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  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781590307427
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $49.99
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Being True To Life



This book offers a fresh and inspiring approach to personal growth, one that taps into our inherent creativity and the versatility of poetry. In Being True to Life psychotherapist David Richo explains how writing and reading poetry can be a rich path of self-exploration and emotional healing for anyone, no matter one’s poetic abilities.

Richo offers a range of practical exercises for exploring how poetry can help us to become more aware, to heal, and to grow emotionally and spiritually. Exercises include free writing; composing autobiographical poems; writing a poem to your fears; and composing poems based on childhood memories, significant experiences, and dreams. Richo also offers guidance on how to read poetry in a way that can be personally transformative.

  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781590307427
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

David Richo

DAVID RICHO, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer who draws on Jungian, Buddhist, and poetic perspectives in his work. He leads popular workshops at the Esalen Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. He is the author of HOW TO BE AN ADULT, HOW TO BE AN ADULT IN RELATIONSHIPS, and SHADOW DANCE: LIBERATING THE POWER AND CREATIVITY OF YOUR DARK SIDE. He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.

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