Tag: writing for healing

Life Writing Finding your inner poet

Finding your inner poet

By Karyn Braveheart Words without a tune, paper without a picture  Nights without the moon, lessons without a Lecture Love without a heart, years without a season Hold onto your poetry, it’s within you for a reason…  l encourage everyone to share their own inner poet. Poetry is a way...

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Dear Diary Being true to yourself and others through writing

Being true to yourself and others through writing

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I think it’s time my past was made public. I’ve always felt ashamed of it, I suppose, though I realize now I shouldn’t feel this way. I haven’t done anything wrong; I’ve just had an illness. From my memoir A Girl Called Tim Whether you are seven or 70, writing...

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When the eating disorder is all you can hear

I have suffered with an eating disorder (ED) for 18 years and I don’t know how to break free … I would like you to share  strategies for those times when my ED is the only thing I can hear.  – K. I just want to take ‘K’ by the hand...

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