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 | Dec 15, 2024 | Longing, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
There are 5 essential elements to the alchemy of writing practice for women who are ‘not a writer’ And then there is the 6th. Recently I wrote about The Writer’s Breath, the breathing practice that weaves the writer through the brain’s wave...
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 | Jul 28, 2023 | Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
“When you are in a car, beautiful places are a moment. When you stop the car, they are a cluster of moments. When you walk, beautiful places are an eternity carved into the soul.” I remember exactly where I was when I wrote that. I was walking through a backroad...
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...
