Learning more about how others use writing, reading and creation as a way of healing can help you embark on your own creative journey of self-discovery. Check back often to learn more about the power of creativity to foster healing and growth.
July 2010 – Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo
Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist and feminist who used art as a form of self-expression and healing.
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May 2010 – What Does Sex Have To Do With Body Image?
Dawn Zitney, Write Within Founder, is interviewed by University of New Hampshire student on sex and body image. Zitney discusses how journaling can be used to explore one’s sexual self.
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May 2010 – ‘Stroke Diaries’ Provide Insight for Survivors
In Stroke Diaries, neurologist Dr. Olajide Williams recounts heart-wrenching but instructive stories of patients and families stricken by strokes.
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May 2010 – Therapeutic Writing Promotes Healing at Fort Bragg
The following commentary was written by Michael J. Cain, a freelance writer and volunteer at Fort Bragg, N.C., who teaches therapeutic journaling to Soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
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April 2010 – Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rickers Island Book Cart
The inmates in solitary confinement are allowed to request books off a list, so we filled these requests from the “library” within this particular building, which was really just two tall shelves of paperback books in the back of the Chaplain’s office..
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April 2010 – After Loss, Turning to Poetry for Healing and Grieving
After the sudden death of his father, the poet Kevin Young looked for a collection of poems that might speak to his sense of loss. To his surprise, he couldn’t find such a collection, so he went to work compiling one. The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, Young’s anthology, came out earlier this year.
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April 2010 – The Clothesline Project
It is this time of year when the Clothesline Project goes on display in communities across the nation to honor sexual assault
awareness month. The decorated display of t-shirts, with words and images, offers a space for individuals to bear witness to those affected directly or indirectly by sexual assault.
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March 2010 – ‘The Things They Carried’ 20 Years On
O’Brien wrote parts of The Things They Carried 20 years after his service in Vietnam. 40 years since the war, he still carries it with him. Listen to the story here…
