Writer. Prof. Dem. Lattes. Pub Weekly calls my latest "an engrossing family drama" available everywhere! FENCING WITH THE KING: https://xitter.cf/t.co/Itzud0v6DN
Fort Lauderdale / Portland
Joined June 2008
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Wonderful chat today with MPR - Diana Abu-Jaber on family secrets and inheritance - Fencing With the King just out with a new paperback cover🤺MPR News - goo.gl/alerts/iwkzgL #GoogleAlerts
DIY Brain Retraining 😃
Life throws its stressballs—not too much we can do about that.
What we can do is practice how to respond.
One way is to record your own visualization meditation.. More here dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
Homework for Nervous Geniuses
Steinbeck wrote in the morning. Afternoons were for physical work. The wisdom here isn’t in the specific formula but in that he paid attention to and worked with his body’s rhythms. A balanced body supports a creative mind...substack.com/@dianaabujaber
A Ceremony for Before-Writing
I am calm and at peace. (Breathe)
I release and accept. (Breathe)
I let it flow through. (Breathe)
I am safe. I am calm. I am peace. (Breathe)
Body, mind, and soul – all is well. (Breathe) substack.com/@dianaabujaber
Are you a pusher? An achiever? Sometimes the biggest “win” is stopping with all that winning.
For those who are burned out, wiped out, chronically fatigued, or just kinda over it - a couple of tips for taking off the pressure, here… dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
Reconnected with an old friend.
Caught this snap of us under a picture of our spiritual grandmother.
May we learn to sing with all our hearts.
Part of recovery from stress & dysregulation is finding those those instructions & rituals in the everyday, speaking to us, giving comfort, giving permission to release, awaken, and come alive. I write about it here, would love to see you there. dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
Got into indepth discussion of berries at the market. We both got super invested. Then she said Omg do you like to read? and now I think I’m in a book club.
My dad taught me to always always talk to strangers.
I got so weak I was afraid I’d never write again,
Never be able to hold a novel in my head again.
A friend said I’d write my way back to health.
I wasn’t sure, but over time, that was what happened,
I’m writing about it in A Book of Ways
substack.com/@dianaabujaber
Free writing—loose, unedited, liberated—allows us to enter flow state.substack.com/@dianaabujaber/…
Your brain: “It’s safe.”
Your nervous system: “That's adorable.”
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A free upcoming Re-Origin webinar on trauma and the nervous system explains why.
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This Wednesday September 9 • 1 PM ET re-origin.com/free-live-webi…
Inoculations, What to do when your head won’t cooperate or: how I
learned to stop worrying and love the challenge dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
Back in the days of printing everything out, my old writing advisor John Gardner used to tell indifferent students, “a tree died for this story.” Now I hear his voice every time one of those gigantic Restoration Hardware catalogs shows up in the mail. A tree died for this..😩
Boundaries are like bacon--they make everything better. dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
“The only true voyage of discovery…would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another…”
— Proust
My journey won’t be the same as yours. But I can show you the path I took—& cheer you on. dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…
Diana Abu-Jaber retweeted
So this happened: iowacityofliterature.org/chr…
A few years ago, my nervous system staged a coup.
This is what I learned about finding my way back.
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I’m beginning a new project, A Book of Ways. The first piece is here: The Wizard and the Journey. dianaabujaber.substack.com/p…