A Reading List: Books that Heal and Inspire
Julie/Julia
by Julie Powell
A blogging success story
The Drama of the Gifted Child
by Alice Miller
Miller is a noted psychologist who began to heal herself when she started spontaneous painting. She says, “The spontaneous painting I began to do helped me not only to discover my personal story, but also to free myself from the intellectual constraints and concepts of my upbringing and my professional training . . . The more I learned to follow my impulses in a playful way with colors and forms, the weaker became my allegiance to conventnions of an aesthetic or any other nature.”
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
and Drawing on the Artist Within
by Betty Edwards.
These two books show you how to tap into the right/creative/intuitive side of the brain.
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland.
The first sentence is “This book should be a great help in the freeing of your thoughts and the genius that is in all of us.”
The Artist’s Way
by Julia Cameron
and Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and life
by Anne Lamott.
These two books urge people to write, write, write. Write often, write whatever comes to mind, write because it is healing, not
necessarily because you want to be published.
Dance of the Dissident Daughter
by Sue Monk Kidd.
This book is about tapping into the spiritual life.
How to Read a Poem and fall in Love with Poetry
by Edward Hirsch.
This book does exactly what the title says – it makes you fall in love with poetry. One of the reviews states, “The answer Hirsch gives to the question of How to Read a Poem is Ecstatically.”
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