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Writing for Bliss is most fundamentally about reflection, truth, and freedom. With techniques and prompts for both the seasoned and novice writer, it will lead you to tap into your creativity through storytelling and poetry, examine how life-changing experiences can inspire writing, pursue self-examination and self-discovery through the written word, and, understand how published writers have been transformed by writing. ******"Writing for Bliss is about the profound ways in which we may be transformed in and through the act of writing. I am grateful to Diana Raab for sharing it, and I trust that you will feel the same as you read on. May you savor the journey." --from the foreword by MARK FREEMAN, PhDDIANA RAAB, MFA, PhD, is an award-winning poet, memoirist, speaker, educator, and survivor. She's the author of nine books and more than one thousand articles and poems. She lives in Southern California. Learn more at DianaRaab.comFrom Loving Healing Press LHPress.com
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Diana Raab, MFA, PhD is an award-winning memoirist, poet, blogger, workshop leader, and speaker. Her passion is writing for healing and transformation. She's the author of eight books and over 500 articles and poems, and editor of two anthologies, WRITERS ON THE EDGE: 22 WRITERS SPEAK ABOUT ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCY and WRITERS AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS. Raab's two memoirs are REGINA'S CLOSET: FINDING MY GRANDMOTHER'S SECRET JOURNAL and HEALING WITH WORDS: A WRITER'S CANCER JOURNEY. Her fourth and most recent poetry collection is called LUST. Her two most recent books are: WRITING FOR BLISS: A 7-STEP PLAN FOR TELLING YOUR STORY AND TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE (Loving Healing Press, Sept 2017) , and WRITING FOR BLISS: A COMPANION JOURNAL (Jan 2019) .Raab has been writing since the age of 10, when her mother gave her a Khalil Gibran journal to help her cope with her grandmother suicide. Since then, she has been using writing as a way of healing and transformation and inspiring others to do the same. She is the mother of 3 adult children, and grandmother of 4 grandchildren. She lives in Southern California. She blogs for for Psychology Today, PsychCentral, Thrive Global, Wisdom Daily and many others. Her website is dianaraab.com.
