Writing can empower people. Poetry, essays, memoirs, fiction — all demand the writer reach down into her soul for honest, unvarnished feelings. Sometimes writing can help people find out who they really are. Rebekah Spivey helps writers — professional and non — open up their hearts, and learn to ignore that pesky nay-saying voice in their heads, as a certified Facilitator for Women Writing for (a) Change. Spivey’s new book will be released this fall by Holon Publishing.

Host Michael Glab chats with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.