These are
books and audio recordings I have found inspirational and helpful in the past
several years. There are Amazon.com links for those items available through
Amazon.com. Please let me know of your favorites and new discoveries that
are not listed.
Lifelines: How
Personal Writing Can Save Your Life
by
Christina Baldwin
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Christina Baldwin presents her deepest insights in this one audio
learning course. With her intimate, personal examples and plenty of practical
exercises, listeners will discover how writing is a lifeline that makes sense of
chaotic events, guides them through life’s transitions, and empowers them to
achieve their goals. The program includes 13 Lifeline cards to keep Baldwin’s
most powerful writing exercises close at hand.
Christina Baldwin has taught nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s,
and has contributed classic books in the emerging bodies of knowledge around
personal writing, group process and spirituality. Her first work, One to One:
Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans, 1977, rev. 1991) is a
pioneering text that has remained in continuous print for a quarter of a
century. Her marvelous sequel, Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a
Spiritual Quest (Bantam 1990), extended the art of journal writing to
spiritual practice. These titles have sold over 150,000 copies.
Janet McCallen:
I participated in Christina's workshop "Self as Source
of the Story" on Whidbey Island in December, 2004. This is as close as you
can get to being at the workshop without taking a week out of your life to be
there. I loved listening to Christina's soothing voice, and her stories
fired me up to go home (I listened in the car) and write. If you write
because it's the way you make sense of your world, you'll love this, and it will
make your writing experience deeper and richer.
