THE POETRY HEALING COURSE: Writing from Your Heart and Soul

In this E-course You Will

A Word from Course Creator & Facilitator Susan Frybort

As early as I can remember, I have been on a poetry-writing healing journey. As a child, I was deeply drawn to poetry and found myself captivated by rhythm, rhyme and sequence. As a young teen, I wrote as a means of continual connection and recognition. As an adult trauma survivor, I turned to poetry writing as a way of working through my multi-layered material and cleaning out past wounds. Through my life, I have learned that poetry more than bears witness as it logs events in passing.

Your poetry was born the moment you started talking to yourself and reasoning internally through pure and honest reflection. All of nature and the vast, open Universe have been conversing with you throughout your lifetime, I believe, and reflecting back the truth of your ever-unfolding, always transforming Being.  What you have survived becomes part of your sterling wisdom and has been forming and shaping who you are, and what you feel and sense become the words. Throughout life, your body has stored the emotional material in want of expression. Your poetry does exist inside you and is so powerful. It has the potency to transform. It has the ability to awaken you to new and authentic feelings. Poetry can become your guide and shining star, with you forever as companion.

Poetry can provide many elements of catharsis for us from our earnest reading and writing—and through it, we share and bare our most honest questions, reflections, stories, and experiences. Sudden moments, which thrusts us into the deepest part of our soul, exposing other parts we never even knew we held in silence. Like falling in love when it was least expected, or opening our heart and making room for another when it wasn’t convenient. Real moments. Like landing a job you’d been desperately praying for. Agonizing moments. Like hiding your feelings of guilt or regret, or betraying someone who trusted you. Moments of truth. Like saving another from danger, raising a child with little support—then watching that same child grow up to be loving and independent.  Or being thrown into the fire and learning who you really are in the heart of it all. It’s all there waiting to be expressed in words that evoke specific feelings only you can provide.

Yes, we are extraordinary worldly travelers who have encountered life-altering experiences and have visited profound places. We each have a unique tale which Poetry longs to accurately tell. We carry many poems and an astonishing story to weave into the ongoing cloth of The Human Existence. In this course, you can take your time and travel at your own pace. No one is there to rush you through your process or stifle your authentic feelings. No one is hovering above to shame your pain nor guilt you out of the reality of your honest feelings. No, not this time. This time is fully yours. Yours to build a bridge to all that’s been quietly aching to be crafted into prose or poem. Please join me on this exciting healing journey!