Tag: Bibliotherapy

  • Cover Reveal: But Not Broken

    Cover Reveal: But Not Broken

    Work on the next PTSD anthology is continuing, and we are on track for a publication date of Valentine’s Day. I’d been hoping it would be possible, and now that we’re into February, I can say it for sure!  This means, of course, that we finally have a cover! I chose to design it with…

  • Call for Stories: But Not Broken

    Call for Stories: But Not Broken

    Just a reminder that there is a month remaining in the open submission period for stories in this anthology.  But Not Broken will be the second of the PTSD anthologies, taking up where Can’t Go Home Again  left off. You can read more details about the ideas behind the anthology here, in my first call…

  • Emotionally Intelligent Readers

    We learn from reading. We develop skills to process the world around us, and our interactions with it. We can see models of human interconnection and decide what we should do, in similar settings. “we turn to stories. Stories provide us with a broad template. They outline a pattern specific enough to be of tremendous…

  • Boys to Men: A Book List

    Boys to Men: A Book List

    This list was born out of the list I curated last week, it’s just taken me some time to get my act together and publish this one. This is, as all my lists are, a crowd-sourced list. I posted the question on social media, and took the recommended books to create the list. It’s far…

  • It’s all Literature

    It’s all Literature

    From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: “Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.” It is only within that broad generalization that we see…

  • Bibliotherapy

    Bibliotherapy

    Bibliotherapy Mirror-posted from According to Hoyt this morning. Cedar Sanderson A meta-analysis of the utilization of, and reading recommendations for effective bibliotherapy in a non-clinical setting. Bibliotherapy is the use of reading to improve mental health, reduce anxiety, and increase ‘mindfulness.’ Firstly, what is mindfulness? Psychology Today defines it neatly. “Mindfulness is a state of…