Praise for Words From the Café 

 As both a writer of poems and a psychiatrist practicing psychotherapy, I believe I’m a student of human nature. In this area of study, all experience is my university. And in reading the collection of offerings called Words From the Café, I find myself in an accelerated curriculum. Time in these pages is time for renewed wonder, especially about what we humans can do with a little reliable welcome into a space for safe narrative expression. I’m discovering what I thought I knew but with a sense of fresh revelation. The resilience in view through these poems, essays, and photographic portraits is innocent, timeless, beautiful, charming, and incredibly assuring. I’m learning, through Words From the Café, that what it takes to bring forth such insightful, forgiving, and hopeful formulations of serious life struggle is an essentially safe space—a space like The Recovery Café’s Safe Place Writing Circle. 

                                                        —Jed Myers, author of The Marriage of Space and Time