Healing with Haiku: A Poetic Exploration of Self invites you to delve into your innermost self, both emotionally and spiritually, through the art of haiku. This form of poetry, with its emphasis on careful observation, contemplation, and honest vulnerability, allows you to navigate personal challenges while aspiring for a balanced, peaceful, and joyous life.
Therapeutic writing has long been a cornerstone of wellness programs, particularly those addressing trauma, addiction, anxiety, and stress. This insightful work merges the healing power of therapeutic writing with the mindfulness and self-expression of haiku, providing readers with a structured yet creative way to process significant moments and emotions.
In Healing with Haiku, you will learn to:
• Compose authentic haiku using the 5-7-5 syllable structure
• Choose emotional language to better express yourself
• Write with both guided prompts and personal inspiration
Create deeply meaningful haiku and discover new ways to articulate what is true and important to you.
About the Author
Anne Helfer, LCSW, is an integrative psychotherapist specializing in grief counseling, health and wellness and stress management. As a social worker and mental health therapist she has worked with children and adults, always with the goal of empowering all of us to live more authentically. She has a Master’s in Social Work from Syracuse University. A practicing yogi for nearly 30 years, she also teaches mindfulness and mediation practices. In 2016, she self-published the well-received book Eat Well, Sleep Better, Move More: A Journey of Self-Care.
Praise for Healing with Haiku
“Healing With Haiku contains Anne’s fiery passion for writing and guides readers to insights that pierce through to healing. It is a powerful resource.” —Gary Weinstein, LCSW, therapist
“Both informative and engaging, Anne presents a clear process to develop the reader’s authenticity by writing. In so doing, the reader is engaged in the curiously revealing art of the haiku. What once may have been unclear, this book reveals—both the power of haiku and the authentic self.” —Bill Cross PhD, LMFT, psychotherapist
“Healing With Haiku is a phenomenal tool in a therapist’s toolbox. The instructions to create and use haiku to access and process emotions are clear and concise, and provides a perfect method for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of themselves and transform their emotional landscape.” —Lisa Harrell, PhD, LCP
“Through haiku, Anne encourages the reader to delve into the soul, but does so gently, opening the self to deeper understanding. I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking self-exploration and healing.” —Kate Lewis, PhD
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Healing with Haiku
Written by Anne Helfer, LCSW
978-1-961293-14-4, $18.00 paperback
978-1-961293-15-1, $9.99 eBook
Published by Hatherleigh Press.
Distributed through Penguin Random House.
Available wherever books are sold.
www.hatherleighpress.com
