Welcome! I’m Deborah Bayer, writer and workshop facilitator.
I am (mostly) retired from the practice of Infectious Disease and Palliative Care. I write poems and personal essays, and I’m working on a memoir about the need for emotional support in the workplace.
I facilitate writing groups via Zoom. These groups blend the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) methodology with the Narrative Medicine workshop format.
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A Rope Made of Bandages
Poems by Deborah Bayer
AWA Workshops
The supportive approach of the AWA method lends itself to healing from all kinds of trauma, including the trauma of medical training.
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Blog Archive
H is for Healing
Long Term Benefits How has writing a memoir helped me heal? First, I've been able to turn my former self into a protagonist in a story, a flawed but hopefully likable character. I can empathize with her. I can slap my forehead and say Doh! Why is she doing...
G is for Get Ready
Congratulations! You found some writing time in your busy day. How do you move into writing mode? How do you call in the muse? Some of the things I’ve written about in the A-to-Z posts help. A writing group (as in AWA) can give you Accountability. If you put...
F is for Freewrite
Once, I did a freewrite at my local library, filling three pages in my notebook. Most of what I wrote I threw away, but at the bottom of the third page, I wrote about a white noise machine in my clinic. I recognized a spark there, some kind of juice that I...