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.
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