"While I sometimes resist the work of writing, I resist my own psychic suffering more, and writing has become for me a primary means of digesting and integrating my experiences and thereby reducing the pains of living, or if not, at least making them useful to myself and to others. There is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention."
-- Melissa Febos, Body Work
I have always experienced writing as part of a life of psychological attunement. The page, before it is anything else, is our witness. But by writing I mean not only journaling, I also mean writing with skill and craft. That's because living a psychological life means taking on your story as your own. Yes, it may begin with a simple transcription of events, but a psychological life always requires facing the hard stuff, letting go of the story you thought you knew, and creating the story that is only yours to tell. Writing is the place where we confront our own voices most profoundly. That's why I started hosting intimate writing retreats at New Queens Haven, to combine psychoanalytic listening and self-knowing processes with writing craft, on topics that hit most deeply. Read below for a list of current offerings, and send me an email if you have ideas for topics you'd like to work on in future retreats. I can't wait to see you here. XX Tracy
August, 2024
Accord, NY
A weekend intensive, collectively joining together to write the maternal body each in individual ways.
Details coming soon.