Friday, October 14, 2011

Autism disrupted: A Mother's Journey of Hope


AUTISM DISRUPTED: A MOTHER’S JOURNEY OF HOPE REVIEW/GIVEAWAY


My conversation with Jennie flowed easily, like old friends connecting after years apart.  Our stories are so similar.  Both of us have boys with SPD/ASD.  We both lost a parent after watching them battle illness for too long.  And we both use our writings as a way to “get it out.”  I told Jennie I called blogging “my free therapy.”
She agreed.  In fact, Jennie is a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator, and through her LifeSPEAKS poetry therapy program, she helps people work through their issues using expressive writing and poetry therapy.  “Everyone is a writer,” Jennie told me. “There’s a therapeutic value about writing.  You take the voice in your head, open it up and let it out.  That voice spoken starts the healing.”  Read More:

http://www.spdbloggernetwork.com/2011/08/29/autism-disrupted-a-mothers-journey-of-hope-reviewgiveaway/

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