Gabriele Rico, author of the bestselling Writing the Natural Way, offers this instructive and inspirational book to show readers how to use their own creativity to achieve deep psychological healing and growth. Rico presents a multitude of valuable exercises and introduces a new technique to lead the reader to gently face and examine unexpressed pain.
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Gabriele Rico (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976) authored the best-selling Writing the Natural Way (Tarcher/Penguin, 1983, 2002) and Creating Re-Creations: Inspiration from the Source (2002). She is co-author of several textbooks, including Discovering Literature (Prentice Hall). Forthcoming is Write to Fly Again, focusing on directing human emotions constructively through writing.
Bridging the humanities and the sciences, Rico speaks widely on the application of brain research to writing, to learning, and to creative process--most recently on the roles of improvisation, play, and time-awareness in creative engagement. She developed Clustering, a tool to tap into the brain's self-organizing process, which has found its way into textbooks on writing and journaling, and into computer software used in schools everywhere.
Honored as San Jose State University's President's Scholar in 1986, she was selected Teacher/ Scholar in 1993. In 1992 she held an Endowed Chair at Notre Dame (Belmont).
She is at work on a book exploring the relationship between paintings and poems, Pictures Speak, Poems See. Her creative nonfiction work, entitled MIND SHADOWS: A Child Recalls War, has been an emotional challenge. Her translations of contemporary poems from German-to-English and English-to-German, entitled The Root Hunger for Angels, bring her full circle back to her mother tongue. Other projects include a book on the brain, time, and creativity.
Her newest adventure has been the founding a publishing house, Natural Way Publishing, whose aim is to publish books that deserve to see the light of day. Her first was Tobias Grether's HOMOCHRONOS: The Emergence of Time-Consciousness (2011). Next is Janet Post, Cotton Rock (October, 2011), then two children's books by author Robin Nelson, The Quietest Bird and Not Enough Puffins (2012). Stay tuned for six more in 2012. Her website is www.writingthenaturalway.com where you can reach her.
Bridging the humanities and the sciences, Rico speaks widely on the application of brain research to writing, to learning, and to creative process--most recently on the roles of improvisation, play, and time-awareness in creative engagement. She developed Clustering, a tool to tap into the brain's self-organizing process, which has found its way into textbooks on writing and journaling, and into computer software used in schools everywhere.
Honored as San Jose State University's President's Scholar in 1986, she was selected Teacher/ Scholar in 1993. In 1992 she held an Endowed Chair at Notre Dame (Belmont).
She is at work on a book exploring the relationship between paintings and poems, Pictures Speak, Poems See. Her creative nonfiction work, entitled MIND SHADOWS: A Child Recalls War, has been an emotional challenge. Her translations of contemporary poems from German-to-English and English-to-German, entitled The Root Hunger for Angels, bring her full circle back to her mother tongue. Other projects include a book on the brain, time, and creativity.
Her newest adventure has been the founding a publishing house, Natural Way Publishing, whose aim is to publish books that deserve to see the light of day. Her first was Tobias Grether's HOMOCHRONOS: The Emergence of Time-Consciousness (2011). Next is Janet Post, Cotton Rock (October, 2011), then two children's books by author Robin Nelson, The Quietest Bird and Not Enough Puffins (2012). Stay tuned for six more in 2012. Her website is www.writingthenaturalway.com where you can reach her.
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Using Your Right To Write What's Wrong,
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This review is from: Pain and Possibility (Mass Market Paperback)
"When I kept silent, my body wasted away through mygroaaning all day long." Psalm 32:3In a few simple words, thePsalmist recounts the experience of his soul's captivity; not behind bars made of steel, but of silence. Silence of his own "making." That the human being enjoys the ability to express itself implies that it should in fact express itself. And as in the case of King David, the act of locking away our grief can do more than simply confine its expression, for to confine is often to consume. In Pain and Possibility, Dr. Gabriele Rico offers a way out for our words; a way to lead them up out of dark emotional chambers and set them breathing in the sun. Using the clustering process first introduced in her outstanding best-seller Writing the Natural Way, Dr. Rico leads the reader not away from, but directly into the storm. Into chaos. Into the downward spiral. Into the free association of ideas and images that form the clustering model. It is this model that helps us give shape to our feelings through the use of language. The reader's guide on this journey is no novice. While encouraging the reader to enter the emotional turbulence of pain, Dr. Rico does not simply stand outside it shouting advice, but herself confronts a childhood trauma created by the sudden loss of her mother. Through a series of deliberate creative exercises - in which pain is named, "framed," and released - she takes her readers down the spiral of pain in order to lead them up again. For expressive beings, words are the key. Once identified, named and explored, our pain can be owned. Once owned, it is ours to let go; this book tells us how. No special equipment or skill is required. Only a willingness to use what is already ours: an ability to express ourselves, and a desire to be free.
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