I've written for my own healing and well-being since I was a child, which lead me to complete my Master's degree in Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. For many years, I worked as a therapist and created an adaptive expressive writing program for people affected by acquired brain injury.
After my first child was born, I experienced an intense bout of postpartum depression that took me two years and some change to work through. During that time, I lost touch with my bandwidth to write longer works. Micro-journaling - getting anything, even a word or two - out onto the page became my lifeline. I purchased a plain, spiral-bound notebook and named her "The Dark Mother Chronicles". I put ALL of it in that journal - and it got me through.
I'm now pregnant with my second child and working against the clock to re-establish my Self as a writer. In addition to writing for healing and self-care, I'm excited to take a stab at a fiction novel. I love urban/paranormal fantasy, dystopian, sci-fi, magical realism - anything that feeds my love of all that is weird, mysterious and ineffable. I'm sure having a project where my imagination can run wild, build worlds, create characters and have fun will nourish my creative impulse once I return to "babyland" in early 2020.
In addition to being a newbie fiction writer, I write poetry, creative non-fiction and personal essays that appear on Medium.com and serve on the Board of Directors for The Institute for Poetic Medicine.
After my first child was born, I experienced an intense bout of postpartum depression that took me two years and some change to work through. During that time, I lost touch with my bandwidth to write longer works. Micro-journaling - getting anything, even a word or two - out onto the page became my lifeline. I purchased a plain, spiral-bound notebook and named her "The Dark Mother Chronicles". I put ALL of it in that journal - and it got me through.
I'm now pregnant with my second child and working against the clock to re-establish my Self as a writer. In addition to writing for healing and self-care, I'm excited to take a stab at a fiction novel. I love urban/paranormal fantasy, dystopian, sci-fi, magical realism - anything that feeds my love of all that is weird, mysterious and ineffable. I'm sure having a project where my imagination can run wild, build worlds, create characters and have fun will nourish my creative impulse once I return to "babyland" in early 2020.
In addition to being a newbie fiction writer, I write poetry, creative non-fiction and personal essays that appear on Medium.com and serve on the Board of Directors for The Institute for Poetic Medicine.