Writing Practice Prescription

The 2008 Writers Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers just arrived in my mailbox. I look forward to this list each year and find that I have some favorites that I follow, such as C. Hope Clark’s Funds for Writers. Having exchanged some emails with Hope in the past (she is a neat lady), I [...]

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Are you looking for a way to impart the knowledge you wish to pass along? Then consider writing a “mentor” book. These books take the reader on a journey where the protagonist finds a mentor who guides him or her through difficult life passages. Of interest to the fiction writer, “Meeting with the Mentor,” stage [...]

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Medical students often begin their training full of idealism and hope. Keeping that idealism intact while absorbing tons of facts and technical skills challenges both them and their teachers in medical school.
Now a new descriptive study on the use of reflective writing suggests that hope lies in the use of reflective writing at various stages [...]

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One of 40 contributors to the just released book, Voices of Alcoholism: The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength, is writing buddy Kim Mallin, MD. The book’s publisher, LaChance Publishing, is donating 100% of profits from the sale of its Voices Of series to The Healing Project (www.thehealingproject.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to [...]

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Here’s a nice blog post I found while surfing the net this morning. Enjoy.
Writing as Therapy
by
Laura Woodruff, LCSW
I have found writing to be such a good tool for emoting. It is such a great way to cleanse the soul! There are some things that are not appropriate for the blog, as we all [...]

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Author Shannon Brownlee in her book, Overtreated–Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, notes that our American Healthcare system cost us $2.1 trillion in 2006. The 2016 prediction of cost soars up to $4.1 trillion.
Worse, in spite of numerous past attempts to fix the system, 47 million Americans or one in six [...]

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There gets to be a place in chronic illness where you realize that being ill is not going to stop you from living well.
–Rachel Naomi Remen
When you carry the burden of a chronic disease or health condition, life can be downright hard and seem quite unfair. Still a ray of freedom resides in the [...]

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Marlene Buckler, MD, FACEP, has arrived at a point where she thinks that she may be able to help more people not by actually practicing medicine, but by writing and speaking about it. In a recent article about her in the Pelican Press she is quoted at the beginning of the article as saying, “Stay [...]

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I just attended a conference where one of the workshop leaders suggested we take titles of our articles and enter them into Google Alerts to see if anyone else had referenced or used our work. One of my past posts was titled “Writing as Therapy.” Today, Google Alerts notified me that a post with the [...]

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Here is the handout used for a recent 1.5 hour workshop:
Learn to write your story for healing and helping
Handout for January 31, 2008 workshop
by
Ellen Taliaferro, MD
Overview

The stories you hear and observe each day weave the rich fabric of your work and personal life. No wonder that at least one friend or relative has no [...]

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