Bookish Musings

Welcome to the newest post in Writing While Healing, a series where I speak with indie authors who’ve found light through writing during their darkest times. Today, I’m honored to feature  Rose Rita James, an indie author . You can learn more about Rose Rita James here .                                                                                Please introduce yourself! Rose Rita James, LCSW Please tell us a little about yourself and the kind of stories you write. I write literary nonfiction at the intersection of the body, psychology, spirituality, and the strange, beautiful work of being human. My first book, Tears Are Holy Water: Somatic Wisdom & Rituals for Feeling and Aliveness, weaves nervous system science, somatic psychology, ritual, personal refl...

  Welcome to the newest post in Writing While Healing, a series where I speak with indie authors who’ve found light through writing during their darkest times. Today, I’m honored to feature  Nicole Goodwin, an indie author . You can learn more about  Nicole   here .                                                Please introduce yourself! Nicole Goodwin/GOODW.Y.N. is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Writer living and working in NYC. Please tell us a little about yourself and the kind of stories you write. I write all types of work including fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Please share a bit about your mental health journey, as much as you are comfortable with :) Much of my mental health journey consists of inpatient hospital care, juggling through a myriad of medications, and battling the family court system for custody of my daughter. Tha...

Welcome to the newest post in Writing While Healing, a series where I speak with indie authors who’ve found light through writing during their darkest times. Today, I’m honored to feature  Stephanie Dawson , an indie author . You can learn more about Stephanie Dawson here .                                                Please introduce yourself! I'm a retired nurse, a mom, a grandmother, death doula, grief coach, writer, among other things. I grew up in a grieving family, my sister Lisa died when I was 4, in 1972. I became disabled in 2010 and was forced to retire. I later became a death doula, then my son died in 2020 and my mom in 2021. I then studied to become a grief coach. Please tell us a little about yourself and the kind of stories you write. I've been writing for several years- newspaper articles, short stories, essays, poems, and a children's book I'm...