Focus – Rachel Hawkins-Crockford

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Developing a regular journaling routine

Posted by keylifetherapy on June 17, 2019June 14, 2019

There are so many views on how often and when you should try journaling, why doing this at all might be good for you, what you could write about etc etc but what I’ve found …

Counselling, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, Poetry, self-care, Uncategorized, 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

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

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

Doodling

Posted by keylifetherapy on April 12, 2018March 19, 2019

Lately I’ve returned to an old past-time: doodling. It’s something I did a lot as a child and a young adult but I never knew back then that this absentminded past-time was actually good for …

Counselling, Focus