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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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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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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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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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Trust the Process, pt. 8: I Am Matter

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“Are those really concepts? Aren’t they aspects of a woman’s life?” (Referring to the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone) “What it means to be a woman? Don’t you mean what it IS to be a woman?” “Don’t YOU matter?” … “Yes, I do matter. I matter. I AM matter.” And so go conversations at Goddard [...]

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Steppingstones to a new life

Posted in It's all About Me, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Memoir, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , , on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday morning in my journal I wrote: I am blessed with abundance. I am blessed with the answer. I am a magnet to all the resources I need. What is the answer? I need to know what path to go down today. This morning I wrote: Oh, lawd! I feel like a puzzle piece just [...]

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Quoting Natalie: Shake loose your mind

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I try to shake loose my mind, so something fresh can fall out… This process acts like a sifter – sand falls through and bright nuggets come to light. –Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning Writing for creativity While Natalie talks about “writing practice” in her book Thunder and Lightning (as she did in Writing Down [...]

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Connecting hand with mind and heart

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , on December 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Writing… digested our sorrow, dissolved and integrated our inner rigidity, and let us move on. I don’t even remember what we wrote about. It didn’t matter. The effort of forming words, physically connecting hand with mind and heart, and then having the freedom to read aloud transformed us.— Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning I read [...]

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Jour du Journal: Let me hear your body talk!

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , on November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Dialoguing with your body aches and pains to heal the past. Yesterday I had my very first massage. It was only a short one, a chair massage at a wellness fair. But in that 5 minutes the masseuse was able to tell me that I “ran cold” and that I’m “tightly strung.” Yup (brrr!) and [...]

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