March 2019 – Rachel Hawkins-Crockford

Month: March 2019

What are your raw words telling you today?

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 29, 2019April 25, 2019

One of my tutors used to emphasise the importance of your raw words, written now, in this moment. The words that might arrive unbidden when you sit down at your computer to write, or scribble …

Bristol, climate change, nature, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 7

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 28, 2019May 1, 2020

grass feel my wet feet sunlight touch my warm heartbeat earth taste my tongue This is the last poem in the seven day challenge I set myself on National Poetry Day to write a haiku …

Bristol, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, haiku, nature, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 6

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 27, 2019March 20, 2019

leaf bursting outwards into light, into colour done with Winter fasts

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, haiku, nature, Poetry, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 5

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 26, 2019March 20, 2019

fragments of our life strong, tall William who tells me skipping is joyful

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, haiku, nature, Poetry, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

How do you take care of yourself?

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 25, 2019March 19, 2019

We all need to look after ourselves, even if it is only in order to help us support other people in our lives. When life gets chaotic or we feel as if we are overwhelmed …

Counselling, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, self-care, wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 4

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 25, 2019March 20, 2019

slanting through dark trees tender light, fragile seedling to a bright clearing

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, haiku, nature, wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 3

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 24, 2019March 20, 2019

birdcall sweet and sharp untroubled invisible across the garden

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, haiku, nature, Poetry, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 2

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 23, 2019March 21, 2019

bird on frayed edge blossoms of white snow cloud-fluff shadow made of words

Poetry, Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 1

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 22, 2019March 21, 2019

first light finds its way the sky spilling its colours across our counters Why have I chosen haiku? There are so many reasons, here are just a few: I like to write about the natural …

Poetry, Writing for Wellbeing

National Poetry Day: A poem a day keeps the doctor away

Posted by keylifetherapy on March 21, 2019March 20, 2019

Writing and reading poetry can both help us improve our mental and physical health. In William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-And-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017, Penguin Books) poetry is prescribed to be …

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, Poetry, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing