Writing Sense
in the Media
Conversations, features, and appearances exploring creative writing, wellbeing, and the power of personal narrative.
Short Features and Clips
A collection of Shorts and excerpts from Lucy's recent interview with Chris Braitch in which they explore women’s experiences of boarding school and the healing potential of creative practice.
Resistance is Agency
What if resistance is less a problem and more a sign that another way is possible?
Boarding School Syndrome
Why understanding Boarding School experience matters in therapeutic practice.
Culture of Patriarchy
Being a girl in a culture of patriarchy.
Work With Me in the Media
Lucy Windridge-Floris is a writer, educator, and practitioner specialising in creative writing for wellbeing, narrative practice, bibliotherapy, and boarding school experience.
Through interviews, podcasts, articles, and public conversations, she explores how writing can support reflection, meaning making, healing, personal development, and social change.
I'm available for podcast interviews, panel discussions, and media features on creative writing, wellbeing, and the emotional legacy of boarding school experience.
Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP) is an established approach that uses writing, reading, imagination, metaphor, poetry, and storytelling to support reflection, self awareness, and meaning making. Unlike traditional creative writing courses, the focus is not on literary achievement or publication, but on the process of exploring experience through creative expression.
CWTP invites participants to engage with writing as a way of listening more closely to themselves, developing insight, and discovering new perspectives. It can help people explore identity, relationships, life transitions, grief, belonging, resilience, and personal growth.
At Writing Sense, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes is informed by narrative practice, bibliotherapy, literature, and dramatherapy. Writing is always optional, choice led, and approached with care, curiosity, and respect for individual experience.
Creative writing can be a powerful tool for reflection, understanding, and personal development. Many people find that writing helps them organise thoughts, express feelings, recognise patterns, and develop new ways of understanding their experiences.
Writing can create distance from difficult experiences while also allowing meaningful engagement with them. Through story, poetry, image, metaphor, and imagination, people often discover language for experiences that previously felt difficult to express or understand.
Creative writing is not a replacement for therapy, counselling, or clinical support. However, it can complement other forms of support and provide a valuable way of exploring identity, memory, relationships, and personal meaning.
Research increasingly demonstrates the benefits of reflective and expressive writing for wellbeing, resilience, emotional processing, and self understanding.
Boarding School Syndrome is a term used to describe the long term emotional, relational, and psychological impact that can result from being separated from home and family during childhood and adolescence.
While experiences vary widely, many former boarders describe patterns such as emotional self reliance, difficulty asking for support, perfectionism, challenges with intimacy, a strong drive to achieve, feelings of disconnection, or uncertainty around identity and belonging.
For some individuals, these patterns can continue into adulthood and influence relationships, parenting, work, leadership, and emotional wellbeing.
Growing awareness of Boarding School Syndrome has led to increasing research, clinical discussion, and public conversation about how early institutional experiences may shape people's lives long after they leave school.
Bibliotherapy is the practice of using literature, poetry, stories, and reading as a way of supporting reflection, learning, emotional insight, and personal growth.
Reading can help people feel less alone in their experiences, encounter new perspectives, and find language for thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to express. Literature often allows us to think about ourselves indirectly through characters, stories, and ideas.
At Writing Sense, poetry, fiction, memoir, and short literary texts are often used alongside creative writing invitations to support meaning making, curiosity, and deeper understanding.
Lucy Windridge-Floris is a writer, educator, facilitator, and researcher specialising in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, narrative practice, bibliotherapy, and boarding school experience.
With more than thirty years of experience across education, healthcare, therapeutic practice, and higher education, she has worked extensively with individuals and groups exploring identity, belonging, voice, wellbeing, and personal development through writing.
Lucy holds advanced qualifications in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, English Literature, Creative Writing, and Dramatherapy. Her work combines intellectual rigour, creative practice, ethical care, and a deep belief in the power of stories to support personal, social, and cultural transformation.
Through Writing Sense, she offers courses, workshops, mentoring, and professional training that help people engage with writing as a tool for reflection, meaning making, healing, and change.