Lucy Daniels
Lucy Daniels is a writer and clinical psychologist who uses the lessons learned in her personal victory over anorexia nervosa and writer’s block to assist others. Her novels include the best-seller and Guggenheim fellowship winner, Caleb My Son (1956), High on a Hill (1961), and Eyes of the Father (2005). A memoir, With a Woman’s Voice: A Writer’s Struggle for Emotional Freedom (2002) and Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom (2005) chronicle her empowerment. Walking with Moonshine is Dr. Daniels’ latest book, a book of stories written across her life. Other short stories appear in various publications including Pembroke Magazine, Westview, and North Carolina Literary Review. Dr. Daniels is the founder of the Lucy Daniels Foundation (LDF) and the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood located in Cary, North Carolina. In addition to her private practice, for the last twenty years she has conducted for the LDF a seminar entitled “Our Problems as the Roots of Our Power” for individuals in pursuit of creative freedom. Dr. Daniels has four children and eight grandchildren.
Ten Things I Can’t Do Without
- Dachshunds
- Writing
- Knitting
- Family
- Clinical work
- Books
- Country music
- Friends
- Exercise
- Salad
Dear Lucy,
Thank you for checking on Sue Etheridge when I wasn’t able to reach her and was concerned about her. I did reach her, and we had a long conversation. I am writing a book and want to tell the story of her work as the art therapist at the federal prison hospital in Butner. My book is “Theological Education in a New Key: Narrative, Belonging, Diversity.” The title is from “Philosophy in a New Key” by Susanne Langer (1942). Langer makes the case that philosophy is not paying attention to experience that can’t be put into words, the ineffable. In Sue Etheridge’s work to facilitate patients creating art, she is dealing with the ineffable. Langer calls it presentational symbolism. I know you are a writer, and I thought I should let you know about what I’m doing and why I want to get Sue’s story. Thank you again for reaching out to her and then letting me know.
My best,
Dick Hester