Acupuncture and Creative Writing

Since I was a child, 5 years old or so, I wrote to express my feelings and to "get things off my chest" or to express messy emotions so they would be more outside me than inside me. Around age 10 I started keeping a diary that I kept for well over a a decade, probably closer to 20 years. Writing during my high school advanced English class honed my craft that much further as I wrote a 65-page literary analysis of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, along with several drafts of numerous essays and poems that year. I had been a writer my entire life it felt like, but I became a writer in this class.

Acupuncture, along with yoga and mindfulness, along with my connection to Grateful Dead music, have been instrumental for helping me tap into my innate spirituality and creativity. They allowed me the expansion and space to be with myself in order to much more clearly and vividly visualize and describe my thoughts, impressions, perceptions, and feelings in a way that felt like they truly represented me and my experiences.

The writings below include a selection of writings completed during a decade or more of deep healing and personal growth. I hope they paint an experiential picture for you or take you on a journey somewhere useful or interesting ~ perhaps to understand how writing can be part of the healing process. I hope this selection also makes you more curious about tapping into your own creative potential for healing and what kinds of tools (including acupuncture) might facilitate this process for you. Perhaps in this excavation and exploration process, you might also embark on a healing journey that will help others to do the same. Let us create healing that ripples...