CREATIVITY AND CONNECTION
Our Story
Azra, Caitlin, Lisa, and Marisa met at a Highlights Foundation retreat (now Boyds Mills): Writing Through Trauma and Grief to Empower Young Readers. This retreat, in association with Rebecca Dykes Writers, brought us together to sit with hard truths, support one another through the creative process, and practice writing as both an act of healing and a tool for empowerment.
Like a phoenix, we rise.
While Rebecca Dykes Writers has completed its last chapter, the work itself is far from finished. Write to Empower now rises from that legacy. We carry the torch, tend the flame, and expand the circle of those committed to transforming lived experience into meaningful stories.
We came together as a group because we have experienced how storytelling alchemizes trauma and grief into healing gold. We have experienced liberation through creativity and creation.
Spoken or written, sharing words is healing.
It is as old as time itself. Whether spoken into water or written on sand or papyrus, witnessing each other’s existence is what makes meaning and purpose.
WORDS THAT IGNITE
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
RUMI