It’s wonderful how, throughout my writing career, I am learning new ideas and tips and gaining knowledge of exciting, inspirational ways to nurture my creativity. Recently, I found out about cinquain poetry. It is similar to haiku and tanka, but it has five lines. It can be written about anything you like, with an emphasis… Continue reading Exploring cinquain poetry
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The experience of Writing for Wellbeing workshops
The experience of Writing for Wellbeing workshops offers the opportunity to explore emotions and feelings you want to understand, therefore gaining insight and a deeper understanding. Writing for Wellbeing workshops usually have a theme to work with creatively. In my workshops we start with a breathing exercise or a short movement exercise, for example chi… Continue reading The experience of Writing for Wellbeing workshops
Ways of writing creatively and for wellbeing
Both ways of writing can benefit our wellbeing. Whenever we write we are exploring, consciously or unconsciously, our inner selves. We are bringing to the fore how we feel about certain issues or situations. Our writing can be fictional but despite that a part of us will still reside within it. After all, we take… Continue reading Ways of writing creatively and for wellbeing
My Therapeutic Journey
In my last post, I wrote about my writing journey which has developed therapeutically in more recent years. However, I have been interested in many different therapies throughout my adult life. I started to question forms of alternative healing in the seventies, my first port of call being homeopathy which I discovered when I was… Continue reading My Therapeutic Journey
My Writing Journey
I can trace the origins of my writing journey back to childhood. When I was a child, like many other children I kept a diary but after a while I became a little bored with that and moved on to writing stories. I loved to dream myself into writing different characters and their adventures. I… Continue reading My Writing Journey