by Stephanie Dale | Nov 20, 2023 | Slow Burn Exile, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
A word on the lost words … a deep sea diving acquaintance was lamenting the absence of interest friends showed in her underwater videos. Where she was looking for awe, in our digitised world we’ve seen it all before. “Great,” they say. “Awesome.” Yay. I...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 28, 2023 | Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
“When you are in a car, beautiful places are a moment. When you stop the car, they are a cluster of moments. When you walk, beautiful places are an eternity carved into the soul.” I remember exactly where I was when I wrote that. I was walking through a backroad...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Slow Burn Exile, Wellbeing-through-writing
In all the years I spent traveling through rural and remote areas on The Write Road, there was a refrain, a silent sub-text, a lingering whisper in our workshops and retreats: it’s not about you.Sometimes the whisper shapeshifted into a flood, most commonly in...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Wellbeing-through-writing
“I WRITE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK UNTIL I READ WHAT I SAY.” Flannery O’Connor There’s no two ways about it – writing is good for us. I’m not speaking now of the writing of a book or a blog or whatever writing project is calling to us, although for...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
The unknown is good for us. I know, right? It’s terrifying! At times, anyway. Walking and writing are leaders, both. Where one leads us through the landscapes of the physical world around us, the other leads us inwards, through the landscapes of our own interior. The...