Writing Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:32:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 My Free-Write Life, Medical Update, & Blizzard Photos (all over the place, like me) https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/ https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:37:13 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5387 I had the chance to do three free-writing sessions in the last week. Free-writing offers me an opportunity to be prompted by some brand new idea. It provokes writing I don’t always expect and helps me consider and reflect on the present (and the past) in new ways. I love doing it in community as […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/feed/ 6 Clinical Trial Possibility / Medical Update & Free-Writing https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/ https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:12:55 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5381 A week ago today I was supposed to start my third round of treatment for my second #ovariancancer recurrence. It was going to be a chemo infusion or pill and Avastin. But, a few days before my appointment I got a call from my oncologist, Dr. P, who told me there is an opening in […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/feed/ 6 Permission to be human in a pandemic, please https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/ https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:41:03 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5046 I have a single mom friend who is caring for a baby, a 16-year old, and working full-time. Her name is Heidi. This is the same friend, with an ACE score of 10, written about here a few years ago. This is what she posted on Facebook (and gave me permission to share) the day after Governor […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/feed/ 0 Miss Diagnosed: Patient 3155175 https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/ https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:26:34 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5024 It’s ovarian cancer awareness month. I didn’t always know that, but I know it now.  I have cancer.  Ovarian. Advanced.  I have advanced ovarian cancer.  It’s hard to put those words together. It’s been two weeks and five days, and that’s only starting to feel real.  What I want is to believe I’m still in […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/feed/ 5 Writing is My Sacred Space https://healwritenow.com/writing-is-my-sacred-space/ https://healwritenow.com/writing-is-my-sacred-space/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 14:29:56 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=4947 I’ve missed free-writing and being part of a writing community. So, I joined an online workshop every other Saturday with Donna Jenson of Time to Tell. It’s been so much fun, even when the writing goes deep and into hard cracks and crevices, it doesn’t feel hard, it feels fantastic and wonderful. Though I say, […]

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