The Magic of Metaphor – Writing Magazine UK (2013)
Writing Your Memoirs - Saga Magazine (2016)
Wild Words: Exploring the Connections Between Writing, Nature, and the Self - Lapidus Journal (2017)
Creative Flow at 'Ways With Words' 2014 - Telegraph 'Ways with Words' Festival blog (2014)
Healing Biography: The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Life Story (2009)
Julie Spiller: Her life on a postcard. Part of the Your Life On A Postcard series. (2009)
Understand the profound implications of embodied and conceptual metaphor, and how they extend to metaphor on the page, in order to become a better writer. This article was first published in Writing Magazine in 2013.
Most of us, at one time or another, experience events in our lives that feel unfinished, traumatic, or are just highly emotional. At these times, energy can become stuck in our nervous systems. This interview was first published in Saga Magazine in 2016.
The importance of a holistic, embodied approach to storytelling (written and oral). When we re-find our wildness, and function in tune with our environment, and ourselves, we bring vitality and health into our stories, as well as into our lives.
A case study in embodiment and writing. ‘An interesting fusion’. That’s what my project ‘Wild Words’ was once called by a fellow psychotherapist, and yes, he was looking down his nose at me….
I am an integrative arts-based psychotherapist, and a creative writing tutor with a background in screenwriting. My passion is in exploring how a fusion of theories and techniques from these two disciplines might inform each other, to enable growth and healing in the therapy room and beyond. This article was first published in Spring 2016 in The Psychotherapist Magazine.