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WRITING AS A LIFELINE: A conversation with Cali Bird and Christine Wolf.

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Books by Cali Bird

• Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Practical ways to lead a fulfilling life and still pay the mortgage

• Tales of the Countess

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Books by Christine Wolf

• Pre-Order Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship

• Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church

• Storied Stuff Volume Two: Show and Tell for Grownups

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Christine Wolf, Host

Christine Wolf is a trauma-informed memoir coach, developmental editor, and publisher of Writers' Haven by Christine Wolf on Substack. She's a former opinion columnist with the Chicago SunTimes and the Chicago Tribune and a StorySLAM champion at The Moth. She's a contributor to the anthology Relative Strangers, the co-author of Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The Lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church, and a contributor to Storied Stuff Volume 2. Get in touch with Christine.

Cali Bird, Guest

Cali Bird writes the Gentle Creative Substack where she talks about lessons learnt as she discovers a chronic sense of self-love and a side-order of resilience. In the last few years Cali has dealt with severe burnout, recovery from long-covid and a tragic accident where her husband sustained a traumatic brain injury. Her approach to life is totally different from a few years ago when everything was about productivity, achievement and pushing through. Now it’s all about joy, love and being kind to herself. As well as her Substack, Cali also writes fiction and has recently started coaching again. She has practised Buddhism for nearly forty years.

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