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Give Her A Voice: Vulnerable, Strong, Creative Women

Give Her A Voice: Interview with Debora Seidman

Visit Debora’s website: http://www.writingtheprayer.com

About Debora: Throughout Debora’s life, she has found that writing takes her to the deepest places of healing she knows. The challenges she’s faced personally, and the challenges in the world that break her heart, are the very things she’s brought to her plays, poetry and prose. As a teacher, she is passionate about creating a safe space where the most sacred stories of our lives come forth.

She has been leading writing workshops since 1996. After receiving her MFA in playwriting, she trained with Amherst Writers and Artists Institute and was certified to lead writing workshops for underserved populations.

For several years she led writing workshops for women survivors of trauma and abuse and was deeply inspired by the power of writing to change women’s lives. She also spent many years exploring the connections of body, mind and spirit. She was trained in acupressure and Reiki and studied a wide variety of mind body disciplines, including Feldenkrais, yoga, Continuum, among others.

When her life became deeply affected by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, she turned to writing and began to incorporate what she knew about the body and healing into a writing process called Writing the Body Home. This writing process has been one of the cornerstones for the healing in her own life, and it’s been her privilege to share what she’s learned with others.

Not all of us have chronic illnesses, and not all of us have survived major trauma, but we all live in a world that needs healing, and we all need to know how to care for our bodies in a world that’s become toxic on many levels.

She has won awards for her plays, poetry and prose. Her plays have been professionally produced in New York City as well as produced regionally in Western Massachusetts. Her poems and prose can be found in a variety of journals, including upstreet, Patchwork, Breath and Shadow, and others. She has also written and performed a one woman show. She’s twice been awarded grants to be a writer in residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She lives in New Mexico.

The Phantom Diaries: Interview with Melissa

Isabel Parlett, The Soundbite Shaman, helps spiritually-oriented business
leaders and creative visionaries to say what they do, when what they do is
deep, powerful, and hard to describe. You can get her free report, The Four
Ways Your Message May Be Falling Flat (And How to Fix It) at
http://www.soundbiteshaman.com.

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Note: This is in response to a client. We all as mothers need to forgive ourselves.

Forgiveness is a process. It can take time. Guilt does make you punish yourself, stop you from receiving the love you have for your daughter and she has for you. You are not perfect and everyone makes mistakes, that does not mean you need to be punished. Like I said, sometimes saying I’m sorry over and over is the mantra that helps us heal. To yourself and your daughter…however, at the same time you had a right to be afraid, and unfortunately it turned to rage….your daughter has been out of control for a long time, and as parents we are not always sages or prophets, just human…yes, life can beat us down, question our source and the love of spirit….
and that is the journey to find our way back….to find the truth… to forgive and take responsibility with conscious choice… the past can hurt us in the present.. and healing, forgiveness, letting go is a learning. It is hard to realize you screwed up parenting.. but that does not make you wrong, or bad. or less than….This will eventually heal.. that is the one thing you need to have faith in. Spirit is always present, but Spirit wants us to learn from our actions and feelings.  HE/SHE doesn’t interfere just helps us toward the truth.. guides us… to see the light….If you go inside and just feel what will relieve you?  What will help you let go of the guilt… what can you allow spirit to show you that will help feel more open to love that is still there? You have more to forgive and heal from your past with your X marriage…. but you also have a whole new life that is emerging and a whole new relationship that you and your daughter are growing…?

The Three Emotions: Part 2

The Three Emotions: Part 1