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#MindfulnessFor #PersonalEssays #PhysicalHealthPain The Wellness Trap: What Mindfulness Can’t Fix: As mindfulness practices have gained popularity, a subtle shift has occurred around how we view these techniques and what we expect of them. Writer Angela Stubbs examines what she calls "the wellness trap" and asks: Have we lost sight of the original intent of mindfulness? And do we miss out on the true potency of this practice when we start to demand too much of it?… http://dlvr.it/TTgrFZ
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#PersonalEssays #MentalHealth #Resilience When the Therapy Room Becomes Another Closed Door: Why Traditional Western Mental Health Care Fails Survivors of Torture and State Violence : Much of our perception of what “works” in therapy is intimately linked to our cultural ideas of language, trust, and safety. Psychotherapist and human rights clinician Azadeh Afsahi examines the Western framework of suffering and restoration—and the need to reimagine mental health care for… http://dlvr.it/TTS8DK
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#ParentingFamily #PersonalEssays #Caregiver A Different Kind of Father’s Day: Nurturing Mindfulness and Care in the Garden: Father’s Day offers an opportunity to consider how we understand, represent, and talk about dads as caregivers. This Father’s Day, Liza Ruggiero considers how gardening can reinforce the essential role dads play as nurturers, while cultivating patience, attention, and connection.
The post A Different Kind of Father’s Day: Nurturing Mindfulness… http://dlvr.it/TT59bc
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#PersonalEssays #Addiction #MentalHealth Addiction, Recovery, and How Mindfulness Can Support Emotional Sobriety: When people hear the term “sobriety,” they often assume it’s just about stopping an addictive behavior. But as recovery coach Stephanie Hazard observes, sobriety is a practice that extends to every area of our lives, including our emotions—and can hold the key to long-term healing.
The post Addiction, Recovery, and How Mindfulness Can Support Emotional… http://dlvr.it/TSvDTC
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#PersonalEssays #StressAnxiety #DifficultEmotions Are Shame and Guilt Bad—Or Do We Just Need a Different Relationship With Them?: Guilt and shame are two of the most painful emotions—and yet, as much as we might like them to, they don’t seem to be going away. Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce looks at these troublesome companions, and what it might mean to live more peacefully with them.
The post Are Shame and Guilt Bad—Or Do We Just Need a Different Relationship… http://dlvr.it/TSnN2X
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#EatingBodyImage #PersonalEssays #Acceptance 5 Lessons on Vanity: An Invitation to Awareness and Letting Go: Aging and death are inevitable. And while we know this intellectually, it is difficult to accept this particularly in a youth adoring culture. Teacher Patricia Rockman explores vanity and this tender, confusing, frustrating journey with our bodies, our attachment to the delusion of youth, and our halting interior growth towards acceptance.
The post 5 Lessons… http://dlvr.it/TSJfNY
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How to Read Your Work Aloud: Writer’s Digest 6th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winner
Congratulations to Sonja Livingston, Grand Prize winner of the 6th Annual Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Awards. Here’s her winning essay, “How to Read Your Work Aloud: A Ten Point List.”
The post How to Read Your Work Aloud: Writer’s Digest 6th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winner appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-6th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winner#BeInspired #FromtheMagazine #FromtheWinners #PersonalEssay #PersonalEssays
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#Magazine #PersonalEssays #Awe How Present-Moment Awareness Can Make Life More Meaningful: When we practice present-moment awareness, we can savor each moment, make time feel like it’s passing slower, and get in touch with the fundamental wonder of being alive.
The post How Present-Moment Awareness Can Make Life More Meaningful appeared first on Mindful. http://dlvr.it/TS4WwB
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Jenny Lawson: On Embracing Creativity, Whimsy, and Weirdness
In this interview, author Jenny Lawson discusses the lifetime of collecting motivational tips and tricks that led to her new memoir, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay.
The post Jenny Lawson: On Embracing Creativity, Whimsy, and Weirdness appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/jenny-lawson-on-embracing-creativity-whimsy-and-weirdness#BeInspired #Interviews #Memoir #PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting
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https://dominusmarkham.com/the-one-that-got-away/
#businessstrategy #entrepreneurship #securityindustry #collaborationovercompetition #startuplife #lessonslearned #businessgrowth #operationsmanagement #WorkSmarter #MutualBenefit #businessnetworking #smallbusinesslove #IndustryInsights #personalessays #buildingbusinesstogether
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The Best Meatballs Do Not Exist, and Other Lessons I Learned in Italy
The “best” meatballs do not exist, at least according to Elvira, who is not technically a nonna. Though she did fit a particular American idea of the “nonna” with her stern rebukes about t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancooking #books&literature #Italia #Italian #italiancooking #italiano #italy #personalessays
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The Sparkling Moment: How to Turn a True Event Into a Compelling Story
Author Corey Rosen shares his method for how to turn a true event into a compelling story by starting with a sparkling moment.
https://www.writersdigest.com/the-sparkling-moment-how-to-turn-a-true-event-into-a-compelling-story#PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #FunnyMoments #Moment
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On Blending Memoir and Theory to Survive
Growing up trans, queer, and disabled in the rural South, books were an escape and a security blanket. How could they not be? I was a lonely child, uneasy in...
The post On Blending Memoir and Theory to Survive appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/on-blending-memoir-and-theory-to-survive#Memoir #PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #Criticism
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Writer’s Digest 94th Annual Competition Inspirational/Spiritual Essay First-Place Winner: “All the Way to Mystery”
Congratulations to Stacy Clark, first-place winner in the Inspirational/Spiritual Essay category of the 94th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Here’s her winning essay, “All…
https://www.writersdigest.com/94th-annual-competition-inspirational-spiritual-winner#AnnualCompetition #FromtheWinners #PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WDCompetitions
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On Obsession as Creative Practice
Author Bitter Kalli discusses the power of leaning into obsessions to create and how their obsession was found in horses.
The post On Obsession as Creative Practice appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/on-obsession-as-creative-practice#PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #essaycollections #EssayWriting
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In Praise of Writing the Small Story: Everyday Essays With Big Impact
Author Sarah Fawn Montgomery shares the importance of remembering and writing small everyday nonfiction stories and personal essays.
https://www.writersdigest.com/in-praise-of-writing-the-small-story-everyday-essays-with-big-impact#PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #essaycollections #PersonalEssayWriting
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My Favorite Student Essay of All Time
Author and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute Roy Peter Clark shares his favorite student essay of all time, including why.
The post My Favorite Student Essay of All Time appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/my-favorite-student-essay-of-all-time#PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #AdmissionsEssays #PersonalEssayWriting
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Announcing the 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 5th annual Writer's Digest Personal Essay Awards!
The post Announcing the 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winners appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/5th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winners#FromtheWinners #PersonalEssay #PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WDCompetitions
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If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About It
Award-winning journalist Rita Lussier shares how a chance encounter on an airplane and gift of kindness led to writing essays (and a book).
The post If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About It appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/if-the-coat-doesnt-fit-write-about-it#Memoir #PersonalEssays #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #personalessays
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"I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room." —Elisa Gabbert for The Georgia Review
https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-essay-as-realm/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Essays #PersonalEssays #Architecture
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We're accepting personal essay drafts and pitches for reported personal essays and reading lists.
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My mom @WritingItReal has been posting short-form reflections on writing from person experience on Medium. If you're interested in #CreativeWriting #Poetry #PersonalEssays follow her here and on Medium!
Here's her latest, a remembrance for her father, on Memorial Day.
https://medium.com/@sheilabender/this-memorial-day-weekend-i-think-of-my-father-253391a10da6
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Good reading in this free-to-download anthology of personal essays by Writing It Real members about holiday times, ones fondly remembered and ones the writers might want to forget.
https://writingitreal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Holiday-Times.pdf
#creativewriting #personalessays
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I'm still stumbling around in the dark here but I guess we're supposed to do some hashtagging? I'm going with:
#LiteraryFiction
#PersonalEssays
#MusicalTheater
#CrazyExGirlfriend
#Martinis
#Sondheim
#ArtJewelry
#TerriersRe: the martinis: gin only, please.
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#introductions. I write #fiction and #PersonalEssays, I'm a freelance developmental #editor and I'm a #professor emerita of #CreativeWriting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Along with #books, I love #theater, #terriers, and our fraught fragile earth. She/her/hers
(edited to add hashtags)
Here's my favorite terrier promoting one of my books:.