by Stephanie Dale | Nov 28, 2024 | Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
The writers in our programs who complete their books or other writing projects have one thing in common. They commit to The Writer’s Breath. The Writer’s Breath is a practice I introduced a decade ago in all workshops and events, from media training to...
by Stephanie Dale | Nov 5, 2024 | Ageing, Longing, Pilgrimage, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
In 2007, I flew to Rome to walk with my son across Italy and through the Balkans. In sublime understatement, you might say the pilgrim bug had bitten him, hard – he had walked from Canterbury and was on his way to Jerusalem. On our third night out of Rome, just...
by Stephanie Dale | Nov 4, 2024 | Ageing, Being human, Longing, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
Two encounters with friends recently reminded me of the alchemical power of writing, The first was at my book launch last weekend, when in conversation with Judy she wondered out loud: “I don’t trust words. “People use words and I don’t...
by Stephanie Dale | Oct 31, 2024 | Being human, Longing, Pilgrimage, Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
A wise old woman once told me about FEA. Anna is a mystic whose life is a prayer to wisdom, and she is old, of the legendary kind. It was Anna who told me about FEA – fucking enough already. It’s only when we’ve had enough, said Anna, that we make...
by Stephanie Dale | Sep 26, 2024 | Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
It is a new writer’s reality – it’s every writer’s reality – that writing inspiration comes upon us at the most inconvenient times. Just as we’re falling asleep. Shopping at the supermarket. Dreaming in the dead of night. I remember...
