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Shreveporters bring in retreat leader Paula D'Arcy to discuss mindfulness

Paula D'Arcy, president of the Red Bird Foundation, gives dozens of retreats each year on gaining perspective in life and how to bring meaning to it.
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Paula D'Arcy, president of the Red Bird Foundation, gives dozens of retreats each year on gaining perspective in life and how to bring meaning to it.

Author and retreat leader Paula D’Arcy who turned a personal tragedy into her life work and mission will bring her message to Shreveport May 1.

Paula D'Arcy, president of the Red Bird Foundation, gives dozens of retreats each year on gaining perspective in life and how to bring meaning to it.
Credit Submitted / Red Bird Foundation
Paula D'Arcy, president of the Red Bird Foundation, gives dozens of retreats each year on gaining perspective in life and how to bring meaning to it.

In 1975, D'Arcy lost her husband and 21-month-old daughter in a car accident. She was pregnant with her second child at the time.

D’Arcy launched the Red Bird Foundation in 2001 to help people grow spiritually and to find inner peace. A dozen Shreveporters are sponsoring her retreat. D’Arcy of Austin, Texas, says these women have been to her retreats before and support the vision.

“They believe in what healing does for the world. They believe that, as I’ve taught so often, if our pain isn’t transformed, then our life really stops at that place,” D’Arcy said, who writes books on the subject.

D’Arcy’s half-day program will show how defining moments in life -- especially the terrifying things like a diagnosis or accident -- can bring clarity. Pain, according to D’Arcy, can be an opening to the possibility of something that wasn't there before. D’Arcy helps retreat attendees find meaning in ordinary days through storytelling.

“We get so we-can-almost-do-life-without-showing -up, and so I always try to call myself back to that place of being as open as I was at the beginning when my worlds fell apart and listening again and saying what am I really being summoned to in this life?” D’Arcy said.

The retreat is titled “Finding Our Way.” It takes place at Broadmoor United Methodist Church, 3715 Youree Drive, on Friday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.

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