Free Info Session on Mapping "the Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging

Free Info Session on Mapping "the Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging  (FREE)

Maya Angelou says, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Writing about illness and lost capacity can be tricky. Many forces - shame, medical lingo, "why bother?" - can get in the way.

The meditation and free-writing circle starting on Friday April 4th (12-1:45 PM ET), Mapping the "Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging offers a supportive circle in which you can access the healing that comes from giving voice to your experiences.

In the intro session, Lisa will guide participants through a round of her "breathe/read/write" approach: a short meditation + a free-write prompts (quote or poem about illness/healing) + freewriting + sharing. Then Lisa will open the floor to questions about the writing circles that start on April 4.

Lisa Freedman is an author, activist, and professor. Her online community, Breathe/Read/Write, blends meditation and writing to cultivate free expression. Lisa has been living with chronic disease for 60 years and writing about and through it for 40 years. See her work in Satya, the NY Times, and more.