Writing and storytelling is not luxury for human beings. It’s how we survive. Re-find the natural storyteller, to move from block to flow in writing and storytelling. An article for psychotherapists, therapy clients and wordsmiths.
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The Magic of Metaphor
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.
Read MoreWriting Your Memoirs
An interview with Bridget Holding on all aspects of writing memoirs, for family, and for wider publication.
Read MoreWriting, Nature and the Self
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.
Read MoreEmbodied Writing as Therapy
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….
Read MoreNew Nature Writing
The trailblazing genre of ‘New Nature Writing’. It’s groundbreaking, thought-provoking, politically challenging, society changing. It’s awe inspiring stuff. It connects people. It’s a route to re-find the animal in us. The wild.
Read MoreAbout Clouds
In the watercolour wash blue of the midafternoon sky, clouds block the sun.
They hurl shifting shadows on to the ground below. I throw my jumper off, tip my head and spread my arms wide to wallow in the warmth.
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