'I Am NOT A Juvenile Delinquent' With Author Sharon Charde

Naugatuck CT

06 January, 2021

1:08 PM

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HEALING THROUGH POETRY'I Am NOT A Juvenile Delinquent' with author Sharon ChardeLive Zoom Event on Thursday, January 7, 2021 Click here at 7 PM on 1/7 to join the event! Hosted by Oliver Wolcott Library, author Sharon L. Charde will share her journey of personal healing and service to others at this Zoom event on 1/7. Chardes book, I Am NOT A Juvenile Delinquent: How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women (2020) is a compelling, appealing, poignant and often hilarious account of that journey. The loss of a child and the subsequent quest for coping strategies is hardly a new story. For psychotherapist, teacher, and writer Sharon Charde, a decade of volunteering as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for "delinquent" girls helped her let go of much of her grief following the loss of her son, or at least learn how to carry it differently. The book chronicles the passion that grew in Sharon for pushing voices out into the world. As she and the girls shared their losses through weekly writing, they came to realize their unlimited potential and poetic talents.