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Lauren Slagter

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Black Bear

Expecting a ‘Miricle’ in My First AA Meeting

What do these meetings offer someone who doesn’t believe in a Higher Power? Is God essential to breaking patterns of addictive behavior?

Nov 18

Neon sign that reads: This is the sign you’ve been looking for

Nov 18

We Are Saying Thank You

An invitation to a virtual meetup for guided writing prompts related to gratitude

Nov 9

Plastic container of homemade chocolate chip cookies with the note: With love, support and hope for something better tomorrow

Nov 9

Published in
Write A Catalyst

3 Strategies for Using Personal Stories to Advocate for Systemic Change

Make the system you want to change the setting for your story

Oct 7

3 Strategies for Using Personal Stories to Advocate for Systemic Change

Oct 7

Finding Hope on the Screen of an Insulin Controller

On trusting God and medical technology to adjust to a new normal with Type 1 Diabetes

Oct 1

Finding Hope on the Screen of an Insulin Controller

Oct 1

Published in
Practice in Public

Why I Recommend Taking Writing Prompts from Poetry

This approach has opened up my writing in fun and unexpected ways

Sep 23

Why I Recommend Taking Writing Prompts from Poetry

Sep 23

Published in
Human Parts

Carrying Grief and Gratitude through the End of Summer

You can’t have it all, but you can have sweetness and sorrow in abundance

Sep 12

Rainbow over the pine trees on Drummond Island, Michigan

Sep 12

August in the Books

Higher ed and classism, wild women of rural Michigan, and the thrill of a thriller

Aug 31

August in the Books

Aug 31

July in the Books

I got to know Dorian Gray, Jennette McCurdy, the poetry of St. Lucia, and why The Bluest Eye is on so many banned book lists

Aug 3

July in the Books

Aug 3

Why Aren’t You Writing More?

How a virtual writing group can help cure your writer’s block

Aug 2

Why Aren’t You Writing More?

Aug 2

Published in
The Writer’s Way

Is Fear an Essential Part of the Creative Process?

What writing has taught me about confronting fear head-on

Jul 16

Is Fear an Essential Part of the Creative Process?

Jul 16

Lauren Slagter

Lauren Slagter

she/her

Interested in storytelling for social change, creative practices & the Fourth Estate | Write with me: mailchi.mp/92e23bd23276/finding-your-voice-writing-group

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