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Archive for Writing for Health and Well-Being

Writing About Dementia

The benefits of writing and journal keeping through the experience of dementia.

Pools of Poetry: Word Art Collage

Wordle of learning from a course on word arts collage, an introduction to poetry therapy.

A Prescription for Poetry: How Writing Keeps Us Well

Prose poem singing the praises of poem writing to keep us well, to keep us sane

Why We Need Poetry

A loving exploration of the benefits of poetry in a logical, rational, sadly insane kind of world.

9 Possible Ways That Writing Changes Things

How writing can open up a sense of creativity, playfulness, the freedom to dream, and explore what’s possible.