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You’re Not Alone: Using Poetry to Heal During Mental …

WEBMay 16, 2022. Poetry is a uniquely powerful art form. Poets have the ability to shape culture, support social movements, and collectively heal society. On a micro level, poems can help you heal, too. Millions of …

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12 Poems About Mental Health to Let You Know You’re Not Alone

WEB“I photographed through any material I could find while walking around the city, replacing feelings of isolation and suffocation with anxiety in real-time,” she writes. …

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5 Ways Poetry Can Improve Your Health

WEBPoetry can promote quality sleep. Reading before bed has been found to reduce stress at high rates, relaxing levels of stress even more than other forms of self …

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Poems for Those Living With Chronic Illness

WEBAs with mental health, there is a very real stigma surrounding chronic illness which can cause people to feel isolated and overlooked as they suffer in silence. When I …

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The Role of Poetry in Mental Health Awareness

WEBThe accessibility of poetry allows us to better address stereotypes and stigma and understand the dangers of putting any one type of mental illness into a box. Poetry …

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How Poetry Can Teach Us About Mental Health

WEBPoetry and mental health go hand-in-hand for so many of us because poetry gives our hearts a place to express our experiences in a healing way. Poems offer us a …

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How to Write Poetry About Mental Health

WEBWrite from an honest, self-reflective place. Reflecting on both your past and present mental health struggles can help you write poetry through a true, unfiltered …

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3 Incredible Female Poets who are also Mental Health Advocates

WEB1. Aija Mayrock. Aija Mayrock is an author, poet, and spoken word performer who creates beautiful and meaningful art that brings to light the topics of bullying and …

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Poets for a Cause Spotlight: Caroline White and the Importance of

WEBCaroline White, this month’s featured poet, is a mental health advocate who seeks to help people find their own path to healing. White writes about the special kind …

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Poets to remind you to take care of yourself in mind, body, and spirit

WEBThe World Health Organization is celebrating Self-Care Month throughout July, ramping up to self-care day on the 24th. WHO will be sharing tips, facts, and new …

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3 Poems for World Mental Health Day

WEBTrigger warning: This article discusses suicide, depression, and OCD. Mental health is one of the most important issues facing our world today, and the global …

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6 Poems to Help You Take Action on World Mental Health Day

WEBThis year, World Mental Health Day focuses on suicide prevention, as the World Health Organization (WHO) invites us to take 40 seconds of action to let those …

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Imran Khan opens up about mental health, career, and his writing

WEBImran Khan opens up about mental health, career, and his writing process. By Thea Voutiritsas. January 16, 2020. Poet, essayist, and Amnesty International …

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5 Stigma-Breaking Poems for Social Anxiety

WEBWho allow me to be silly and unkempt,” writes Cook. 3. “Clatter” by Neil Hilborn. Spoken word poet Neil Hilborn went viral in 2013 for his poem “OCD.”. Since then, the …

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Poets for a Cause: K.Y. Robinson

WEBIn an earlier post, I wrote about modern poets who are making a difference in their communities by speaking out about issues such as mental health, illness, grief, …

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Four Vulnerable Poets Writing About Addiction and Recovery

WEBFour out of the six American writers awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature struggled with alcoholism: William Faulkner, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, and …

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14 Pick-Me-Up Poems to Boost Your Mood

WEBFor those in pain. so will the happiness. 3. For those trapped by fear. Here is the fear, welcoming itself into your thoughts. to fall in love with them. but it was never …

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Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line Finds New Way to Bring Poetry to …

WEBPoetry has long made its impact in print, online, and at local readings and events. Now, the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line, a recent project from Philadelphia …

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7 Poems for World Suicide Prevention Day

WEBP. Bodi Poetry writes beautiful poems that shed light on mental illness. They may be words that resonate with you or that you can send to a loved one to read. Either way, these …

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3 Healing Poems For Your Heart Chakra

WEBi carry your heart with me (i carry it in. my heart)i am never without it (anywhere. i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done. by only me is your doing,my …

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3 Poems About Health Care Workers in the Time of Coronavirus

WEBHealth care workers are putting their lives at risk in this first wave of the coronavirus. They have to protect themselves against the virus using N95 surgical masks, scrubs, gloves, …

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