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The Ripple: How Intuitive Writing Can Change the World, One Word at a Time

The Ripple, Intuitive Writing, by Laura Di Franco, photograph of journals by Simson Petrol
Photograph by Simson Petrol

A woman’s journey through intuitive writing connects us all to a process for healing the pain of the past

On Christmas Eve I pressed send on a 65,000-word memoir, Love in a Nightmare, detailing the wounds of my childhood. It was attached to an email to my family. The process of writing the narrative for the painful stories of my childhood was the Feng Shui I needed to create space for the healing, and the real book I wanted to share with the world to come through.

I found my best self in the middle of the page when the words I was writing not only began to heal me, but helped me recognize that they could help others. A process I call intuitive writing changed and enhanced my connection to my intuition, inner healer and warrior goddess. Writing authentic words from

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