Deena Metzger
is interviewed by host Kathleen Adams
on the Journaling for a Better Life show
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Deena Metzger is a novelist,
poet, essayist, storyteller, ritual practitioner and healer. Story is
her Medicine. She is an explorer of the deeper meaning and manifestations
of story and her focus has been on the healing possibilities of the
stories we live. Read more.
She works with individuals suffering physical, emotional
and spiritual illness and teaches and lectures on the ways of writing
and creativity nationally and internationally and has developed a training
program for the 21st Century in the creative, political,
spiritual and ethical aspects of healing.
She is known for her exuberant
(Warrior) poster that illustrates the triumph over breast cancer. She
and her husband, the writer Michael Ortiz Hill, have brought the tradition
of Daré to North America for the sake of restoring beauty and bringing
healing to individuals, community and the natural world. Deena is the
author of many works.
Her latest book is Ruin and Beauty: New and
Selected Poems. Her other books of poetry include Looking for
the Faces of God and A Sabbath Among the Ruins.
Other works include From Grief Into Vision: A
Council, Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice
of Healing, Tree: Essays and Pieces; Writing for Your Life: A
Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds;
and the novels, Doors: A fiction for jazz horn and
The Other Hand..
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