Writings on Sacred Connection
Where writing becomes prayer and healing becomes remembering
When illness made it impossible to live within the structures of the modern world, I found my way to the earth as a teacher. In that sacred relationship—with trees, rivers, and the vast intelligence of the natural world—I discovered writing as a pathway home to the sacred. These pieces explore the intersection of personal healing and planetary healing, where our individual restoration becomes inseparable from our relationship with all life.
Earth as a teacher
When illness made modern life impossible, the earth became my classroom
"On Writing a Healing Scroll"
A journey through environmental illness that led to swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon and discovering the indestructible life force that connects all beings.
"Writing to Come Home"
An invitation to remember our essential interconnection with the web of life through sacred writing practice—because the crisis of climate change is ultimately a crisis of forgetting.
"The Words that Called Me Back to Life: Writing as Medicine, Writing as Prayer"
The origin story of teaching people to write prayers in their own words, born from a profound encounter at Chaco Canyon.
Healing through story
The broken places where light enters
"Lost and Found in My Mother s Kitchen" (Memoir Chapters)
Four chapters exploring the healing that unfolded when I returned to my childhood home after my
mother s death and began cooking in the kitchen where she hadn't been for 33 years.
"Four Words for Tumultuous Times"
How we can relate to environmental crises with presence rather than overwhelm.
Prayers for our time
When the world breaks open, we learn to pray
In the Arms of Angels"
Written in response to the October 7th, 2023 attacks on the Nova Music Festival. This poem became a healing for all victims of violence in war and was read at a ceremony at that same site.
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Writing Prayers for Our Earth
Join our free monthly writing circle where we gather to pray in our own words for the healing of our world.
Writing Your Deepest Prayer
A transformative self-study course available on DailyOm. Participants describe life-changing experiences through this gentle yet powerful writing practice.
For questions about private sessions or deeper conversations about this work, reach out
directly via email.
Email: debora@deboraseidman.com
We are living through a time of great unraveling--and also a time of possibility. Writing has been soul medicine for me throughout my life, and these pieces arise from that lifelong practice of healing, prayer and Earth-connection. I offer them as nourishment for your own journey, and as pathways of remembering, repair and renewal.
