By L.M. Browning
To Lose the Madness
Field Notes on Trauma, Loss, and Radical Authenticity
As featured in the TEDx Talk, “Writing on Life”
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After the publication of her short memoir, To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity, Leslie was invited to attend the TEDx Conference at Yale University in 2018 where she gave a talk on the philosophy of Radical Authenticity and the process of transcendence trauma. After the TED Talk, Leslie went on to found the Radical Authenticity Community The organization is a community of storytellers who, by sharing our own journey through the practice of Radical Authenticity, help to “normalize” mental illness and help dispel the stigma surrounding it. Watch Leslie’s TED Talk, “Writing On Life” below.
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“L.M. Browning’s powerful poetry embodies the archetypal spiritual journey of our times.” —Drew Dellinger, author of Love Letter to the Milky Way
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What seems like a million years ago now, I was a DJ. It was one of my first jobs when I was a teenager. Music is a passion I never left behind. I am routinely asked to make mixes for friends. Before I set out on the road To Lose the Madness, some readers as me what my...
Mustang | A Poem
Ride this life hard
—barebacked, bone-shaken.
Drive Through the Night | A Poem
we might outrun the sun
and not see the sight awaiting
in the bare daylight
The Technicolor Burning Bush | A Poem
I hear the voice of god in the hum of the neon sign at the rest stop, where the caravan of displaced desperadoes and expats post-up for the bottomless cup of coffee….
Future Primitive | Radical Authenticity
In this week’s episode Leslie M. Browning speaks with Joanna about: learning to move forward with traumatic experiences; healing is a journey; making meaning out of the loss; connected in vulnerability; the healing magic and beauty of the American Southwest; the solace and nurturance of the “wild silence”…
Lobo | A Poem
Be gentle long night, I don’t belong here. Thrown to the wolves, I shifted nocturnal.
The Recurring Dream | A Poem
In a land beyond the pervading dark,
in a state beyond the fever-pitch…
Unspoken | A Poem
Out beyond the murkiness left by anger-tinted arguments, remember what you know in your heart and bring that truth close.
The Road from Santa Fe to Cimarron | A Poem
Red dust, sanguine from Sangre bleeding into the snowy roads that lead to the hidden mountain …
Benzos, Bardo, and Brokenness | A Poem
They say poetry must tell us something of life and the wider-world, else it is confessional blather beyond use, but what if I want it to be only for me—in all its obscurity?
The Lost Horizon | A Poem
Souls age in thousand-fold nights, wandering across internal landscapes to desert’s edge.
Nerve-Shaken | A Poem
What are we to do, we who require silence in a world of deafening din? The far-lung corners being as far as they are, where shall we carry ourselves?
Upcoming Events
april 5-6, 2019
IBPA Publishing University • Chicago, IL
For nearly three decades, IBPA Publishing University has been the indie publishing community’s must-attend networking and educational event. As a Board Member of the IBPA, Leslie will host several offerings over the conference.
May 29 – 31, 2019
BookExpo • Javits Center, New York, NY
Join us at the publishing industry’s leading trade event, where Booksellers, Librarians, and Publishers gather to discover the latest titles and authors. Leslie will be in attendance representing Homebound Publications and its divisions.
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