Gillie Bolton

Write Yourself: Creative Writing and Personal Development

Gillie Bolton
Creative Writing and Personal Development
Foreword by Nicholas F.Mazza, Ph.D
June 2011 288pp ISBN: 9781849051101 pb £18.99

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'Persuading your inner person to tell you your true name is the most intricate and fateful of all quests-but even to venture a little way on it can make your life richly creative. Gillie Bolton's Write Yourself is an essential field guide to all of the territory.'

- Les Murray, Poet

'Gillie Bolton's latest book is filled with wonderful and moving insights that speak to the value of creative writing. It is inspiring, challenging and also practical. All those who read it can learn from it how to help themselves and others - trust the method and give it a try!'

- Amanda Howe, FRCGP, Professor of Primary Care at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

'Write Yourself is a powerful handbook that is the culmination of Gillie Bolton's sustained scholarship and wisdom focusing on therapeutic creative writing for reflective self- insight. Her ideas and practical knowledge provide uplifting support for writing group facilitators, as well as individuals, in exploring practical approaches to expressive writing. This work is an important and lasting contribution to the field.'
- John D.Engel, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices. Gillie Bolton explains how and why writing is such an illuminative, healing and cathartic process, and provides many practical exercises that encourage the exploration of emotions, memories and experiences.