Tag: #healing

• NaPoWriMo Day 18 – Gas, Food, Longing

  

  “And now for our (optional) daily prompt! This one comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s  table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the…

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2021

  Poetry

  #Day18, #GloPoWriMo2021, #healing, #hurting, #imagery, #memory, #metaphorpoem, #NaPoWriMo2021, #nostalgia, #painofloss, #poem

• NaPoWriMo Day 3 : Moment of truth

  

  Today’s prompt is to make a “Personal Universal Deck,” and then to write a poem using it. The idea of the “Personal Universal Deck” originated with the poet and playwright Michael McClure, who gave the project of creating such decks to his students in a 1976 lecture at Naropa University. Basically, you will need 50…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2021

  Experiences, Poetry

  #bohobeautiful, #day3, #feelgood, #healing, #life, #love, #meditation, #NaPoWriMo2021, #nature, #personaldeck, #poem, #positivity, #selftalk, #yoga

• Published on Medium: Six things to do if you want to help someone who’s grieving- I lost three people in less than three months

  

  Yesterday I wrote my first official post on Medium. To read the post you can click on https://six-things-to-do-if-you-want-to-help-someone-whos-grieving-i-lost-three-people-in-less-than If it resonates with you or you like my writing, please root for me by clicking on the ‘clap’ icon in Medium. If you want to be notified of my future posts, click the ‘Follow’ button. I’m…

  Smitha V

  March 28, 2021

  Experiences

  #acknowledgement, #blogaweek, #blogging, #dealingwithloss, #dealingwithpain, #death, #grief, #healing, #life, #lifelessons, #loneliness, #people

• Closure : From Madurai to Kodaikanal

  

  We hired a taxi to travel to Kodaikanal. The reviews said the distance of 116 kms could be covered in 3 hours, the roads to the hills were safe and that there was just one hairpin turn on the mountain roads (being an extremely wary traveler and with no penchant for heights or mountain roads,…

  Smitha V

  January 27, 2021

  Experiences, Travel

  #beautifulindia, #behappy, #goingaway, #healing, #Holidays, #kodaikanal, #life, #live, #mountains, #nature, #takeabreak, #traveldiaries, #travellingwithkids, #travelogue

• My journey to healing: going away from the familiar

  

  This year we did not celebrate Christmas because of all the losses in the family. On 26th December it was one month since dad passed away and I still felt extremely low. I did art, reading, writing and while it did help me feel better, it was short-term. I had no idea what to do…

  Smitha V

  January 23, 2021

  Experiences, Travel

  #beautifulindia, #dealing with loss, #familyholiday, #goingaway, #healing, #holiday, #India, #madurai, #meenakshitemple, #SouthIndia, #spiritualjourney, #travelogue, Experiences