Writing

Writing For Healing

Life is hard - that's why there is art!
Writing is for healing.
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Storytelling is for freedom.
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Stories need to be witnessed.
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Most of all, your stories need to be witnessed by you. ​​

I am passionate and invested in helping you find the healing benefits of writing and storytelling in your life.
Check out my latest offering Write of Passage: Therapeutic Writing Program. This program is designed to work for you! Write the way you want to write and then receive support, compassion, prompts, and guidance to go deeper into your personal-growth journey and your expressive writing process!
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My Writing History
Journaling has been a regular part of my life since I was an adolescent. Over the last several years, daily journaling and spiritually-channeled writing became a morning routine that I look forward to as a way to start each day.
Through the ongoing normalcy of daily writing - inspiration, creative ideas and innate desire to lean more into art as a coping strategy became, what I now see, as a natural byproduct of regular artistic expression. Simply put - art begets more art. The more you sink into your artistic side, the more you will find wants to be expressed.
My history with goal-oriented writing started when it seemed like a "logical idea" to write self-help material in 2014 as a means to mitigate my professional burn-out and to find new ways to share the skills, insights, and tips that I had learned from years of client service. Unfortunately, I found writing self-help manuals boring and uninspiring.
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I abandoned the writing I was doing when I found a Creativity Coach to help me find my “true” voice. I began writing creative non-fiction and personal essays and found this way more relieving and satisfying! From there, I was invited by a friend to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where I was, for the first time, challenged with "making stuff up" rather than speaking truth and wisdom for the healing benefit of others.
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My first NaNoWriMo character was a burned-out therapist who took a month sabbatical in what turned out to be a haunted house. Of course, hi-jinx ensued. I found fiction writing purely delightful and a fun escape! I have since completed four NANOWRIMOs and have been utterly fascinated by all the ways writing can be used to treat our human ailments.
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I am now honored and thrilled to be writing my first novel with the help of Stanford's Novel Writing Certificate program. ​
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My Self-Help Writing
After a lot of struggle, I finally found my self-help writing voice when the The Soul Reason book series inspiration came to me. This book series was not only a passionate project for me to share the wisdom I have gained from working both psychologically and spiritually with others - but books make this information easy to digest and accessible to all. I am so excited to announce the fourth and final book in the series will be out in 2025!
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In addition to writing books, I am now a contributor to the New England Psychologists online publication where I write a monthly column on running a private psychotherapist practice.
My Storytelling
Through my explorations of using the written word as a healing and beneficial escape, I started to explore oral storytelling due to my love of folklore – particularly ghost stories.
I entered a Story Slam to try my hand at personal story telling, and was amazed at the power that telling a five-minute story to a quiet audience held. After the Slam, I began self-educating on storytelling. I had a huge face-palm moment when I realized that my profession as a therapist was, in fact, this whole time, working in the healing art of story telling!​​