by Stephanie Dale | Dec 15, 2024 | Being human, Longing, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
Big missions look soooo straightforward from a distance. And then we step forward to start. Only to find we can no longer see the mountaintop for the trees. There’s an impenetrable forest in our face. This is the nature of the process! Throughout the writing...
by Stephanie Dale | Nov 20, 2023 | Slow Burn Exile, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
A word on the lost words … a deep sea diving acquaintance was lamenting the absence of interest friends showed in her underwater videos. Where she was looking for awe, in our digitised world we’ve seen it all before. “Great,” they say. “Awesome.” Yay. I...
by Stephanie Dale | Sep 23, 2023 | Ageing, Motherline, Slow Burn Exile, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
I know why old people tell repetitive stories, over and over, to people they know have heard them before and are not interested in hearing them again. I learned this from my mother, who told repetitive family stories, over and over to a daughter she knew had heard...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Slow Burn Exile, Wellbeing-through-writing
In all the years I spent traveling through rural and remote areas on The Write Road, there was a refrain, a silent sub-text, a lingering whisper in our workshops and retreats: it’s not about you.Sometimes the whisper shapeshifted into a flood, most commonly in...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Wellbeing-through-writing
“I WRITE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK UNTIL I READ WHAT I SAY.” Flannery O’Connor There’s no two ways about it – writing is good for us. I’m not speaking now of the writing of a book or a blog or whatever writing project is calling to us, although for...
