Hi, I'm Elizabeth; I love reading. Whether for escaping, awakening imagination, expanding awareness, or healing, I revere the power of literature. In the past ten years or so, I have become a voracious consumer of non-fiction; poetry collections, academic papers, essays, & magazine articles have all acted as guideposts through trauma recovery, parenting, career building, and self-nurture. While in university, I completed a certification in bibliotherapy, an experience that further pulsed yearning to use literature to help others on their healing journeys. Most recently, I remembered through reflection after a therapy session that I loved reading fiction as a young girl. In the hectic chaos of my teen years and accompanying adulthood, I had forgotten this simple truth about myself, so in a quest to reconnect with my inner child, I have taken to reading fiction again, and find my time spent in stories to be sweetly sacred. My most recent writing venture is a website, exhalations by elizabeth ann. exhalations is a dwelling to honor the out breath of those that have inspired me, and a home to compile my own ponderings & experiences in both word and photograph. website: exhalationsbyea.com instagram: @exhalationsbyea threads: @exhalationsbyea twitter: @exhalationsbyea my most recent published poetry collection, Walking through the Forest: love, loss and other tall trees. wildflower edition is available for purchase on Amazon.