Writing and Healing Ideas
One Year of Writing and Healing currently contains 44 ideas for writing and healing, numbered 1 through 44. You can click on any of the numbered ideas below to see the full writing idea. You can also look at the writing ideas in context by visiting Year at a Glance and looking at each month in turn.
MONTH ONE: CREATING A HEALING PLACE
1. Designing a Healing Retreat
2. Freewriting
3. The Body as a Healing Place
4. The Easiest Writing and Healing Exercise Ever
MONTH TWO: GATHERING RESOURCES
6. Discovering Needs and Desires
7. Has Writing Ever Changed Your Life?
8. Buy a Box
MONTH THREE: FINDING A HEALING LANGUAGE
10. Conjuring New Images and Metaphors for Healing
11. A Scavenger Hunt
MONTH FOUR: WRITING THROUGH GRIEF
12. Falling Apart
13. Lifelines
MONTH FIVE: DISCOVERING FORM(S)
16. A Walk on a Strange Street
17. Steps for Making a Written Collage
MONTH SIX: FIGURING OUT THE GOOD PART
19. The Good Part in Other People's Stories
20. Finding a Benefit in Adversity
21. Meanwhile
22. Once Upon a Time
MONTH SEVEN: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
23. What If the Moon's a Balloon?
24. Deciding Who to Bring on the Train
25. A Memo at Your Breakfast Plate
MONTH EIGHT: HEALING AS A QUEST
26. Figuring Out Where One Is on the Map
27. What Am I Here For? (part one) ///// What Am I Here For? (part two)
28. Consulting with the Wizard of Oz
MONTH NINE: TWO STEPS FORWARD/ ONE STEP BACK: WRITING IN THE FACE OF RESISTANCE
31. Writing a Letter of Resignation
32. Keeping a Process Journal: A Long-Term Solution to Writer's Block
33. Imagining Refuge
34. The Next Step
35. My Favorite Piece of Writing Advice from Natalie Goldberg
36. A Letter for Breaking Through Resistance
MONTH TEN: WRITING AS PART OF A HEALING CONVERSATION
37. A Conversation with a Companion
38. I've Always Meant to Tell You: A Different Kind of Mother's Day Greeting
MONTH ELEVEN: PRACTICING REVISION---AND CREATION
40. A Clean Copy
41. Reading to Discover What You Most Want to Write
42. Making Peace with the Body
MONTH TWELVE: WRITING ABOUT GOALS AND DREAMS
44. Rest Hour
