photo by Spirited Images taken at First Friday, Denver Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, April 2008

If you are looking for practices and possibilities for

• recovery
• wholeness and health
• written expression
  • personal
  • recuperative
  • creative
• breaking the bonds of eating disorder, addiction, compulsion
  

look here for the comfort of companionship and for guidance of your path.

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With Kate Thompson, MA, CJT, author of Therapeutic Writing: An Introduction for Professionals, Carolyn presented Expressive Writing for Health and Trauma Recovery: Tools for Counseling Practice at the 2015 Colorado Counseling Association Conference. For a copy of the presentation, click here.

Writing ideas to give you a happier holiday season and a deeply, authentic start to the new year:

• Gratitude: A Gift to Yourself
• When Talk Runs Dry: Recovering Your Secret Garden
• Looking Forward: Conjuring Up the Path of the New Year

For ideas on the value of personal writing in recovery and on overcoming blocks to expressive writing, see Carolyn's "Writing for Recovery Series blog posts: A Guide to Journaling and Self Discovery" at the National Eating Disorder Association web site.

• A Practice of Personal Writing in Recovery Takes Too Much Time (Or Does It?)
• Writing Can't Help My Recovery (Or Can It?)
• Facing the Blank Page is Scary (But it Doesn't Have to Be)
• When Writing Makes You Feel Worse (But Could Help You Feel Better)
• Writing Can Feel Lonely (But Could Be a Best Friend in Recovery)
• Writing Brings Up My Inner Demons (And is a Great Place to Confront Them)
• Writing Requires Talent That I Don't Have (But Who's Telling You That?)
• Writing Can't Help Me Make Decisions (But it Could Give You Clear Perspectives)
• Writing Can Get Boring (So Spice it up by Going Deeper)
• Writing Comes out Flat and Dull (But Could Vividly Capture Moments)
• Writing Daily Details Doesn't Shine Light on the Bigger Picture (But a Few Steppingstones can Illuminate a Lifetime)
• Looking Back at my Entire Life Bogs me Down (But Recapturing One Period of Your Life can Bring it in to Light)
• Writing About a Significant Relationship Can Lead to Writing in Circles (But a List of Steppingstones can Straighten Things Out)

To see Carolyn's poems and learn more about eating disorders and resources for recovery, please visit:

Hunger Speaks - National Eating Disorders Association web site.

For infomation about support for eating disorder recovery in the Denver metro area, please visit:

The Eating Disorder Foundation