I haven't written here for seven months.
After a couple of years break following a period of blogging most days for over a year, I thought I was ready again to connect in this voice, in this forum. I wrote the first blog, below. It felt true. Then nothing else came.
I tried forcing it, but it was clearer than ever that forcing anything only fails, at least in a paradigm of authenticity. So I waited. I climbed inward. I allowed space for the inwardness and started writing for myself again. And in that writing I found the truth.
The truth is that writing is everything for me right now. It is what I need to do and what I want to do. And I want to continue to facilitate this process from a therapeutic perspective for others. So I am making space for my own writing this fall, and also for the first time adding a second therapeutic writing group to my professional commitments.
I have little else to say.
That said, reading more again is an important part of my writing and growth, and I am wanting to share those treasures I have found with others, so check back soon for my reflections on Dani Shapiro, Jennifer Louden, and others.
And, if you're looking for creative writing classes, check out Firefly Creative Writing--my favourite! Chris, Britt, and Danette's loving, smart, and insightful facilitation at two retreats this summer was just the chocolate my soul needed to embrace writing again, more deliciously than ever.
