Book cover image, “Widow maker” by Darrin Hartman My book will come out in hardcover, softcover and in electronic format by early 2021! It will be published with Routledge Writing the self in bereavement: a story of love, spousal loss, and resilience By Reinekke Lengelle Writing the self in bereavement is balm for readers experiencing …
In grief there were slow afternoons and swampy mid-day mornings of discombobulation there was waking with a leaden, burning heart and wondering why nature invented whimpering I watched myself as griever, as walker, as the woman who put brie on crackers and re-boiled water in the kettle five times If there is a “she” …
The “Widow Project” manuscript was the working title for the book described below that will be published with Routledge in 2021. Writing the Self in Bereavement: A story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience by Reinekke Lengelle BOOK SUMMARY To lose loved ones is our common fate. Yet death is something we frequently (and perhaps wisely) …
Today Frans has been gone 10 months. This past weekend, as I was cleaning the house, this poem started to form in my mind. Feel free to use it with groups or share it with others who are bereaved. You can send them the link or copy and paste. Simple questions by Reinekke Lengelle First …
I’m an invited keynote speaker at this conference in Birmingham in October 2019. Care to join me there if you live or work in the area? INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – CAREER DEVELOPMENT: IDENTITY, INNOVATION AND IMPACT – CENTRAL BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 10th OCTOBER 2019
Writing the self in bereavement At the beginning of December 2019, two weeks after Frans’s death, I started writing what I called The Widow Project. This project helped me to explore how writing for healing in grief and bereavement could be done in practical terms. This work became a full-length book which is now published with …
In this CERIC webinar I introduce Career Writing
Poems to Frans and about death, June & July 2019 Cloudscapes Everything is more beautiful and painful now and that’s the deal no one escapes you showed me light and shadow enacted and reflected Enriched by love’s long apprenticeship I thought today about how you dove towards death I had never seen someone do it …
“Poets might get a bad rap when it comes to career success, but their way of thinking and playing is exactly the kind of creativity that is useful for developing a career story that can set someone on a useful course.” In this free webinar, Reinekke Lengelle will introduce you to Career Writing, co-developed with …
The widow project