Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story Through Journaling

Weldon, Michele

ISBN 10: 1568387423 / ISBN 13: 9781568387420

Published by Hazelden, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story Through Journaling
• Publisher: Hazelden
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568387423
• ISBN 13: 9781568387420
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Michele Weldon understands the healing power of words. Written words. Words that come from deep within ourselves. Unedited thoughts. Uprooted recollections. Unsettled feelings.

She introduces the process of "scribotherapy" as a method of using one's own words to honor life's difficulties and blessings. It is a regimen Weldon expertly practices and shares in this instructive and very entertaining book--offering essays, exercises, and encouragement to awaken the writer in you.

About the Author

An award-winning journalist for more than two decades, Michele Weldon writes regularly for the Chicago Tribune, Personal Journaling magazine and West Suburban Living, as well as other national and local publications. Her work has appeared in hundreds of major newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, Parenting,Woman's Day, Seventeen, Bride's, and Dial. Her first book, "I Closed My Eyes", has been translated into French, Spanish and Dutch.

In 2000, Weldon earned the International Women's Peacepower Media Award for nonfiction. Her work has appeared in two anthologies, "Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates" in 1989 and "Belly Laughs and Babies" in 1997. Weldon has appeared as a guest on television shows on NBC, ABC, BBC and PBS, as well as on local and national cable stations. She has been a featured guest on more than 100 radio stations across the country and Canada, including Minnesota Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Radio. She is a lecturer at her alma mater, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels since 1996. Weldon gives her Writing To Save Your Life Workshops around the country and is a frequent keynote speaker before local and national groups.

The author lives in the Chicago area with her three sons and serves on the board of directors of Sarah's Inn, a domestic violence services agency. She is a member of Children's Memorial Guild, a fundraising arm of the medical center. Weldon is also a member of Journalism & Women Symposium, the Association for Women Journalists and the Society of Midland Authors.