How to Regain Your Soul with Victoria Field

How to Regain Your Soul

In his poem, ‘How to Regain Your Soul’, William Stafford writes, ‘The white butterflies dance/ by the thousands in the still sunshine’. This is an apt image for the multi-faceted ways our psyches appear to ourselves and others. Where does the idea of a soul fit into our sense of self?

Many individuals experience both a distancing from established religious practices and terminology, and simultaneously, a yearning for a metaphysical framework to make sense of their lives. In my research on pilgrimage and on a year-long writers residency at Truro Cathedral, I noted how poetry and expressive writing can give us non-dogmatic and permissive ways of exploring the bigger questions of how we live and want to live.

has published poetry, a memoir, translations, and edited books on therapeutic writing. Her co-translation with Natalia Bukia-Peters of Georgian poet Lia Sturua’s On The Contrary won the 2024 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation. She is a Sessional Academic at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate in the Academy of Sustainable Futures. Her PhD explored narratives of transformation in pilgrimage. She collaborates with Eduard Heyning on music and poetry performances often inspired by sacred spaces. She mentors for the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy on the use of poetry and expressive writing in the community.

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