Sharon Pearce-McLeay MA CJF

July 12, 2016 “It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become [real]. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who d

February 19, 2018 " The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." ...

April 6, 2017 How neuro-science & journal writing techniques can alter our brains to beat the negative tide... Ever feel like you’re...

October 20, 2016 Hello journaling/memoir ones. I have landed in Niagara on the Lake, sort of unpacked (Cat in boxes, again) and arranged...

May 21, 2016--With Christina Baldwin, author and pioneer of circle practice. Christina Baldwin, author and pioneer of circle practice is...

June 28, 2015 How the internet is making us stupid and journaling can help I am waiting for a movie to begin when I hear two women...

February 21, 2016 When Elvis Presley crooned these forlorn words back in 1960 only 25 per cent of us[1] admitted to feeling occasionally...

March 11, 2015 Journal writing can help cancer patients cope with their illness. So says a New York Times.com article by Tara Parker-Pope...

March 26, 2015 Because our writing…is a concrete object, it becomes a memorial and a testimony to the resolution of the mourning process…[it] permits us to pass from numbness to feeling, from denial to acceptance, from conflict and chaos to order and resolution, from rage and loss to profound growth, from grief to joy[1]." (Louise DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing) I have always kept a journal, but when my Mom passed away a year ago I couldn’t write. Quite fr

March 25, 2020--In the New York Times [1] retired NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly, offered advice on how to handle isolation in this time of...

April 16, 2020-- The Oxford online dictionary was the first to recognize the images we take of ourselves—most often at arms length with...