A workshop designed to cultivate creativity and mindfulness in the process of recovery from grief, trauma, or addiction. We use writing exercises to uncover, discover, and discard old wounds as well as to create positive attitudes, present awareness, and future goals. We also play with fiction and poetry, and use visual arts as inspiration. Group leader has her masters in creative writing.

Miscarriage Recovery Group.  Emotional recovery from a miscarriage can be surprising, deeply felt, and perhaps different from one's partners.  One can swing from feeling numb, to wanting to die themselves, to despair, to anger and then all the way around again.  It is a grief that beckons unaware, for example if someone (a co-worker perhaps) doesn't know your news and hasn't seen you since you were pregnant and may come up to you and ask how the baby is. Seeing pregnant women can bring up sadnes …