Telechat with Beth Jacobs Beth Jacobs, PhD is a long-standing expert on Writing for Emotional Balance. In this interview Beth offers basic principles and techniques of writing for emotional balance, and also talks about how some of her ideas on this topic have evolved over years of working with people and writing. This interview ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Joyce Chapman Joyce Chapman believes that journaling is a special and magical way of molding each of our life experiences into an outcome of self-discovery, learning, and joy. It empowers you to move through whatever causes you emotional pain, stress, fear, and confusion until, far back in the distance, you can view ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Meryl Cook Meryl Cook is an author, speaker, creativity workshop leader, and contemporary rug hooking artist in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She launched her hugely popular book One Loop at a Time, a story of rug hooking, healing and creativity in January 2017, selling over 800 copies in the first 8 months. Her ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Sheila Bender: Sheila Bender, writing teacher, author and Journal Council expert, will be speaking from her writing experience about using sensory information to avoid summarizing, editorializing and telling in favor of showing and evocation. Sensory images and details are what allow the writer to relive experience in reflection and gather fresh insight. ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Liz Crocker In this interview, Liz Crocker shares her experiences regarding what she has learned as a writer, as well as how she has dealt with some of her own resistance to writing. Liz also talks about some of the hidden benefits of writing and how they can lead to greater compassion ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Louise DeSalvo Many of us recognize Louise DeSalvo’s name as the author of Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Story Transforms Our Lives (1999), a cornerstone in our writing resources library. Few of us know that Louise has written 12 books and edited or co-edited five others, as well ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Sharon Bray: When life hurts, writing can help. Writing offers a refuge, a way to express all that we feel and make sense of the painful events in our lives. In this one hour conversation, Sharon will share her insights gleaned her personal experience and thirteen years of leading healing writing groups ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Polly Young-Eisendrath: Unwelcome change is inevitable. It comes in the forms of betrayal, illness, loss, or bereavement, threatening to overwhelm us with negative feelings and contractive imaginings. When change is unwelcome, we must become more flexible in our identity to embrace the lessons of loss — to see that when something is ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Roger Housden: The moments you hold closest to your chest are those which hold the keys to your life passion and love. In this telechat we will discuss how we can become more conscious of the deeper truths of our experience and how we might let down our guard enough to articulate ... Read More >>
A Telechat with Natalie Goldberg: “To find your writer’s voice is to find your spine; it is to connect your breath of inspiration with the world’s breath.” —Natalie Goldberg, from her newest book The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language We are thrilled to bring you an hour telechat with Natalie Goldberg, ... Read More >>