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I’ve written before about an amazing book called Storycatcher<\/em>s. It has made me keenly aware that it is a sacred moment when we capture someone else’s story.<\/p>\n Here are three more books that I’m finding most helpful in guiding the creation of these ten workshops.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve\u00a0been thinking a lot about what writing to heal does for us even if we choose not to share our stories. I think\u00a0we’ve all packed away a few of our own stories of\u00a0trauma and tragedy. So we’re all survivors. Writing our stories\u00a0is a lot like going into a dusty attic and pulling out\u00a0the boxes from all the corners. We don’t always recall everything inside those boxes, only that we set them aside because we weren’t sure what to do\u00a0with the contents. As we write, we pull out tattered memories. We can either look at\u00a0them and then hide them away again where they’ll\u00a0probably continue to take up space. Or we can\u00a0turn those memories over and study the texture and feel — the seams and fabric of the memory. In doing this, we might also recall why we\u00a0boxed those memories up and put them\u00a0aside. Only now we have the opportunity to see that we have little or no use for some of the memories. Or we can see that we can use the memory to see that we’ve changed our lives, or we’ve grown so that the memory no longer wears on\u00a0us. Or we see that we can still\u00a0change our own lives\u00a0and let the memory guide us but never let it own us. I’m not sure this metaphor makes complete sense yet. It’s taking shape. But I am sure this is what I’ll encourage over the weeks I work with this group.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been reading like a madwoman and researching poetry, writing to heal and memoir in preparation to work with survivors of domestic violence and sexual exploitation.\u00a0The\u00a0workshops won’t begin until June 1 but I want to make sure that everything I bring into the workshops serves to heal and to allow these survivors to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,69,67,52,62,66,64,61,50,63,65,29,54],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baldwin","tag-chavis","tag-desalvo","tag-domestic-violence","tag-hope","tag-myer","tag-poetry-and-story-therapy","tag-rape","tag-sexual-exploitation","tag-storycatchers","tag-the-power-of-memoir","tag-writing","tag-writing-to-heal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n