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Healing -- March 19

BOSTON (CBS4) ― Today, we take a look at healing-- the act of restoring, repairing, and sometimes setting something right.

Loretta Laroche-author, lecturer and eternal optimist. One of the region's funniest comediennes, Loretta believes there's nothing more healing than laughter. In her work, she has helped millions of people find way to overcome stress, using laughter as a coping mechanism. Her techniques are a blend of her mother's old world common sense and the most contemporary research in psychology and mind-body studies.

The Sled Boy-It has been more than a year since six year old Shawn Clougherty was sledding headfirst down an icy slope near his home in Lowell and crashed into a wall. He was not wearing a helmet. Shawn's accident, reported on the news, captured all our hearts. He could have been any of our children. He was unconscious for a month before his slow and painful recovery began. Shawn is not out of the woods yet, but he has come a long way and his parents have a new understanding of what healing is all about. We visited Shawn to check on his recovery.

Burned:Phoenix Rising-John Michalczyk and Ron Marsh are documentary filmmakers working on a powerful production about the healing of burn victims. Called Burned: Phoenix Rising, the film focuses on the lives and recovery of those who lives have been changed forever by fire. The moving, graphic and heartening stories are tragic --but hopeful in their outcomes.

The Healing Garden-Gardens have incredible restorative powers, a fact to which anyone who gardens or has spend much time in a garden will attest. Rhythm, beauty and tranquility are the centerpieces of the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard Massachusetts, the center of a community of support for women experiencing breast cancer. Its founder talks to us about the nature of healing as we tour the beautiful Tower Hill Botanic Gardens in Boylston.

On this St. Patrick's Day weekend Sunday presents the traditional Irish folk music of Revels Glen.

Wine, Women & Shoes-Benefiting The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden

The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, a charitable organization that provides a community of support for those touched by breast cancer, will host a Wine, Women & Shoes benefit in Boston in 2007. New England's first-ever Wine, Women & Shoes will include a runway fashion show, featuring shoe and accessory collections by top designers. Runway models, sporting the elegant designer shoes, will be breast cancer survivors and women who are relatives and close friends of survivors.

The fashion show will be preceded by a cocktail reception and silent auction, during which guests will have an opportunity to select shoes while enjoying spectacular wines from select female-owned Napa Valley vineyards. (Date and venue to be announced.)

The Healing Garden is actively seeking Leadership Gifts by individuals and corporate sponsors for Wine, Women & Shoes. All proceeds will benefit The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden. For sponsorship and partnership opportunities, please contact event co-chairs Marlene Nusbaum or Pamela Sawyer . For more information about services at the Healing Garden, contact Lana Heino Roman or Betsy Tyson-Smith at 978.456.3532 or visit The Healing Garden online.

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