Podcast with Arts and Healing Network!

So, last Wednesday, bright and early before Fresh! & I headed down to LA for the Thanksgivingness, I had the pleasure of meeting Britt Bravo to record a podcast for the Arts and Healing Network‘s bimonthly podcast. How exciting! It was my first podcast, and only the second or third time I’ve talked to the “press” (-ish!) about what it is that Writing Ourselves Whole is all about. Great practice and a fantastic opportunity!

Britt had a list of questions that she thought we might get to, which were really useful for me! I want to get more comfortable talking (more succinctly!) about the workshops, about transformative writing, about Pat Schneider’s AWA method — so that I can help to spread the word not just about my workshops but about the uses of writing period!

The podcast comes out next month, and I’ll be sure to post a link/update here. In the meantime, though, I’d like to go about answering Britt’s questions in more detail here. Beginning Wednesday, I’ll be posting an answer to each of the following questions, two per week, for the next six weeks:

1. What are the Writing Ourselves Whole workshops?

2. On your site, you describe them as “transformative writing” workshops. How are they transformative?

3. Do you believe art can heal? Why?

4. Has it been healing for you personally? If so, how?

5. What inspired the workshops?

6. What has been the impact of the workshops for survivors of sexual abuse?

7. How has teaching the workshops changed your own writing?

8. What advice do you have for a writer who wants to use writing for their own healing, or to facilitate healing in others?

9. What inspires you the most about your workshops?

10. What gives you hope right now?

11. What are you working on right now with your own writing, or writing workshops?

12. Is there anything else you didn’t get to talk about that you would like to share with listeners?

I’m looking forward to getting to provide some more detail to the answers I gave Britt. And, as always, I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

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