Pathway To Promise Podcast W/ Dr. Brad Miller

From Tragedy to Poetry: How Writing Can Help Process Grief and Adversity with Patricia B. Schoeler the Author of “Grief Hurts”

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Pat is a professional in the field of writing and poetry.She has written three books, namely, The Day America Cried!: So Many Innocents Died 9-11-01, Reflections On Life: Pocket Philosophy, and her latest book, Grief Hurts.In this episode, Pat shared the 9/11 tragedy and how it led her to write her first book, how she naturally processes events through writing, and the actions she took to process tragedy. During the time of the 9/11 tragedy, Pat was just having a typical day, drinking coffee and eating breakfast. But suddenly, the world is shaken as the tragedy has begun. Because she and her partner lived in New Jersey, just eight and a half miles from ground zero, Pat could see the chaos that sprang.As Pat watched the tragedy, she started to process what was happening and write it down in a poetic form, essentially writing down facts and history with the emotion it has. This mark the beginning of how Pat sees and processes a story and writes it down.Furthermore, Pat talks about how grief is universal and man