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When life hurts, writing can help. Twice monthly posts & writing prompts for those living with cancer or other debilitating illness, pain & trauma.

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TO CONTACT SHARON: If you’d like to know more about my classes and workshops, contact me via email here.

Sharon Bray, Ed.D.

(photo by Chad Thompson)
photo by Chad Thompson

I’m a writer, teacher and author of two books on the healing power of writing during cancer:   When Words Heal:  Writing Through Cancer(Frog Books, 2006) andA Healing Journey:  Writing Together through Breast Cancer (Amherst Writers Press, 2004). In 2007, I co-edited, together with Pat Fobair, LCSW, Learning to Live Again,an anthology of cancer patients’ writing  published by the Stanford University School of Medicine. I founded and led the writing program, “Writing Through Cancer” at Breast Cancer Connections (now Bay Area Cancer Connections), Palo Alto from 2001-2007, and later, at the Stanford Cancer Center from 2004 until September 2013).

Beginning in 2006, I initiated and continued leading expressive writing groups for men & women with cancer at Scripps Green Cancer Center, and UCSD Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla, CA, until the Spring of 2017, when my husband and I returned to Toronto.  From 2005-2017,  I led a series of creative writing workshops for The Writers’ Workshop at Stanford Medical School  for faculty, students, alums and staff of the Stanford Medical School.   I also taught an annual week-long summer course, “Writing as a Healing Ministry,”  at the Pacific School of Religion  in Berkeley, CA, 2003 – 2015, and from 2007- 2017, online classes in transformational writing and creative nonfiction for the UCLA extension Writers’ Program.    I currently lead expressive writing workshops for people living with cancer at Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto.

In addition to a career that includes writing, teaching, counseling and executive leadership, I completed a doctoral degree in Applied (Educational) Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as completing additional studies in creative writing and transformative language arts.

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TO CONTACT SHARON: If you’d like to know more about my classes and workshops, contact me via email here.

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