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
#AtoZChallenge: L is for Little Gidding
“Little Gidding” is the name of the 4th poem in T.S. Eliot’s book, Four Quartets. It’s an important steppingstone in my transformation for three reasons. It was one of the poems recited at the professional training I attended for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction....
#AtoZChallenge: K is for Kairos
Soon after I started meditating daily, I decided to stop wearing a wristwatch. I began to observe that wearing a watch was adding to my sense of time stress. I was focusing on what was next rather than on what I was doing in the moment. After I made my decision to...
#AtoZChallenge: J is for Joy
One of my fellow A-to-Z bloggers, Jenny Writes, is using Joy as her theme for the whole month of April. For me, it’s a touchstone in my transformation. When I was at my lowest point, not knowing which way to turn, there was a compass needle inside me that always...