It’s no secret, I love poetry. It is an art form that captures the beauty of language, but it is also a powerful tool that has helped me cope with life’s challenges. In honor of World Poetry Day, I’d love to share with you how I have used poetry to navigate difficult times. When I face challenging situations, I can sometimes find it hard to articulate how I feel. Poetry gives me the freedom to express myself in a way that is both personal and universal. Through poetry, I explore my emotions, fears, and loves in a way that helps me process and make sense of them. For example, in…
heart and soul
Heart and Soul
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Allow and Align: The power of letting go and being in flow.
Allowing and aligning are two different concepts. However, I happen to think that you can't have one without the other. Let's take a look at each separately and how they work together.
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Healing words: How writing poetry can help you find meaning.
Here are some ways I have used writing poetry as a tool for finding meaning, and how you can get started writing your own poetry for the purpose of healing yourself and others.
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Discovering your power: 4 ways to overcome feeling cornered.
*Sometimes we are pushed into corners so we will learn to break down walls. -a pathway no one knew was there.
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3 ways deep writing helps to mother teens.
I’m a mum. Those of you who are mothers know what that really means. My kids are teenagers now. Again, those of you who are parenting teens understand what I really just wrote. For those of you who don’t, I’d explain but I can’t do the impossible. There are some things you know not to even try. Nothing and Noone could prepare me for mothering teens. No matter how many times other mums said things like ‘it’s a rollercoaster’ or ‘get ready for the ride of your life’ or ‘don’t get whiplash’ still I could not understand the emotional white-knuckling that was ahead of me. I have smart kids. They…
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7 journal prompts to nurture your inner wild.
To experience the best of life, our inner wild must be nurtured. The following 7 journal prompts were created to call attention to your wild side and help you remember who you are.
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3 Reasons Why Everybody Should Attend a Therapeutic Writing Retreat.
I believe in reflection, connection and the joy found in writing your own wild and beautiful story.
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5 comforting poems for the bereaved.
Words can be therapeutic.
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How to find the wisdom you need.
Wisdom is truth applied. To gain clarity and find direction, we must first understand what is going on in the heart and mind; we must seek to pinpoint the lies we have adopted as truth.
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5 expansive thoughts to lift your life.
Expansive thinking moves us beyond ourselves and allows us to enter the realm of possibility. It is a marriage between the real and imagined.
