a long time. \They come to see me,\ she says, \and I get into their lifestyles a great deal; how they eat, what their emo- tions are, how they sleep; that is all important. It is a big picture. Our main goal is we are look- ing fOr& cause.\ 20 to promote wholeness ••<%*;••;•• .« .... Open Fri. & Sat. Night for dinner till 9 p.m. take-buts available Delicious Freshly Breaded Fish FRIDAY NIGHT • FRESH SEAFOOD -'$ >>• Honierhade/Desserts, Honlemade Salads, Macaroni,--Potato. & Cole Slaw., «fflty^^g»jjw - Thur«. ^,m>2 p.m. » Fri. 6 a.m.-9 p.m. #. • • 'I get into their lifestyles a great deal; how they eat, what their emotions are, how they sleep.... Our main goal is we are looking for a cause. 9 Asked how she discriminates among potential therapies, Costarella said the search for cause comes into her judge- ment. If they are not looking at the whole picture, I would not be- lieve in them,\ she says. One of her problems with conventional medicine, she says, is that by just treating a symptom it may ignore or even exacerbate the underlying cause. \I had a gentlemen who came in, he had a burning in his stomach. He was constantly given medications to stop stom- ach acid. He was eating Turns like candy; it was all tempo- rary relief.\ Discussing his diet with him, she learned that he was ad- dicted to milk. \He drank quarts and quarts of milk,'' she said. \One of the principals of naturopathy is that if a person has a food he is sensitive to, and doesn't stop eating it, it becomes an addiction. We got him to stop drinking milk.\ Milk tends to soothe the stomach, but it does so, she said, like antacids, by reducing the acidity of the stomach contents. In his case, she said, he had a bacterium in his stomach that preferred Announce birth BERNE —Robin and Tim Pierce of Woodstock Road an- nounce the birth April 5 of a daughter, Lauren Grace, 9 pounds and 3 ounces, at St. Peter's Hospital. She joins a brother, Zachary, and sisters Emily and Sarah at home. St. Peter's concludes annual campaign ALBANY — St. Peter's Hospital Annual Campaign '95 concluded recently, raising $950,300 for a new $1.6 million state-of-the-art angiography suite and a meditation garden which will serve as a respite for patients, staff and visitors. AMC births To Christina and Joseph Cen- ter of Altaraont, a daughter, Emily Rose, Jan. 10. Meester of Delmar, a daughter, Courtney Lynn, Jan. 15. the body much touted these days for a variety of problems. Similarly, she doesn't en- tirely eschew conventional medicine. Asked if she would see any other cause of a case of rabies than the sudden injec- tion of the rabies virus, she said, \We don't do away with the germ theory.\ Any natur- lower acidity. By making his stomach less acid, he was mak- ing his problem worse. She started a treatment with herbs to kill the bacteria, and suggested that he also take bit- ters, which would stimulate the stomach to make its natural acid. ' Costarella's first principle is that you treat people as individ- uals. Even among holistic therapists, she says, \There are going to be money-hungry peo- ple, people who treat everything the same way. We all fall into this; if you are paying atten- tion, you will get slapped across the face.\ Some natural products, she says, are just covering up symptoms. \There are crazes; I worry about Melatonin.\ Mela- tonin is a natural substance in opath who would come across rabies, or appendicitis... we would not treat it at all, or would only give appropriate adjunc- tive therapy to build up the im- mune system.\ The subject of Costarella's talk is the opposite sort of con- dition. Her title is \An Overview of Naturopathic Medicine with Specific Exam- ples About Menopause.\ Here is an entirely natural condition, treated sometimes with hormone therapy, a treat- ment she deplores. \Estrogen as it breaks down has toxic sub- stances,\ she says. \You see women who are getting uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, breast cancers; we get this [even] with- out taking estrogen; it also causes increases in all kinds of other cancer. This is unrelated to hormones, but related to the inability of the body to deal with toxins. If you have a woman who is already having prob- lems, and you give her extra estrogens, you may be able to rid her of some of her original symptoms, but make more prob- lems with the inability to han- dle the excess load. If you can get that woman instead to have a healthy system, [she will have] a healthy liver, to deal with toxins, a healthy immune system, a balance of oils in the body to produce the proper pros- toglandins. You can do that with nutrients and lifestyle changes.\ Young people get acute dis- eases that suggest treatment to drug therapy and a thoughtless return to the former good health. An aging population is increasingly subject to condi- tions like menopause; natural processes that can't be \cured but must be handled by caring for the body. Costarella agreed that this presents a great oppor- tunity for holistic medicine. But she also sounded a warn- ing: \If you think about the baby boom, women are right cm the verge. We are going to have menopause coming out of our ears. I would like you to think what this means to a pharme- cutical industry that produces estrogen. It would be millions, no billions of dollars.\ The National Holistic Expo opens at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Al- bany. Admittance to the exhibit area, which also includes a bookstore and 20 psychic medi- ums doing readings, is $5. The keynote speakers — Bernie Siegel Saturday and lyanla Vanzant Saturday — are $35. Other speakers, including Chris Evans and those inter- viewed for this article, are $15. TURKEY DINNER SUNDAY, April 21,1996 1-5RM- Knox Firehouse Route 156, Knox $7.00 Adults • $3.50 Kids under 12 • Free Under 5 Sponsored by Knox Vol, Fire Company G-»T,___ SPRING BREAKFAST Sunday, April 14,1996 East Berne Fire House Main Street OOMAT4QN BREAfCPAST To Benefit: The Basil &©m© Firo Company and Lscf/ss tiuifflm?' ;Aiau._ri.jj__w*ia*»'6w- -tk:^*.. ^ __&.._ tf__f.^ <,....,th!,Ank$L& ST.
