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Saturday September 7 2024

Online: Zoom Meeting

Time: 3:00pm ET Length: 1 hr 30 mins

Workshop: 7 Psych Tricks for Writer’s Block

With Farzana Doctor

Farzana Doctor brings a unique perspective to the page as both an author and psychotherapist. Join her for this practical workshop on how to incorporate emotions-based strategies to improve your writing and deal with writer’s block. These include working with your nervous system, befriending your inner critic, reconnecting with your purpose, and more. There will be optional experiential exercises and ample time for Q&A.

$50 (save 10% if you buy more than one)


Suitable for:

Open to all.

What to prepare:

No advance preparation is required.



Farzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author, activist and psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels, a poetry collection, and articles and book chapters about psychotherapy. In 2023, Farzana received the prestigious Freedom To Read Award. Her book on self and community care for helpers and activists, 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life, was released in March. Look out for her new YA novel, The Beauty of Us, in September. Learn more at Linktr.ee/farzanadoctor.


52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life for Caregivers, Activists and Helping Professionals: A Workbook of Emotional Hacks, Self-Care Experiments and Other Good Ideas
By Farzana Doctor
Published by Douglas & McIntyre

A practical guide to self-care and community care, written for helpers—the caregivers, activists, community leaders, mental health and medical professionals who are the first to help others, but the last to seek help themselves.

As an activist, community organizer and social worker, Farzana Doctor has preached self-care to hundreds of people struggling with burnout and exhaustion. But for years she couldn’t manage to take her own advice.

Many other helpers she knew were the same: they knew the signs of burnout, and they understood the science of self-care. Maybe they’d taken workshops on vicarious trauma; maybe they’d even taught them. But still they struggled to escape the cycle of overwork, overwhelm and recovery. 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life is a workbook that speaks directly to these people—and anyone who struggles to pause, set boundaries and centre their own needs.

The workbook contains fifty-two lessons, one for each week of the year. Each week, readers will find a simple new idea and an experiment for trying it out, with deeper dives into the material provided, but every level of participation celebrated. Throughout, Doctor embraces both community care and self-care at the same time, showing readers the overlap between the two.

Beautifully written, direct and insightful, this workbook is a gentle and practical guide to a more balanced life, written for those who need it most.

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