title: Lifelines: How Personal Writing Can Save Your Life
author:  Christina Baldwin 
description: Christina Baldwin has taught nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, and has contributed classic books in the emerging bodies of knowledge around personal writing, group process and spirituality. Her first work, One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans, 1977, rev. 1991) is a pioneering text that has remained in continuous print for a quarter of a century. Her marvelous sequel, Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest (Bantam 1990), extended the art of journal writing to spiritual practice. These titles have sold over 150,000 copies. In the early 1990's, Christina began developing a group process methodology that led to the concepts presented in her ground-breaking work, Calling the Circle: the First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998). This book has introduced thousands of people to a practical, hands-on structure for convening their meetings in circle and tapping collective wisdom. She has taken this work to the heart of mainstream culture in North America, Europe, and Africa.
zlib_text: **Lifelines**
  
  Caroline Leavitt
  
  Dzanc Books  
  5220 Dexter Ann Arbor Rd  
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  Copyright © 1982 by Caroline Leavitt
  
  All rights reserved, except for brief quotations in critical articles or
  reviews. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior
  written permission from the publisher.
  
  Published 2014 by Dzanc Books  
  A Dzanc Books r _E_ print Series Selection eBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-94108819-7  
  eBook Cover Designed by Awarding Book Covers Published in the United States of
  America _The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity
  to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the
  author_.
  
  This is for the other Leavitts in my life—Helen, Ruthy, and the memory of
  Henry For Patty Malanchak for barre space shared and friendship given For
  Linda Corcoran and Jimmy Lambros—with love—for the pony and Millie Fogley and
  for the care they took to shelter me from my storms