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At the end of each month I post an update called Revisions on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to Bookshop.org help maintain this website.  Hi Friends, This has been a big summer for me. On July 19th I graduated with my MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Along with my cohort, we celebrated three years of hard work and dedication. There has been a lot of celebrating, a little traveling, and mostly finding my way back to some semblance of a routine. With Love, Kerry (she/her)  Upcoming Events: Facilitating in September:
Attending in September:
 Past Events: Attended in August:
 Published in August 2026:
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the king of beasts shows his patina  Read in August 2026 (The Sealey Challenge Edition):
 Community Card Pull: What is important for you to know right now? Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Card: The modern interpretation of the Ace of Pentacles is youthful enthusiasm, creativity, and a spark of inspiration.  Little Free Poetry Therapy Library: [Doesn't exist yet] but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library called The Poetry Cottage. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry can be therapeutic.  Current Therapist's Book Club Selection: I belong to a book club with other therapists, though we rarely read anything related to therapy. We gravitate toward nonfiction, mystery/suspense/thriller, and upmarket fiction and take recommendations. The Wedding by Vandana Nair "Dr. Ahilya Kapoor dreads heading to her hometown in India for the lavish wedding of Radhika, her young cousin, who's captured the bachelor of the season. Entangled between two worlds, Ahilya's independent career as an epidemiologist for the WHO causes constant friction with her family's desire for her to 'settle down and marry.' During the festivities, Ahilya finds herself drawn to a handsome cardiologist from London. She envisages the possibility of a future that weaves her two worlds in harmony. But, just as things start going well, a mysterious illness sweeps through the gathering and Ahilya is wrapped up in events that will change everyone’s lives. Full of sharp wit, familial drama, cultural clashes, and unexpected encounters, The Wedding explores the complexities of tradition and modernity, and the universal search for love and belonging in a time of transition and turmoil."  Dead Haijin: With body and soul this skinny little mantis met every struggle Issa Dead Poet: but I to you of a white goat and I will pour wine over Sappho Vintage Art:  Quote to Remember: "The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them." -Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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At the end of each month I post an update called Revisions on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to Bookshop.org help maintain this website.  Hi Friends, As a Gemini, I love change. June is a time of many transitions: the school year comes to a close, spring becomes summer, and the light peaks before turning towards the dark. This is also a transition time for me. In July I will graduate with my MFA in Creative Writing. It's a bittersweet moment. There is relief in completing three years of consistent work, but sadness in the program coming to an end. Though, endings are also beginnings. I'm starting to imagine my post-MFA life. I'm in the early stages of merging my love of therapy and creative writing. With Love, Kerry  Upcoming Events: Readings in July 2026:
Facilitating in July 2026:
 Past Events: Attended in June 2026:
 Accidental Devotions by Kelli Russell Agodon Published in June 2026:
waves crashing on the rocks-- tequila sunrise   Read in June 2026:
 Glitter Road by January Gill O'Neill Community Card Pull: What is important for you to know right now? Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Card: The modern interpretation of the Ace of Pentacles is abundance, manifestation, opportunity, prosperity, especially related to career or finances.  Ace of Pentacles Poetry Is Therapy Little Free Library: [Doesn't exist yet] but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library to bring together my loves of personal exploration and poetry. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry is therapeutic.  Current Therapist's Book Club Selection: I belong to a book club with other therapists, though we rarely read anything related to therapy. We gravitate toward nonfiction, mystery/suspense/thriller, and upmarket fiction and take recommendations. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell "England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists."  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Dead Haijin: Under such a calm spring moon, even the tortoise crows this season? Issa Dead Poet: ]invites ]all not ]feast ]for Hera ] ]as long as ] ] Sappho Vintage Art:  Quote to Remember: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet At the end of each month I post an update called Revisions on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to Bookshop.org help maintain this website.  If you've visited this space before, you may notice a new name for the monthly posts. My intention is to shift my focus to writing and writing as a conduit for emotional healing. At some point I hope to also publish these posts as a newsletter on Substack, so over the next few months I will be trying a new format. I recently took a Therapists Who Tarot training with Dreya Bloom. I was already interested in Tarot & oracle cards, but this took it to an 11. I've already purchased multiple decks and have been drawing a card every day on my Instagram. So, I thought I would do a community pull every month and post it here. I'll share information on the card and the deck. Though not yet realized it has also been a dream to start a Little Free Library. I will update you here on my progress. As usual, I will post the groups I will be facilitating, classes or trainings I attended, and any recent publications. Along with the books I'm reading or completed in the past month and some of my favorite haiku, poetry, music, and quotes. Enjoy.  Facilitating in February 2026:
Attended in January 2026:
Publications in January 2026:  Community Card Pull: What is important for you to know right now?  Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Card: The modern interpretation of the High Priestess represents the unknown, mystery, intuition, spiritual knowledge, and the subconscious mind. My Little Free Library: (Doesn't exist yet) but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library to bring together my loves of personal exploration and poetry. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry is therapeutic.  Books I Finished in January:
 The Wedding People by Alison Espach Current Book Club Selection: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi "His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their "rightful owners." With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered."  Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Haiku: snow melting . . . the village floods with children! Issa Dead Poet (replace): After great pain, a formal feeling comes (372) by Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,' And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'? The Feet, mechanical, go round – A Wooden way Of Ground, or Air, or Ought – Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone – This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go – Vintage Art:  Song on Repeat: Undiscovered by Ashlee Simpson "I can't try any harder than I do All the reasons I gave, excuses I made for you I'm broken in two" Quote to Remember: "You think I’m not a goddess? Try me." - Margaret Atwood |
WelcomeI'm Kerry (She/Her/Hers) and I am a licensed therapist, group facilitator, poet, writer, & speaker. This is a place to acknowledge and validate our suffering and trauma, while also learning how to turn toward aliveness and spaciousness. 
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