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Writing and Healing: Staying Safe in a Room Full of Elephants

by Sharon Lippincott on April 24, 2011

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Memoir Writers and Journalers Need to Stay Safe in a Room Full of Elephants

Sharon Lippincott

Elephants in Chobe Nat'l Park, Botswana“How can you tell when there’s an elephant in the room?”

“You can smell the peanuts on his breath.”

This simple joke derives much of its power from the fact that we’ve all been in rooms with phantom elephants at one time or another. The humor in the joke is that someone breaks the taboo and speaks of it. In real life we [click to continue…]

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