WRITE THE DAMN BOOK: FROM PROCRASTINATION TO PUBLICATION

• View the Writer’s Path as The Hero/Heroine’s Journey
• Heal Before You Reveal: The Importance of Tending to Wounds Before Exposing Them
• Poetry as Shamanic Process

Mary Reynolds Thompson’s Bio: Mary Reynolds Thompson is an award-winning author, writing coach, and certified poetry and journal facilitator dedicated to the idea that words have the power to change the world. Founder of Write the Damn Book, she views the path to authorship as a heroic journey and guides people from procrastination to publication, and from playing small to having the impact they yearn for. She is author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul: How Earth’s Landscapes Restore Us to Wholeness (a 2015 Nautilus Book award-winner) and Embrace Your Inner Wild: 52 Reflections for an Eco-Centric World (Finalist, Best Nature Book 2011). Mary is also core faculty for the Therapeutic Writing Institute, an Instructor for the eco-feminist organization TreeSisters, and founder of Live Your Wild Soul Story. www.writethedamnbook.com and www.maryreynoldsthompson.com