SASHA WOLFE
ARTIST, HEALER, PHOTOGRAPHER
603-938-2115

 Sashapoems

HEALING THROUGH WRITING
Sashapoems and other writings

Sasha's story:
I've been writing forever--- it feels, but serious writing didn't take place until I took a creative writing class at NECC. Oh, I had written a couple of good stories in high school, but it was that college level class that really opened the door. Somehow, in high school, when asked what message the author was trying to get across, I would get stuck on how I was supposed to know what someone else was thinking. At the later class, I "got it" and realized that it was more of what "I felt" about the writing.

After the creative writing and poetry classes at NECC, I started keeping journals--- oh, not every day, just when something bothered me or inspired me. At the time, I was in an abusive relationship and my husband would read my journals and find fault with what I wrote and if I didn't write, he wanted to know what I was hiding from him. That shut my creativity down for awhile and finished off what self-esteem I'd had.

Years after that relationship ended, I had a driving desire to find my creativity again. I began listening to self-help tapes on creativity. I discovered David Whyte (my favorite poet,) who talked about "going into the well," Julia Cameron who advised writing Morning Pages and Natalie Goldberg's suggestion to, "Keep the pen moving." I began writing daily and what I discovered was priceless.

I'd be journaling about mundane things when "something else" would come through and it would turn into a poem. I began putting the poems in a different book. Then one day my therapist told me that I didn't need her anymore, that my writing was my therapy.

What I found was that even in writing about sadness and grief, the act of putting those words on the page brought me such joy. It's like giving birth and that first sight was sometimes not very pretty, but the more I looked, the more I was able to see beauty. I was further intrigued by the fact that there was a huge release in my soul when I was able to put my feelings onto a page. I was able to turn my unhappiness into joy! And then when others began to relate to my writings, I knew I wasn't alone in how I felt.

I began sharing more and more. I'd e-mail poems or write a periodic newsletter. In 1995, I self published a little book called "They Will Never Write Songs About Me" and in 1997, "Dancing With Butterflies" and would occasionally have poems in anthologies. In 2008 I won an Editors Choice Award from the International Library of Poets for my poem "Transformation." Now, after 10 years, I have published another book.

"My Life Isn't Flowers" is a combination of poetry, photography, and other art work can be purchased by contacting me.

 I'm pleased with this accomplishment as it has brought together some of my best work.

View other poems at www.poetrypoem.com/sashapoems

Because LIFE isn't just about flowers. There are so many interesting aspects to experience, that I cannot narrow my focus into one medium. So, I write, paint, draw, and take many photographs.

So please view my other sites and pages. You can contact me about making purchases of books, cards, pictures, and art work.

I am most honored to have you visit my site. Thank-you.