Writing routes : a resource handbook of therapeutic writing / edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson ; foreword by Gwyneth Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-238).

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Writing Routes: A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Getting into Writing -- Writing a Journal: A Way to My Soul -- Natalie's Golden Mantras -- Writing Yourself Forward -- Writing 'Kingfisher' -- Poems Invite Us to Write Them -- Relaxing into Writing -- Happily Ever After ... And Then What? -- 2. Forging Identities -- Writing Dreams -- The Whole Picture -- Letter to a Stranger -- Processing the Momentary -- The Mincer Character -- A Rose by any Other Name Might not Smell as Sweet -- Lucy -- Dodging Rednecks with a Grudge -- Writing Barefoot -- 3. Writing the Self -- Black Sheep in the Family -- People on My Bus -- Midnight Robber -- Writing as a Process of Coming-to-Knowing -- Writing Inspired -- AlphaWrites: 26 Days to Transformation -- Writing Loops -- Finding Your Racket Voice -- 4. Writing the Body -- Finding Beauty in an Ugly Situation -- Listening to Body Signals: Triggers from the Past -- Straight from the Hip -- Dealing with Chronic Pain -- Broken Face -- A Poem -- In Watching You I See Myself -- Creating a Legacy Out of Everyday Living -- 5. Writing the Troubled Self -- Cracks -- The Blue Gate -- Giving Perspective -- The Year the Wall Came Down -- Stories from the Silk Tent -- 6. Our Families, Ourselves -- Time Capsule -- When Melancholia Strikes, Poetry Steps In -- The Legacy of Mothers -- For Those Who Wish to Sing, There is Always a Song -- The Clock and Me -- Come In -- to the Life of the Poem -- Never Rub Out, Never Throw Away -- 7. Relationships -- The Healing Fountain -- Burning Want -- Leaving Tortilla, My Cat -- Wall Writing -- Invoking the Ancestors -- A Dreamlike Story of Imagination -- A Heart-shadow Fell at Our Feet: Writing a Sequence of Love Sonnets -- 8. Personal Loss -- To a Gold Ear-ring, Head of Nefertiti -- The Final 'Good Bye' -- Something We Need to Learn to Live Alongside.

Close Up, From a Distance -- Writing My Mother's Obituary -- 'I'll Never Forget' -- 9. Managing Transitions -- Writing, Waiting, Rocks -- The Door -- Do the Work: A Writing Exercise that Turns You Around -- Using Dialogue to Move On with My Life -- Writing a Sketchbook -- When I Get Old -- 10. Developing Mindfulness -- Mindful Moments -- Writing a Haiku -- Lost Heart -- Loneliness -- I Have a Dream ... -- Conversation with a Ponderosa Pine -- Frustration and Me -- Searching My Soul through Cyberspace -- 11. Signals, Lines and Reflections: Writing on Trains -- Appendix 1 Writing Routes Map: Themes -- Appendix 2 Writing Routes Map: Types of Writing -- The Editors -- The Contributors -- Bibliography.

Writing Routes is an essential roadmap for anybody setting out on the journey of self-discovery through words. Seventy contributors from a variety of different backgrounds and circumstances explain how they came to write a particular piece and why, how they found ways of transforming their experience into writing, and how it was beneficial to them.

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