by Carolyn | May 24, 2014 | Ms. Persephone, Searching for Persephone
I’m obsessed with words. Writing is a practice of revealing what’s at the core. When I was doing the final edit to send my novel manuscript (“Searching for Persephone”) to the literary agent, the edit that I call the Crisp and Clean Edit (following...
by Carolyn | May 22, 2014 | The SoulFire
The world needs your voice. I believe each one of us has a story stirring within, one that only you can tell. You’ve probably thought about it all of your life. But sometimes we don’t know what we have, we don’t value the significance of our stories....
by Carolyn | May 22, 2014 | Love Heals, The Fallen and The Falling
Time doesn’t heal. Love heals. When you lose someone, the people around you often don’t know what to say. “Time heals,” they’ll say, well-intentioned. But grief is a stone in your heart. Many people live...
by Carolyn | May 13, 2014 | Living in Grace, The Fallen and The Falling
This is my foreword for “Yoga and Grief” by Gloria Drayer and Kathleen Doherty, forthcoming in summer 2014 from Balboa Press. Pre-order it at yogaandgrief.com. Grief comes in waves. When you have lost someone you love, the sadness is a powerful undertow in...