Search results for: “trauma”
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Today I celebrate . . . Prompt #500
Read more: Today I celebrate . . . Prompt #500Today I celebrate Prompt #500 on The Write Spot Blog. That’s a lot of prompts! I didn’t know what would happen when I started this blog September 24, 2003. That seems so long ago, and yet it’s only 17 years. A life-time for some, a blip for others. Since that first blog post, my daughter…
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How did I get here? Prompt #465
Read more: How did I get here? Prompt #465Sometimes we drive a familiar route as if in a daze. At some point we become aware that we have been driving unaware and wonder, “How did I get here?” Sometimes we’re at a job, either paid or volunteer, or we’re enmeshed in an activity, either fun or dramatic or both. Perhaps we’ve been consumed…
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The mind can’t tell the difference . . .
Read more: The mind can’t tell the difference . . .Today’s guest blogger is the extraordinary Brad Yates, Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping (EFT) instructor. Reposted from his 8/19/2019 Email. Reviewing the Past In spite of all the encouragement to live in the present or focus on the future, most of us are likely to still spend a fair amount of time reviewing the past. And,…
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Freewrites: Opening Doors to Discoveries
Read more: Freewrites: Opening Doors to DiscoveriesNotes from Marlene Cullen’s talk about freewrites. Scroll down for links about how to use freewrites and how to write about difficult subjects without adding trauma. I gave a talk about freewrites at the Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club. I’m sharing my notes so you, too, can enjoy the freewrite method of writing.…
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Write what is hard to admit. Prompt #435
Read more: Write what is hard to admit. Prompt #435“You don’t grow up missing what you never had, but throughout life there is hovering over you an inescapable longing for something you never had.” — Susan Sontag, excerpted from The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper continues: “As a child, you generally aren’t aware that your family is different from any…
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Mental Snapshot . . . Prompt #390
Read more: Mental Snapshot . . . Prompt #390Our minds register events like snapshots, especially stressful or shocking events. Our minds take a snapshot as if we need to remember that point in time. For example, you probably remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard about John F. Kennedy being shot or September 11th or the October Northern…
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Writing About Difficult Times In Your Life
Read more: Writing About Difficult Times In Your LifeGuest Blogger Nancy Julien Kopp writes about a topic I am passionate about: Healing through writing. WRITING ABOUT DIFFICULT TIMES IN YOUR LIFE When life hands us situations that hurt, we sometimes want to push it away, hide it in a closet. It’s too hard to bring it forth and try to deal with the…
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Guest Blogger Alison Luterman . . . Go deep into your writing.
Read more: Guest Blogger Alison Luterman . . . Go deep into your writing.Guest Blogger Alison Luterman writes about going deep with your writing. Originally posted in her May 1 newsletter. Many years ago, in Hawaii, I got a chance to go “scuba diving.” I’m putting the words in quotes because it was really pretend scuba diving for tourists. There was no training involved other than the most…