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Authentic Voice Project: A is for Anger

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 1 (Full Moon) AUTHENTIC VOICE As we are beginning with A, I will take a moment to define Authentic Voice as I understand it. I believe we all have an Authentic Voice. It is the one that comes to us from various sources: intuitive insights dreams emotion-body reactions (such as [...]

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The House of Disrepair: A fairy tale

Posted in Fiction, Healing, tagged , , on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is a tale based on a recent dream which I worked with in my journal. There once was a little girl who lived in her father’s big, old house. Although the little girl’s father was kindly and gave her all he thought she needed and wanted, he kept her in her room to protect [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Words. Manifestations of our thoughts. Creators of our internal messages. Words have and continue to shape history and people – not always positively and sometimes with devastating consequences. Words have an affect on us, more powerful than we can rationally understand. The words we have heard all our life, depending on the context in which [...]

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An open letter to those who are human

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

C.P. Estes (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) always addresses her readers as “Dear Brave Souls.” I do not know her exact reasoning for this but I can guess that she knows how much courage it takes to live in this world, to face the pains and heartbreaks, unknowns and setbacks. But even [...]

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Natural Wisdom – in verse

Posted in Healing, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

These poems were written by a participant in one of my recent workshops, Natural Wisdom: Writing as Spiritual Voice. They are Alphapoems written in response to prompts while listening to sounds from nature. As you will read, not all are directly related to nature, but this is an example of the wonder and power of [...]

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The Word vs. my words

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

You know that feeling when a connection suddenly clicks in your mind? It is enlightening, almost joyful. I have even experienced it to be mind-boggling. Connections can be and are made all the time, connections that weave our world and those in it together. Connections – like the strands of a spider’s web – bond [...]

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Burning Rage

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on September 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This is a very personal post. It is the result of trauma that occurred because my voice was muted. I see this “dream” and the writing of it is as the whisper of my returning voice (a loud stage whisper, perhaps?).  Rage, which is a socially unacceptable emotion, especially for women, is coming forward and [...]

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Taking your Shadow for a Ride

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged on September 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I don’t claim to be a poet AT ALL. However, when starting to write up a recent dream this is how it wanted to be written… who am I to argue?! Shadow I took my Shadow for a ride. He’s heavy and oh, so very black. I tell him, Shadow, you’re too big for me [...]

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Trust the Process (pt 10): Hiding

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My natural inclination is to introversion. I usually choose to be alone rather than in a crowd. However, at my first two Goddard College’s residencies for the Individualized Master’s program I went against my own grain. I squeezed in around full lunch tables, joined in conversations in lounges, and laughed over movie showings late (for [...]

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The Little Girl who Swam with the Moon

Posted in Fiction, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts on May 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Myths, whether we are aware of them or not, are held in our psyche and influence our thoughts about others, ourselves, and how the world works. These myths can be the stories our families told us, the fairy tales read to us at night, the cartoons we watched, the magazines we read today, even the [...]

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