Jacky Power

Jacky Power MSc is a therapeutic poet, addiction specialist and EFT practitioner on a mission to rehumanise us - one poem at a time. We all have our human tricky things. Through poetry, therapeutic practice and creative expression, Jacky helps people move through three shifts: A linguistic shift: from "it's bad for my mental health" to understanding feelings as signposts for what you need. A poetic shift: from poetry as something gate kept by academia to everyday human technology we can all use to understand ourselves and each other. A spiritual shift: from looking outward for the fix to finding, through witnessing and reflection, the one thing we all share: our humanity. Her Insight Timer recordings span two collections: Permission to Feel - poetry and practices for navigating the beautiful chaos of being human - and Feeling Freedom, for those loving someone with addiction. Author of a published poetry collection and a performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jacky's work has been recognised across the creative and therapeutic worlds. Her former podcast The Therapeutic Poet was shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards. She now hosts Words in the Wilderness. Jacky believes poetry is not the stuffy thing we were force-fed at school, but storytelling with a heartbeat — and that when we finally give ourselves permission to feel, we find not weakness, but wisdom.

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