How to draw grief—creative therapy
How to draw grief? When my feelings are in a jumble, I benefit from creative therapy: making rough drawings and tiny poems, for my own benefit. I wonder if you’ve tried that.
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Old writing skills: new uses for real life problems
Oh, help, my summer writing school is less than two weeks away! I’ve been preparing seriously for a couple of weeks. Now it gets super-serious, tick tock! “Write into life” brings a brand new emphasis to my work. I’ve taught writing skills to thousands of people — for poetry, fiction, plain language, digital writing, corp […]
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The healing power of writing: poems about dying wisely
On my blog Poems In The Wild, I will be posting poems about the dying and death of a dear brother-in-law, some years ago, starting tomorrow. When I wrote them, the process was cathartic and the writing helped me to process and learn from the experience. Writing the poems made me feel close again to my […]
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Writing heals: the story of Mrs D
Writing can heal. Some people discover this through therapy (or perhaps an online writing course like Write Over Divorce), and some people make it happen all by themselves. Lotta Dann was a wife-and-mother with a perfect life and a drinking problem. One day she decided privately, suddenly, independently, urgently, to stop drinking alcohol. She didn’t seek help or join AA or […]
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My first video course: Write Over Divorce
For months and months I have been working on my very first video course for Write Into Life. Topic: Write Over Divorce — how to get over the lingering pain of a broken relationship in three weeks simply by working through a series of writing exercises. Now the course is ready! It’s public! It’s available! This is an advertisement for something I’m […]
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