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Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World

Laura Babb·
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·February 5, 2025·7 min read
In Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World, I reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self discovering the benefits of holistic therapies and shamanic healing.
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You Need to Know How to Escape the Perils of Capitalist Mental Entrapment 

Laura Babb·
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·August 4, 2024·7 min read
I’ll take you back through my journey and then reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self.
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Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: A Poem of Healing

Anastasia Waid·
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·March 20, 2023·4 min read
My poem “Week After” explores my experience with assault, rape, and emotional abuse in a year and a half long relationship with an older man.
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Horse, Therapy: Trauma and Healing in Animals and Humans

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
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·January 24, 2023·11 min read
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
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A Poem & Dance for Pina Bausch: “Love Sweet Love”

Jerrice J. Baptiste·
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·January 5, 2023·3 min read
"I danced each morning with Pina Bausch. I became her pupil lifting my leg up in the air like a flamingo except feeling more awake than I’ve ever been."
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Celestial Bodies: Writing Fiction about Love, Trauma, and Healing

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·September 2, 2022·8 min read
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
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Autoethnographic Poetry, Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: “Damned”

Emily Kiessling·
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·July 12, 2022·3 min read
"Damned," the first publication in The AutoEthnographer's Bodily Autonomy issue, is the product of my confused reflection and internal conversations with the culture that raised me."
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Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Teahl Light·
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·January 20, 2022·11 min read
“My ability to be creatively vulnerable with my mental illness as well as the experiences which contributed to it will serve as a method of self-healing.”
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Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

Amanda Sieradzki·
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·October 17, 2021·9 min read
"I called out the demons one by one. I named them. I gave them precise blocking and ultimately, I controlled where they stood, breathed, and bourréed. I gave them an entrance, and a stage, and then I sent them away."
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“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Milton Carp·
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·September 21, 2021·13 min read
"My poems are not entirely mine. They belong to the people and events of my passage through life. For once the dam is breached its contents flow unabridged. - Milton Carp, poet at 91"
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