In this episode, podcaster Tracy Crow, an author, writing coach, and Marine Corps veteran, kicks off March and Women's History Month with a little personal history about how and why she and co-author Jerri Bell created their book, It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan, and their surprising discoveries along the way. Until this project, Tracy confesses, "We had no idea on whose shoulders we'd been standing, in whose shoes we'd been attempting to fill...." despite their thirty years of combined military service. Their pact, she explains, was that this book would not devolve to a warmongering collection. "Truth is," she says, "Jerri and I wouldn't wish the war experience on anyone." Their goal was to give a voice to so many silenced women -- in many cases, silenced for more than a century -- and to allow their stories to be told in their own words from their letters, journals, depositions, media interviews, oral histories, and published and unpublished memoirs. "The curators and librarians were downright giddy," Tracy says, and led them to stacks and stacks of unpublished memoirs. As Tracy reveals, for more than two thousand years women have lived largely oppressed. "The waking has been slow and painful," she says. "It's time to wake up, Holy Rebel Goddesses." Wake up, Holy Rebel Goddesses!
EP #34: Navy veteran, author shares excerpts from new novel, No Salvation
EP #33: Who's fired up for (stained) glass?
EP #32: How to inspire creativity at the 9-to-5!
EP #31: Fear of gardening? What could possibly go wrong?
EP #30: Part 2 -- "Train's Comin'"! Military wife reads excerpt from PTSD memoir
EP #29: Part 1 -- Military wife uses writing as a pathway through PTSD
EP #28: Portrait artist redefines self-expression through abstract painting
EP #27: A celebration of poets and their poetry -- part 2!
EP #26: DISCLAIMER -- These poems may change you!
EP #25: Pulling paintings out of the fire -- nurse practioner finds meaning in the journey
EP #24: Part 1 -- Pediatric psychiatric nurse practioner blends science and art to refill her well
EP #23: Part 2 -- Novelist, Navy vet Jeffery Hess discusses value of writing workshops, personal process
EP #22: Part 1 -- Novelist, Navy vet crafts newest book from historic events
EP #21: Part 2: Discovering stillness, gifts through life-changing Vision Quest
EP #20: Part 1-- No phone, food, or shelter...she's answering the call for a Vision Quest in the NC wilderness
EPISODE 19: Part 2 -- How viewing life through the lens of a storyteller reveals truths & the true Self
EPISODE 18: Part 1-- Going viral...writer discovers surprising gifts amid storm of negativity
EPISODE 17: Part 2 -- Army veteran reads excerpt of compelling PTSD memoir
EPISODE 16: Part 1 -- Writing journey transforms Army vet from PTSD agoraphobia to "new normal-BIG life"
EPISODE 15: After trauma, she's sewing, quilting a new life -- "one stitch at a time"
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