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HIRAETHLON

Find Your Longing

Create Your Way Home

Hiraethlon:
full of longing for a home you've never known.


Here, we explore ideas of identity, wellness, and beLonging through creativity & self-inquiry. 

It is a normal human experience to struggle, question, rage, laugh & long for peace - an internal home -  that feels elusive & just out of reach. Has anyone taken your hand & led you into this space of emotional paradox? Have you ever been allowed to be exactly how you need to be while also seeking something...more? Better? Different? 

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Through various creative mediums, Hiraethlon offers a journey toward resiliency, acceptance & quite possibly a home never before imagined - or imagined, but never thought possible.

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Welcome - let this be your first stop toward home. 

Upcoming Events

  • Sunday Night Writes - community weekly writing group (10 weeks)
    Sunday Night Writes - community weekly writing group (10 weeks)
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Oct 20
    Zoom
    Oct 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CDT
    Zoom
    Oct 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CDT
    Zoom
    Join us weekly or whenever you can for community building, wellness-seeking, and all-around fun while writing to explore our human experience. Tickets are priced for individual meetings OR a bundle of 10 at a discount.
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The Nest

I am a published poet & writer, Poetry Therapy Practitioner & Peer Support Specialist working in the mental health field. I combine emotional self-inquiry with creative writing & offer The Nest: a new kind of creative community & one branch of what Hiraethlon offers. Financial circumstances should not be a barrier to access these offerings so if you would benefit from a reduced fee, contact me and we'll discuss potential options. If you are in a time of financial abundance and wish to donate toward making reduced fees possible, please email me for details. 

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The Nest holds:

  • Virtual & in-person nurturing spaces for supported, brave & creative exploration

  • Group & one-on-one guidance, wisdom & encouragement using creative writing & emotional self-inquiry to imagine & shape your idea of wholeness

  • 3 different tiers of opportunity depending on your specific needs to go deeper with your writing & emotional exploration. Read more about it on the Plans and Pricing page. 

  • Some specific writing-related offerings, depending on the tier:

    • manuscript consultation​

    • establishing creative goals & habits

    • poetry feedback

    • guidance around the poetry submission process

    • ways to reflect on your life using creative inquiry & writing

    • opportunities to receive poetry therapy from a credentialed poetry therapy practitioner

    • reframing your struggles from an inclusive, compassionate, and resilient lens

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The I'm Okay Collective

The I'm Okay Collective is a space to reimagine & redefine the way we look at mental health. Together, we build a community by creating:

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  • A chorus of voices speaking our Okayness amidst whatever emotions we navigate.

  • A sanctuary to express feelings & with brave curiosity, challenge the clinical & mainstream models we've been given throughout our lives.

  • A place to reframe what society has deemed "mentally ill" or "sick" & view these words as opportunities to investigate our human experience.

  • A way to redefine & reclaim this emotional landscape from a place of informed choice. 

  • Note that certain tiers of The Nest offerings include a guest blog post or publication of a poem by YOU.

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The I'm Okay Collective is a wonderful companion to The Nest where creative writing is combined with this emotional wellness initiative. 

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Readings & Public Events

Are you looking for a professional writer and/or emotional health advocate to speak or present at an event? Are you looking for a dynamic & engaging poet?  I attend virtual & in-person readings & events to read my poetry, speak on peer support & mental health, reframing grief, publishing & how creative writing & self-compassion are primary modalities for a wholehearted & meaningful life.

Values I Hold

  • Choice: we can define who we are & who we become 

  • Compassion: we are imperfect beings doing the best with what we have & know

  • Mystery: the human experience is an emotional paradox we get to unravel knowing there is healing in connection.

Meet Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie Poet & Mental Health Advocate, Founder of Hiraethlon

Hello! My name is Lisa Marie. I have carefully & lovingly prepared this space for you. You are most welcome here. 

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Hiraethlon was born out of my own feelings of lostness, depression & feeling like an "other" in a world that seemed to make sense to everyone but me - until I expanded my vision (and career) to include peer support, poetry therapy & a variety of healing modalities.

I learned that home is not just a location but a mentality, feeling & journey - possibly a longing never fully quenched.

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I hope to show & share how a world-weary, not-knowing journey is a perfect starting point in your search for beLonging & home. 

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Visit my about page for a more detailed story of how & why I am here. 

Bio

 "And in my travels, when I see a hill dotted with sheep or a staff lying among chestnut leaves, I am moved by a sense of longing to be again what I was not."

 Patti Smith, Woolgathering

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