The Therapeutic Poet in conversation with Megan Febuary on writing to process and heal trauma

In this episode we began with my poem ‘An iron bar sits on her chest.’

 I spoke with Megan Febuary, founder of For Women who Roar and Your Book Year.  

Megan recalls how writing a poem to reconcile her silence of rage and grief created a movement to help other women tell their stories. We spoke of the importance of the healing process through writing, rather than focussing on the finished piece; how we can let our writing write us and shedding our defences to get to the truth, which is a complicated disorganised process.

We touched on how the secret to transition is acceptance of what is and not abandoning our voice and our story. 

We spoke about why sharing our story is so healing; but how we may have to break through our own shame to get there, but the antidote to that is our curiosity.

Show notes:

We refer to a few books in this episode:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

Bird by Bird by Anne Lammot

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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