Wanna Write (X-Posted from _talshiar_'s journal)

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For a while now, I've been wanting to put some direction / sense of signposts into my life, but holding off for fear of setting myself up for failure. I keep treading water waiting on various insurance and legal decisions, waiting on paperwork and I'm really sick of it.

I've also been really really wanting to do some sort of art therapy, but unable to find anyone / any place to facilitate it, and have been to scared to jump right in with no 'lifeguard' so to speak.

Today at therapy I'm going to talk to my T about him playing lifeguard for me if I go thru one of the following books -

poemcrazy freeing your life with words, Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge Three Rivers Press www.randomhouse.com ISBN 0-609-80098-1

or

The Way of The Journal - A Journal Therapy Workbook for Healing (2nd Ed.) Kathleen Adams, MA, LPC, Sidran Press, www.sidran.org ISBN 0-9629164-2-0

He (T) is certainly qualified and more for this, but as it's words, not pictures, it struck me as something that would share on the internet decently and then there would be a nice peer component.

Would anyone else be interested in making a writers group on line? And if so, for which book?

I"m still disappointed that I've not been able to find an art group, but I'm kinda tired of being disappointed about that if you follow me. I want to do something. Almost anything really. But this sounds, you know, possible. And not self destructive.

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We spoke with our therapist today - we decided for various reasons that _The Way of the Journal_ would be much better to start with, tho both books had a lot of intresting things going for them, and we might work with _poemcrazy_ later.

He's a former tenured English prof as well as his current career, so I don't need to worry that he'll tell my my writing is fantastic when it is 'merely' meaningful to my self growth, and he's a good therapist so I'm not worried that he'll discourage writing that's meaninful to my self growth 'just' because it's not fastastic writing either.

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Would anyone else be interested in making a writers group on line? And if so, for which book?

Would it be a place for sharing creative work, or an art therapy group? We're interested in doing the former but not the latter.

[shadowechoes.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see some sort of art therapy group.. I used to take art therapy and I miss it a lot.

~BrokenWings

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Well, neither, both.

It wouldn't be very theraputic, at least for me it wouldn't, if it wasn't creativtive. And it's going to be word based. Text stuff. I'd love to have a paint and paper and clay art group, but I don't think doing one of those over the internet would (for me) be sufficiently diffrent from doing the art alone.

The _poemcrazy_ book actualy goes a lot deeper into the theraputic swamp than the self-consciously theraputicly journaling one. Amazing what some people do with the courage of ignorance or innocent childhoods.

Wren

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That was to sethrenn, not shadow - sorry - I miss art therapy too - I got just a taste of it in a program or two and I want it. I'm even trying to go back to school for it. Which, ironicly, may be more possible than finding any of it for me. Sigh.