kel's creative writing
inspired by yoga, acupuncture, nature, life

Since I was a child, ~5 years old or so, I wrote to express my feelings and to "get things off my chest" or to express messy emotions to process them and let them go. Around age ten I started keeping a diary that I kept for well over a a decade, probably closer to 20 years. Writing during my high school advanced English class honed my craft as I wrote a 65-page literary analysis of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (on an electronic typewriter), along with several drafts of numerous essays and poems that year. I had been a writer my entire life, but I became a writer in this class.

Writing is meditative and calming for me. It allows me the expansion and space to be with myself in order to visualize and describe my thoughts, impressions, perceptions, and feelings in a way that feels like they truly represented me and my experiences.

The writings below include a selection completed during a decade or more of deep healing and personal growth in my 30's. I hope they paint an experiential picture for you or take you on a journey somewhere useful or interesting ~ perhaps showing how writing can be part of the healing process. I hope this selection inspires curiosity about tapping into your own creative potential and what kinds of tools (including acupuncture) might facilitate this process for you. Perhaps in this excavation and exploration process, you might also embark on a healing journey that will help others to do the same. Let us create healing ripples...