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Christina Baldwin – Lifelines: How Personal Writing Can Save Your Life (UNABRIDGED) [2004/MP3/128]Chapter 1 – Why We Write?Chapter 2 – A Brief History of WritingChapter 3 – Harvesting Experience From Survival To GraceChapter 4 – Resistance And Writing As A RelationshipChapter 5 – Embodiment: Our Body, Nature’s BodyChapter 6 – Living In The Great Turn: Tension To The PageChapter 7 – Holding Course In A Chaotic WorldChapter 8 – Working With Guidance: Godalogues And PrayerChapter 9 – Surrender To Surprise: Dark Eye, Light Eye In The JourneyChapter 10 – Loving People On The PageChapter 11 – Living With Writing And Leaving A LegacyChapter 12 – The Story From Now On—————————————————————————————-The author’s thirty years of teaching personal journaling is evident in every minute of this comprehensive course. Partly therapeutic, partly artistic, the program is a guide to connecting with our unique experiences in life and reworking them into healthy emotional habits, better relationships, an integrated identity, and a solid life purpose. Writing organizes one’s life by releasing emotional energy, giving definition to scattered emotions, and charting a structure that can ground us as we react to pleasures, losses, and traumas. Useful advice on the practical aspects of writing is also in abundance, along with the author’s warmth and wisdom. The written guides and beautiful packaging make the program an exceptionally attractive personal resource. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Christina Baldwin has taught nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, and has contributed classic books in the emerging bodies of knowledge around personal writing, group process and spirituality. Her first work, One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans, 1977, rev. 1991) is a pioneering text that has remained in continuous print for a quarter of a century. Her marvelous sequel, Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest (Bantam 1990), extended the art of journal writing to spiritual practice. These titles have sold over 150,000 copies. In the early 1990’s, Christina began developing a group process methodology that led to the concepts presented in her ground-breaking work, Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998). This book has introduced thousands of people to a practical, hands-on structure for convening their meetings in circle and tapping collective wisdom. She has taken this work to the heart of mainstream culture in North America, Europe, and Africa. Writing is a “lifeline,” teaches Christina Baldwin. It can guide you through life’s transitions, reveal parts of your self yearning to be expressed, and even transmit the essence of who you are to inspire future generations. On Lifelines, the visionary who started the personal writing movement shows you how to save your life in all these ways and more—with only a pen and paper. When Baldwin’s first book, One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing, was published in 1977, the Library of Congress had to create a new category for her pioneering work. Since that time, through workshops, retreats, and seminars, Baldwin has worked with tens of thousands of people. For thirty years, she has been expanding her knowledge of the ways writing can organize your life, reveal the deeper meaning in life experiences, and map uncharted territories within you. Now, for the first time, you have access to Christina Baldwin’s personal philosophy and most powerful techniques, together in one comprehensive course: Lifelines: How to Save Your Life through Writing. Baldwin’s program shows how, step-by-step, you can tap into the power of personal writing for deep reflection—and to transform any experience you’re going through from chaos and fear into clarity and gratitude. You’ll begin with the “Survivor’s Tale,” to respond to significant life events and begin to face them safely. Writing your way to the “Story of Integration” takes you deeper, into understanding the full impact of the event, and how it fits into the larger story of your life. Finally, you embark on the “Story of Insight and Meaning,” where the divine purpose in all that you’ve lived through shines through.Baldwin guides you through these transitions with clear, personal explanations and practical exercises such as: “Flow Writing”—a jump-start for your creative process • Writing about yourself in the third person—a way to see your life from new perspectives • “The Light Eye and Dark Eye Exercise” to fully embrace both the negative and the positive • “Godalogues,” a powerful way to speak to—and receive guidance from—the divine, and much more.Whether you’ve been on the path of personal writing for decades, or are just setting out, Christina Baldwin will guide you to deeper levels of insight, healing, and personal power with Lifelines: How to Save Your Life through Writing. The set includes 13 Lifeline cards—one to help you visualize the Spiral of Raw Experience, and twelve containing the most inspiring exercises from each session.Christina Baldwin is an author, educator, speaker, and retreat leader. She is known for her groundbreaking work in the fields of personal writing, group process, and spirituality. With author, Ann Linnea, she is co-founder of PeerSpirit, Inc., offering a wide variety of consulting seminars, practica, and wilderness programs to individuals and groups. Baldwin is the author of One to One, Self-Understanding through Journal Writing; Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest; Calling the Circle; and The Seven Whispers.ENJOY THIS ONE!