The Healing Muse

The Bruised Muse. Author Fran Dorf is always entertaining and insightful, whether ranting on the current state of our world or discussing writing as a tool for healing,www.bruisedmuse.com

Marti Hand is an artist who works in healthcare. On her blog http://www.martihand.wordpress.com she perceptively discusses issues of art in healthcare. Her art is lovely and she is an avid knitter, as well.

Laurie Edwards writes about living with chronic illness, but she also writes persuasively about the importance of the humanities in medicine. Check her out at http://achronicdose.blogspot.com

2008 Wellness and Writing Connections Conference, an annual gathering of people exploring issues related to wellness and writing. http://www.wellnessandwritingconnections.com/

East Georgia Cancer Coalition, http://www.eastgeorgiacancer.org

The Healing Muse addresses issues of medicine through poetry, fiction and essays, http://www.upstate.edu/bioethics/

Narrative Matters, http://narrativematters.com/info.html

Literature and Medicine. For more than a quarter of a century, Literature and Medicine has been exploring . Issues of illness, health, medical practice, trauma, and the body are examined through literary and cultural texts.http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/

Bellevue Literary Review. First rate fiction, poetry and essay explore issues of illness, http://blreview.org/

The Society for Arts in Healthcare is at the forefront for healing and the arts. Wonderful data base of research. http://thesah.org/template/index.cfm

Ars Medica, a literary journal dedicated to the interface between Arts and Medicine: http://ars-medica.ca/

Cell 2 Soul, http://www.cell2soul.org/index.php

Narrative Therapy Institute. If you are interested in Narrative Therapy, check out this website. The art work is great too! www.narrativetherapyinstitute.com

Diana Raab, memorist and poet, has good ideas for journaling. dianaraab.wordpress.com

The Journal of Poetry Therapy. Essays about the use of poetry therapy, as well as poetry! www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08893675.asp

SurLaLune Fairy Tale Site: Texts and commentary: a wonderful resource for working with archetypal stories, www.SurLaLunefairytales.com

A Healing Library, an eclectic and annotated catalog of stories, poems, novels, books, essays, and tales, all with the potential to catalyze and contribute to healing. www.oneyearofwritingandhealing.com/a_healing_library

Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, an online journal has observations from healthcare professionals and patients, poetry, fiction and essays. www.yjhm.yale.edu

Susan Borkin, therapist and writer, has some good ideas on her site for overcoming writers' block, among other things. Check her out at susanborkin.com

An oncology site that promotes the use of the arts to help people express, and thereby better manage pain and feelings, is Mesothelioma, http://www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com