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E148 - Your Busy Brain Needs Poetry (and Time to Journal) Guest, Bri McLaughlin
Poetry is having a moment. And your busy brain needs it! ✍️
This week on Create Today, Beth sits down with Bri McLaughlin, LCSW, a bilingual therapist, and poetry therapist in training at Connections Health in Evanston, Illinois.
Together Beth and Bri explore how a poem and a few minutes minutes with a journal can calm anxious thoughts, quiet your inner critic, and finally give words to feelings you couldn't name.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• What poetry therapy actually is (bibliotherapy, ritual, metaphor, and group sharing)
• Why you need zero writing experience to benefit
• Why…
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