The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick

The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick

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The Cure for Sleep: Out of Body
Season 3, 002: Share a story of boundary crossing or transcendence - a time when you felt yourself joining with someone or something beyond your self…
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The Cure for Sleep: Open House
Season 3, 007: use a room in your current house or a former home to tell us a story of your values, your habits: where you've lived, what you've lived…
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The Cure for Sleep: Voices Around Us
Season 3, 001: What messages did you receive from family, community, institutions when growing up? What was praised? What punished?
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The Cure for Sleep: Terrible Questions
Season 3, 003: What's the most difficult question you've ever asked - or had to answer? One where you felt your whole world depended on it...
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A tender thing
a decision after 8 years of public work (including these three incredibly rich ones I’ve spent curating soul stories on Substack)
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The Cure for Sleep: Why Do You Write &...
Season 3, 006: …what challenges do you face when doing so?
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The Cure for Sleep: Impossible Objects
Season 3, 005: Tell the story of an object in your home (or one you remember from childhood) which holds great and uncertain emotional power...
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The Cure for Sleep: Stay This Moment
Season 3, 004: Tell me about a time of great love or purpose in your life that you return to often in memory...
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Let's all say hello to each other...
More and more subscribers to The Cure for Sleep are now writing for the project as well as reading the prompts.
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The Cure for Sleep: Taking Stock
Season 2, 010: In this last edition of Season Two, let's share our stories of account-keeping - those times when we need to take a frank look at who we…
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The Cure for Sleep: Gestures, Remembered
Season 2, 009: share a story of a gone loved one - their particular gestures or habits; what those meant to you...
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The Cure for Sleep: Reading
Season 2, 008: Scenes from our reading lives: What books (given, lent, lost, found, shared, annotated, more) - or memories of reading/being read to …
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The Cure For Sleep: Mentors
Season 2, 006: tell me about a great mentor or teacher in your life - or the one you dream of but have yet to find...
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The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick
The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick
Writing prompts for waking up & making a more creative second half of life. Explore and respond to three seasons of free themes from author Tanya Shadrick. Discover like-minds and share your short true soul stories with other life-writers...
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Slow Art for BBC Radio 4
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