Literary Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 A Few of My Favorite Quotes about Why Writing is Healing https://healwritenow.com/a-few-of-my-favorite-quotes-about-why-writing-is-healing/ https://healwritenow.com/a-few-of-my-favorite-quotes-about-why-writing-is-healing/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:34:25 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3288 I worship quotes, song lyrics, poems and all words gems of wisdom. They’ve been tree trunks I lean on, flotation devices I hang on when thrashing in the water and even the mouth that speaks for me when I have had no words ready to form. I love that writers speak to and through time. […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/a-few-of-my-favorite-quotes-about-why-writing-is-healing/feed/ 1 Quote – World Loving You https://healwritenow.com/quote-world-loving-you/ https://healwritenow.com/quote-world-loving-you/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:45:30 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3200 “When you are young and have the feeling you’re loved, you sort of feel it’s the world loving you.” George Saunders

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/quote-world-loving-you/feed/ 0 The Poetry of Patty Cogen is Breathtakingly Beautiful & Brave https://healwritenow.com/the-poetry-of-patty-cogen-is-breathtakingly-beautiful-brave/ https://healwritenow.com/the-poetry-of-patty-cogen-is-breathtakingly-beautiful-brave/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:09:45 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3154 These are the poems from Patty Cogen and her book (seeking a publisher now) – The Flip Side of My Skin. I want to gush endlessly about her talent but for now will give her writing the space it deserves to speak directly to you including her own brief introduction. I must say thank you […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/the-poetry-of-patty-cogen-is-breathtakingly-beautiful-brave/feed/ 2 Anne Lamott Tweets About Caitlyn Jenner and Gets Schooled by Her Son: What We Can Learn from Them Both https://healwritenow.com/anne-lamott-is-still-my-idol/ https://healwritenow.com/anne-lamott-is-still-my-idol/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:14:59 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3129 Anne Lamott f’d up. Big. Yup – the sensitive, hilarious, brilliant, neurotic, astonishingly genuine and gentle, talented writer Anne Lamott. I was so disappointed. The Anne Lamott who famously writes fiction and non-fiction about recovery, pregnancy, faith-seeking, single motherhood, grace, a complicated childhood and  sobriety while being a liberal Christian. And menopause. The Anne Lamott who […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/anne-lamott-is-still-my-idol/feed/ 0 If You Fall in Love with a Writer She’ll Still Be a Writer If You Break Up https://healwritenow.com/if-you-fall-in-love-with-a-writer-shell-still-be-a-writer-if-you-break-up/ https://healwritenow.com/if-you-fall-in-love-with-a-writer-shell-still-be-a-writer-if-you-break-up/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:25:48 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3120 “I fell in love with your words,” he said. He loved the word necklaces I hung on his chest and being the subject I defined, described and delighted in.   “I loved your words—not you,” he later said, at the end, to cut me, as if I would differentiate the two.   “Stop writing about […]

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