This Autumn I’ve embarked on training as an ecotherapist with Natural Academy, having completed the Foundation Year in the Summer. It’s an applied ecopsychology model and deeply resonates with the place I find myself in …
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A conversation in the Dwelling Place of the Soul
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Places still available on women’s writing circles
I still have some spaces left in both the Friday and Thursday Women’s Writing Circles. A fortnightly writing for wellbeing group for women – six sessions of expressive and creative writing in connection with other …
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A plug for the Lansdown Poets website
I am a member of a group of poets who used to meet in a room above a pub called the Lansdown once a month. We would have a drink and share a poem each, …
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some word bones for National Poetry Day
We have been walking each day in the woods near where we live. We feel the season changing and each day we quietly observe the differences in the woods and the sky. We talk of …
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creation with song
I recently took part in a writing exercise devised by a friend that I loved so much I’m sharing the results here (like myself, Vicky’s a writing for wellbeing enthusiast and her facebook page is …
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Writing as a way of connecting to other/s: writing on Safe and Sound
Here’s a link to a poem/ article I had published on the Safe and Sound words for well being website recently. It is a personal account of how writing links me to those I love but still …
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The power of poetry to connect us
April is national poetry month in America. Later in the year on 1 October we will see national poetry day take place here in the UK. Hopefully by then, the world will have emerged from …
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The pandemic diaries: day 2
It’s day two of my on and off line diaries whilst confined to the house with my family. I’m keeping both sorts. I have a hard copy diary which I use to process my thoughts …
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A time of rest and renewal
Winter is at it’s core the season of rest and renewal. Sometimes we need to recharge by doing nothing and live for a time in that void between harvest and spring, letting our field go …
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A poem for National Poetry Day
Today I’ve written a poem about my childhood sea in honour of National Poetry Day. I find something therapeutic about writing poems containing memories of my original home in New Zealand. I love life in …
Rachel Hawkins-Crockford 