Category Archives: Writing

Alone, Cold, Empty

Posted on March 20, 2024 by jenny

Written in writing group, Monday, March 18 Well.  What’s going on?  I’ve been scared a lot this morning.  Mostly I’m worried about not being able to deal with complex arrangements around my surgery.  Not having to do with the surgery … Continue reading →

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Blank, Empty, Dead

Posted on March 13, 2024 by jenny

Written in writing group on Monday, March 11: I’m scared.  Why should I be scared to write?  Nothing to say.  Talk about fear.  Well, it comes and goes.  I don’t find much else to think about.  Even had trouble writing … Continue reading →

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Turning Toward What’s Difficult

Posted on March 5, 2024 by jenny

I listened to a podcast of Tami Simon interviewing Tsultrim Allione, who started a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, and did a lot of work to bring the feminine into Buddhism.  She talked about facing and incorporating the bad, a practice … Continue reading →

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1996: Voices from the Dead

Posted on February 29, 2024 by jenny

From workshop with Deena Metzger at Rowe, February 1996 “When we think of the voices within us we must include the dead.” What dead are alive in you now? What are stories about your relationship with the dead?   … … Continue reading →

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1996: Two Versions of Father’s Death

Posted on February 28, 2024 by jenny

This is an exercise from the Workshop with Deena at Rowe in February 1996.  After identifying different selves Deena asks us to identify one story that two of your selves share:  I choose my father’s death, shared by the one … Continue reading →

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1996: How Can I Express the Totality of What’s in Me?

Posted on February 26, 2024 by jenny

This was written in a workshop with Deena Metzger in February 1996.  One of the exercises was to find the right form of the question “I am the woman who asks…”  Quite a bit of work to find the right … Continue reading →

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Questions

Posted on January 26, 2024 by jenny

This is a writing I did in a workshop with Deena Metzger, in February of 1996.  I love the assignment to “think of all the ways someone has tried to fix you, told you who you are or who you … Continue reading →

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“Conclude I can’t do it”

Posted on December 16, 2023 by jenny

From my journal for Friday, November 17 I’m feeling very empty — not in a good way — this is more lack of meaning and connection.  On my list for this week is get help for my cell phone from … Continue reading →

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Gratitude

Posted on December 15, 2023 by jenny

It wasn’t until December 8 that I checked Feedspot’s list of 80 best blogs on PTSD.  I was astounded to find that I was #15, and they said something wonderful about my blog. Jenny Deupree is a writer and artist … Continue reading →

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Effort to Connect with Baby: Scribble Drawings

Posted on December 12, 2023 by jenny

This was last edited on November 27. I didn’t post it because I got caught up in the work with scribble drawings. From my journal for Thursday, November 23 When I went out with Mocha it was still sunny, and … Continue reading →

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