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Tag: Mental Health

On not tweeting: Open letter to Twitter

And what will I miss? Her cruelty, her unfaithfulness Her fun, her love, her kiss, part company The Go-Betweens, Part … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Brexit, Distraction, Leaving Twitter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Trump, Twitter

The Year of Living Deeply 22: James Schuyler’s consistency

What I love about James Schuyler is coming across poems I have not found before and finding in them the … More

Being a Poet, James Schuyler, Mental Health, mindfulness, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Denise Levertov’s ‘The Secret’ (LentBlog22)

This is a Saturday in Lent, so I am reposting a favourite older post from my archives. See you on … More

Denise Levertov, Health, health writing, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poems in the Waiting Room, Poetry, Poetry and Silence, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Silence, The Secret, waiting room, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

What you read in 2018

Here are my most frequently-read blog posts of 2018, according to my WordPress stats.   First, from the Lifesaving Poems … More

Ambition, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Carrie Fountain, Joni Mitchell, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Book, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Book news for 2019

Next year is going to be a big year for me. I am going to have two new books out … More

Cancer, Memoir, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission, Writing

The New York Times bestseller list

‘What’s wrong?’ says the book. ‘Nothing,’ I say. ‘Liar.’ ‘Am not.’ ‘Are.’ ‘Aren’t.’ ‘Pants on fire. You’re hopeless. You should … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Fomo, Life Lessons, Mental Health, mindfulness, New York Times bestseller list, Presence, Stationery, Withnail and I, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

On Being Chipper

  There were just a few of us in the room, gathered round a table. I had been invited to … More

Anxiety, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Counselling, Depression, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Mental Health Awareness, Remission, Remission and Counselling, Remission and Mental Health

#NaBloPoMo 14 – Some secrets

One of the signs of my anxiety is when I start to look obsessively at stationery blogs. I adore NCIS. … More

Allan Ahlberg, Anxiety, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Leonard Cohen, Life Lessons, Mental Health, mindfulness, NaBloPoMo, NCIS, Presence, Secrets, Stationery, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Process

Remission anniversary ten

The way I found out, just as with my diagnosis, was via a segment of a conversation about other things. … More

Blood Cancer, Cancer, Depression, Life Lessons, Lymphoma, Mental Health, mindfulness, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Presence, Remission

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