IPM’s Impact on People’s Lives
At The Institute for Poetic Medicine, we've learned that poetry-as-healer:
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encourages integration
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empowers wholeness
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acts as a catalyst for genuine hope
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creates a community that nurtures lasting growth
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welcomes self-expression
Over the years IPM has touched hundreds of lives and these are some of the stories we are pleased to share.
Charles R. Perakis
Poetry Offered Another Way of Seeing the World
"I have learned to trust the process and get out of the way of my own creativity."
Jack Coulehan, MD
Physician as Poet
An Interview with Jack Coulehan, Poet/Physician by John Bowman
Joe Milosch
Bringing Poetry to Students and Veterans
"The effect of writing this poem was a stepping stone towards dealing with my grief."
Don Winslow
Brought to Poetry through Illness
"Poetry has allowed me to be emotionally expressive, a place I had never visited."
Nancy Story
Poetry Reveals There Is Nothing but Meaning
"Listening in silence to the healings we were requesting through our community and our poems sent waves of healing through me."
Richard Rosenfield, PhD
Brought the Healing Power of Words into Mainstream Psychology
John Fox reflects on his friend and the essay that he wrote "borne from a dynamic combination of wisdom and vulnerability."
Lisa A. Bertsch
Called to Live Life More Consciously
"Writing about my experiences gave me new perspective and skills."
John Joseph Bowman
What Poetry Brings Us When Facing Aging and Death
"Poetry is like my fourth meal of the day. I need it and enjoy the taste of it."