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What every small child knows about dreams
I’m permitting myself a wayhay today because my agent has read my manuscript… and she says ‘Writing in the House of Dreams’ is a remarkable book! *happy dance* So while my dream book is winging its way...
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‘Your dreams were trying to kill you!’
My complete conversation with award-winning author Susan Price – she of the vengeful, spurned daemon – has gone live on her blog today. It’s got darkness and daemons, death and delight… all the stuff...
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‘Dreams, therapy and creativity are at the heart of my work’– in conversation...
I met Brenda Mallon at a conference of children’s authors and she kindly agreed to read the MS of my book, ‘Writing in the House of Dreams’ and to be interviewed for this blog. Brenda has over thirty...
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Authentically creative, by Carolyn Hughes
Carolyn Hughes is a writer with an interest in addiction and mental health issues. Her popular blog is The Hurt Healer and she has a lively and rapidly growing following on facebook and twitter I must...
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Can writing make life better?
My favourite chapter in Patricia Garfield’s ground-breaking book, ‘Creative Dreaming,’ is the one about the Senoi dreamers, whose dream-practice is designed ‘to make life better.’ In this tradition, if...
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Christmas archetypes – the dark intruder and the wondrous baby
I think of them as the nameless or faceless one – archetypal images which carry the pure power of a universal human experience. In pantheistic cultures they may be represented by gods and goddesses....
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The dark place, sad dreams, antidepressants and creativity…
Looking back over my blog stats for 2014, I discovered the three posts that got by far the most views were: Do antidepressants help or hinder creativity? The dark place where talent leads How can a...
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Can a dream really change your life?
When you tell acquaintances and strangers that you write and teach about dreams an interesting thing happens – the polite, interested look disappears, their faces light up and they straight away tell...
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We were discussing the Senoi method for tackling nightmares in last week’s session of Writing in the House of Dreams, when someone said, ‘We ought to be teaching this to children in schools!’ The Senoi...
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