Art of Spiritual Writing

with her husband and co-author, Richard, is fascinated by the individual journeys we all undertake. For the last ten years Eirene and Richard have developed and run many courses on mapping our spiritual journeys, on creative journalling and other relevant writing techniques to better understand these explorations. They also lead popular three-day writing retreats. Experienced published authors, they have both undertaken Masters in Creative Writing, have run a large writers’ group and are spiritual accompaniers. In writing this book, they bring together all of this expertise and experience to help others to better understand and to write about their own life stories.

'There’s a lovely phrase at the start of the Anglo-Saxon epic when Beowulf the hero says he is going to ‘unlock his word-hoard’, meaning the treasury of language that will express the essence of his story. You are on a journey of your own, no less epic, to discover and explore the treasure within you. This book offers a delightfully accessible, practical and comprehensive guide to making this journey through writing, beginning with the single step of picking up a pen or opening a laptop. It presents a whole range of different approaches – an invaluable set of keys to help you unlock your own ‘word-hoard’ and let your soul tell her story.'