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Sarah Jefferis on Healing Trauma Through Writing (part 2)
In Episode 5 we heard part 1 of my Creative Recovery conversation with Dr. Sarah Jefferis @dr.jefferies.write.now, author, editor, coach and speaker. She recounted her story growing up with trauma and how writing served as a powerful vehicle for transforming her traumatic wounds into meaningful poems, novels, and essays. We explored what it means to rewrite a story of trauma, and Sarah shared a reflective journaling exercise that can facilitate this process. We also touched on how creativity, spirituality, and healing are inextricably linked. In Episode 6, part 2 of the conversation with Sarah, we discuss how to cultivate a healthy relationship to fear and the importance of staying present and embodied, especially while writing about trauma. Sarah also shares about her commitment to speaking out against injustice and the personal healing she has experienced raising two feminist girls.
Dr. Sarah Jefferis is an author, editor, writing coach, and speaker. Through her business called Write.Now., she offers coaching, poetry readings, presentations on diversity, and interactive dialogues on using writing as a healing modality for sexual assault survivors. Jefferis holds an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Hollins University, an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton. She has taught writing and literature at Cornell University for over twenty years. Her most recent poetry collection, What Enters the Mouth, was published in February 2017 by Standing Stone Books. It was praised by Ansel Elkins, author of Blue Yodel, who wrote, “these are fearless poems—a reckoning of the violence of girlhood rendered with grit and clarity.” Sarah has recently become a certified Yoga teacher. Her most important calling is to raise two powerful feminist girls who love themselves and who are willing to speak out against injustice. She is currently working on a collection of essays about the challenge of solo motherhood in a pandemic.
Notes and Resources:
The Guesthouse by Rumi
Little Prayer by Danez Smith
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
www.sarahjefferis.com
Insta: @dr.jefferies.write.now
This episode was edited and mixed by Chad Clarke
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In Episode 5 we heard part 1 of my Creative Recovery conversation with Dr. Sarah Jefferis @dr.jefferies.write.now, author, editor, coach and speaker. She recounted her story growing up with trauma and how writing served as a powerful vehicle for transforming her traumatic wounds into meaningful poems, novels, and essays. We explored what it means to rewrite a story of trauma, and Sarah shared a reflective journaling exercise that can facilitate this process. We also touched on how creativity, spirituality, and healing are inextricably linked. In Episode 6, part 2 of the conversation with Sarah, we discuss how to cultivate a healthy relationship to fear and the importance of staying present and embodied, especially while writing about trauma. Sarah also shares about her commitment to speaking out against injustice and the personal healing she has experienced raising two feminist girls.
Dr. Sarah Jefferis is an author, editor, writing coach, and speaker. Through her business called Write.Now., she offers coaching, poetry readings, presentations on diversity, and interactive dialogues on using writing as a healing modality for sexual assault survivors. Jefferis holds an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Hollins University, an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton. She has taught writing and literature at Cornell University for over twenty years. Her most recent poetry collection, What Enters the Mouth, was published in February 2017 by Standing Stone Books. It was praised by Ansel Elkins, author of Blue Yodel, who wrote, “these are fearless poems—a reckoning of the violence of girlhood rendered with grit and clarity.” Sarah has recently become a certified Yoga teacher. Her most important calling is to raise two powerful feminist girls who love themselves and who are willing to speak out against injustice. She is currently working on a collection of essays about the challenge of solo motherhood in a pandemic.
Notes and Resources:
The Guesthouse by Rumi
Little Prayer by Danez Smith
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
www.sarahjefferis.com
Insta: @dr.jefferies.write.now
This episode was edited and mixed by Chad Clarke