In her journals, Anais Nin once wrote, "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection . . . We write to teach ourselves to speak to others, to record the journey into the labyrinth." This is only one of the many quotations, exercises, and meditations in this book by Susan Witting Albert. The author has been teaching autobiographical writing for a decade. She is convinced that it is a therapeutic way of processing experience, an edifying inner journey, and a healing art.
Albert includes many examples of writing from her workshops and has organized this paperback around eight thematic clusters. Readers will find themselves tapping into rich sources of personal meaning as they explore beginnings and birthings; achievements, gifts and glories; body; loves, lovers and lovings; journeys; visits to the valley of shadows; and much more. Writing from Life concludes with suggestions on how women can establish a story circle.
