As soon as I notice feeling unmoored, I try to pull myself back into my body, like returning home. ~Valerie Kaur

From the Archive |The Visceral Self: Writing in the Dark’s Next 12-Week Seasonal Intensive for Embodied Writing Starts April 3. It Is Going To Be Beautiful.

Georgia O’Keeffe, by Alfred Stieglitz (public domain)

It’s not always easy to write through body rather than simply about it (or not at all). I talk about that in this post: Let Everything Happen to You. But when we do write through our bodies, the prose wakes up—its pulse quickens. It comes alive.

My own body was long a stranger to me. But when I learne…