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The Writer's Journey with Laura Davis Podcast — 134 episodes
Pause for Peace: Remembering Our Descendants
Join Me On a Free Virtual Vacation on the Camino de Santiago
Pause for Peace: A Meditation
Pause for Peace: Thanks
Confessions of the Queen of Abundance
Pause for Peace: Made Anew
Without the Brain I Am Used To
Pause for Peace: What to Do
Join Me in Baja: A Memoir Retreat on the Sea of Cortez
Pause for Peace: Instructions on Not Giving Up
Middle age feels permanent and endless—until it ends
Pause for Peace: Small Pleasures
Two Hundred Days of Photographs
Pause for Peace: Loving in a Broken Time
The Work I Am Not at Liberty to Quit
Pause for Peace: Pray for Peace
Our Time Will Come
Pause for Peace: testify
They Made Me Part of History
Pause for Peace: The Moment
What Every Author Craves
Pause for Peace: Listening for the Singing
Pause for Peace: As Time Goes By
How to Lead a Writing Retreat People Never Forget
Pause for Peace: drop in the bucket
A Wedding Blessing from the Red Sea
I Could Still Let Her Comfort Me Then
Pause for Peace: The Low Road
Pause for Peace: Morning News
The Summer I Dropped Acid with My Father
Pause for Peace: Blessing When the World is Ending
And So I Walk
Pause for Peace: Summons
I've Hated Shopping for Clothes My Entire Life
Pause for Peace: Resistance
Pause for Peace: Defense
Hard Choices
Pause of Peace: Rays of Kindness
The Stage I Never Planned to Take
Pause for Peace: Blessing
The Endings We Know and the Ones That Sneak Up on Us
Pause for Peace: Still I Rise
Embracing a Different Camino
Pause for Peace: Arguments for Peace
UPDATE: Fear Isn't a Stop Sign—It's a Doorway
Pause for Peace: Interwoven
When Your Body Finally Speaks
Pause for Peace: The Great Rift Valley, Kenya
A Photo a Day Keeps Despair at Bay
Pause for Peace: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege
When Cancer Becomes the Easy Part
Pause for Peace: Land of 10,000 Lakes
The Body That Chose Life
Pause for Peace: How
A Different Kind of Anorexia
Pause for Peace: Gate A-4
The Body Budget
Pause for Peace: My Pledge of Allegiance
The Face in the Mirror
Pause for Peace: Is There an Angel in the House?
The Hippie Dad Who Never Stopped Writing
Pause for Peace: The Most Important Thing
The Portal in the Wound
Pause for Peace: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse
Things I Didn't Know I Loved
Pause for Peace: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
Crossing the Border into Aging
Pause for Peace: Aftermath
The Sanctuary of Three Empty Weeks
Pause for Peace: Embracing Our Imperfections
The Crawl Space Under the Stairs
Pause for Peace: V'ahavta
What I'm Waiting For
Pause for Peace: Nothing More, Nothing Less
Dear Cancer,
Pause for Peace: I Can't Help But Love This World as I Know It Is Dying
What's On My Bedside Table?
Pause for Peace: Perhaps, this world is broken
Pause for Peace: Listen to the Birds, Not the News
When Your Body Speaks and You Have to Listen
Pause for Peace: We Were Made for These Times
Fear Isn't a Stop Sign—It's a Doorway
Pause for Peace: Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
Writers and Artists: A Call for Submissions
Pause for Peace: Do Not Be Afraid of the Dark
Writing Your Way Through Time
Pause for Peace: Going Home the Longest Way Around
My Muse Took Me On a Journey
Pause for Peace: It Is Enough
There Is Nothing Here You Cannot Meet
Pause for Peace: Detached From Outcome
How to Create Tension Between Characters in Your Memoir
How Great Writing Prompts Generated the Best Material in My Memoir
Pause for Peace: For When I Am Hard on Myself
The Kinds Of Silence I Have Known
Pause for Peace: Let Them Not Say
Pause for Peace: Womanifesto
Pause for Peace: November 6
Pause for Peace: For Love
Pause for Peace: Hope is a Form of Resistance
Pause for Peace: Don't Hesitate
Join Me On a Great Virtual Vacation + July Recommendations
Pause for Peace: At Albany Bulb with Elaine
Pause for Peace: For Citizenship
Lessons From My Students: Exploring the Power of a Repeating Line
Pause for Peace: For When People Ask
Send My Love to Anyone
Pause for Peace: First Reaction
When I Put Love at the Head of the Table
Pause for Peace: Continue
My Love Affair with the Human Voice
Pause for Peace: Poem in Which I Choose a Bundle of Kale Next to a Stranger
LAURA'S JUNE RECOMMENDATIONS
Pause for Peace: Hold Out Your Hand
Pause for Peace: For the Hardest Days
My Path to Finding My Substack DNA
Pause for Peace: Send Love--It Matters
What Hasn't Changed?
I Have Decided to Pay Attention
Passport to Freedom, Passport to Fear
An Antidote to Despair
There Are So Many Ways to Feel Triggered Right Now
What Does It Mean to Have Grit In an Ongoing Emergency?
I'm Standing on the Edge of...
I Might Have Cancer Again
Reclaiming Joy
What They Can't Take Away From Me
Build Community as If Your Life Depends on It—Because It Does
Gaining Perspective in a World We've Never Faced Before
What Makes a Great Writing Prompt?
Start Here! Welcome to the Writer's Journey
If You Want to Mine the Deepest Material in Your Writing, Here’s How...
What's Broken?
How to Keep Yourself Safe While Writing About the Hard Stuff