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: I is for Introversion
In 1983, when I was 29 years old, I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychological test of preferences based on Carl Jung’s theories. The test was administered to a group of retreat participants from my church. I found out I was an introvert. Suddenly, a...
#AtoZChallenge: H is for Happiness
Happiness is like light in that it has wave/particle duality. It comes both as a flow of energy and in discrete foil-wrapped packets of dark chocolate. It is both an outcome and a process. Happiness can be pursued, but it often arises unbidden, when my focus is not on...
#AtoZChallenge: G is for Grief
There is so much grief in the world now. It’s our milieu, like air in our lungs or water in the gills of the fish. Here is a stanza from Jane Kenyon’s poem “Let Evening Come.” To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come....