Real Life Stories
This is where I get a bit vulnerable and share my own real-life stories about mental health, healing and striving to live a creative, slow-paced life. You’ll also find writing tips that I find particularly useful, strategies to start a practice of writing and tutorials for creative techniques.
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Want to write better? Start Journaling!
Journaling can sometimes get a bad rap. There are those who do not consider it to be "real writing". Personally, I think that anyone who puts their words on paper IS a real writer. And the benefits are astronomical. My own personal journaling practice is to write for...
The healing powers of writing.
I believe, with every ounce of my 4ft11 body, that writing holds intrinsic healing powers. There is endless research that shows the correlation with writing and healing from trauma, a decrease in stress levels and an increase in connectedness to life. But mostly, I...
My evolution of healing through the written word.
*trigger warning: mention of suicide. I’ve used writing as a tool to explore my feelings for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first poem when I was around the age of seven. I had been living out in the countryside with a huge garden and a cow pasture in my...