Expressive Therapeutic Writing

Krystal Leah Demaine, Ph.D., MT-BC, REAT, CTRS-C, RYT, music therapist, expressive arts therapist and professor of Expressive Therapies at Endicott College practices HEARTful healing note by note through song, story, poetry and creative curiosity. Tamar Reva Einstein, Ph.D., REAT, expressive arts therapist, poet/artist, and teacher, crosses cultural borders in Jerusalem with the arts as her mother tongue; threading writing and arts like her threaded beads and amulets.

1.Intermodal Arts and Writing: How One Art Fertilizes the Other 2.Cultivating Practice in Writing with Other Art Forms 3. Writing as Praising Common Things: Odes, Prayers, Hymns, Amulets, and Rituals 4. Writing Details: The Spine of Soulful Writing 5. Writing and Metaphor: Stepping Away to Get Closer 6. The Children’s Department: Childhood, Children’s Literature, and Striving to Write More Like Children 7.A Body of Writing: Writing From, On, and With the Body 8. Writing on the Inside and the Outside: Boxes, Masks, and Other Containers 9. Letters, Notes, and Handwriting 10. Caring and Restoring: Righting Ourselves Through Writing 11. All Good Things Must Come to an End: Writing, Harvesting, and Gleaning 12. Leftovers: Gleaning from the Scribbles in the Margins After-words: A Thank You Note to the Book Index