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Writing as a Spiritual Practice
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Writing coach and spiritual guide Gay Edelman helps clients ‘compose themselves’ in writing. When imaginative touchstones are elicited and shared, it is a wonderful opportunity to move from dry clinical ground to the fertile soil of soul work. In this episode Gay describes how she is a midwife for the soul, by fostering the cross-fertilization of writing and spiritual self-awareness.
Therapeutic insight will always have its place in coaching, counselling, and spiritual guidance. However, elements usually associated with literary creativity can make the difference between a clinical case history and a vibrant life story. It is often idioms, metaphors, analogies, and archetypes, which serve to make healing sessions of all kinds truly life-giving, and the writing process itself a journey of soul growth.
This is how Gay works with the whole person, by allowing dynamics of the writing process and explorations on the spiritual journey, to converge.
Are you in the helping professions? Pay a small fee and receive CPD (clock hour certificate) for this event: https://www.courses-onlinevents.co.uk/courses/writing-as-spiritual-practice
Guidelines for Stuck Writers offered freely with proper attribution to Gay Edelman: https://deeannamerznagel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Edelman.Guidelines-for-Stuck-Writers.pdf
Writing tips: coachgay.com
Inspirational blog: gayedelman.com
Project Write Now: https://projectwritenow.org/
Books:
The Hungry Ghost: How I ditched 100 pounds and came fully alive
Case Studies in Spiritual Coaching: A Survey Across Life, Wellness, and Work Domains
This Podcast is sponsored by Onlinevents
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