HeyJaredWendy Brown-Baez
Wendy Brown-Báez is the creator of Writing Circles for Healing and facilitates writing workshops in community spaces such as healing centers, state prisons, and spiritual centers.
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Writing for Healing (opens the original)
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Dear Friends, I learned that healing at the deepest levels depends, not only on nutrition and the healing of the immune system and stress responses, but also and especially on the healing of identity. Every person brings something of great, magnificent, and unrepeatable value into the world, and that inner light is not more or less than the light that exists in any other person. To come to know and experience your value, and then to not see yourself as one-down or one-up to anyone else - well, t
Musing on the Writing Life (opens the original)
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Writing for Healing (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,When we sit down to write for the purpose of processing or reflecting on our difficult experiences, it is important to recognize that we may come across memories that are too painful to access or we may get stuck behind the story we told ourselves. A change in perception helps us understand that our recall of events may not be accurate. We may have to try to write about it from a different angle, with the present self looking back with compassion, tenderness, and insight. We’re all
Musing on the Writing Life (opens the original)
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Self Compassion (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Today I want to talk about self care, and how important it is. We tend to think of self-care as a bubble bath after a hard day, or a trip to be in natural settings, or a box of chocolates. And of course these things are a great way to decompress. Instead of self-care, I use the term self-compassion. Self-compassion is a way of life. It means nourishing the body with good food, hydrating, sleeping well, taking breaks, being in community, spending time in nature even if it is just pla
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