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: E & F Are for Everyday Forgiveness
E is for Everyday Everyday, humdrum, quotidian. It’s where the story starts. It’s the ordinary world before Rumpelstiltskin comes along with his call to adventure. Most stories don’t spend very much time at this stage of the story; it’s just the jumping-off point. The...
#AtoZChallenge: D is for Desire
When I was flailing, floundering in a toxic work environment, I didn’t know how to get out. My inner peacemaker was at war with my need to stand up for myself. I found my way out in a graceful way that honored harmony and let me survive. I followed my curiosity to an...
#AtoZChallenge: C is for Cancer
About six months after I finished all of my cancer treatments, I was finally able to write a poem about it. I was at a writers' conference, and I was given a prompt to write a poem that had a car in it. This is what came out. Pucker (originally published...