Writing Spans A Continuum of Consciousness
Communion, the ability to express as your authentic self in person or in writing, happens in three languages: the nonverbal language of touch, the mind's visual language of imagination and the body's felt response to reality as a feedback loop that informs insight.
For more than thirty years I've worked with all three to help people recover mobility from the creativity that is innate, rather than from rote exercises: writers beset by the ache of long hours of sitting, and anyone ready to stop overriding their pain, their most profound desire and the highest expression of themselves.
“Tap into the intelligence of your own body. Stop pushing past it,
respect it, and it will reward you beyond measure.”
Communion, the ability to express as your authentic self in person or in writing, happens in three languages: the nonverbal language of touch, the mind's visual language of imagination and the body's felt response to reality as a feedback loop that informs insight.
For more than thirty years I've worked with all three to help people recover mobility from the creativity that is innate, rather than from rote exercises: writers beset by the ache of long hours of sitting, and anyone ready to stop overriding their pain, their most profound desire and the highest expression of themselves.
“Tap into the intelligence of your own body. Stop pushing past it,
respect it, and it will reward you beyond measure.”
Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP, LMT, MFA
Experiences & Revelations born of Personal History
Shaped My Life As A Writer
The est Training
The est Training "The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life." ~Werner Erhard
12 Step Immersion
A lifetime of group self-help and self-inquiry in the rooms of 12 Step programs that require a lifestyle change which puts conscious contact before ego-driven needs.
A Course in Miracles
Two years of daily in-depth spiritual practice with A Course In Miracles (ACIM), a self-study program to awaken consciousness of whether we are either coming from fear or love.
Dahan Institute of Massage Studies
Fell in love with deep tissue, myofascial release and became an anatomy nerd while certifying to provide income to put myself through college. Let the beautiful non-verbal communication of touch begin!
Undergraduate Degree
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
BA in French Language and Literature. The love of on French arose out of pushing against being required to learn German when we moved from the States to Switzerland while I was growing up. A first encounter with the philosophical through literature: Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, Flaubert, Baudelaire...
BA in French Language and Literature. The love of on French arose out of pushing against being required to learn German when we moved from the States to Switzerland while I was growing up. A first encounter with the philosophical through literature: Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, Flaubert, Baudelaire...
Equissage Training with Mary Schreiber
One of the first available programs in massage for sports horses, as Mary says, "Horses have such huge hearts and huge energy fields. When you are massaging a horse, you feel that personally." Another profound experience of the power and importance of non-verbal communication.
The Landmark Forum
The Landmark Forum designed to spark positive, permanent shifts in the quality of your life by way of looking more deeply at relationships and the difference you make.
Equine Myofascial Release Course
Equine MFR was developed by the son of John Barnes, Dr. Mark Barnes, DPT. Learning to wait and sense the release of trauma in the fascia is a Zen experience, like doing Qigong with a horse. Sometimes it's a matter of rebalancing one-sided fitness training to augment alignment and overall wellness.
Massageworks for Horse & Rider
This, my first business, allowed me the privilege of working with hundreds of horse and rider teams was one of the greatest unexpected gifts of beginning to live by choice, not by chance. I was able to design a lifestyle that kept me fit to ride my own horses and kept me healthy and required me to stay up-to-date on natural pathways to health.
Advanced Lanmark Training
Designed to facilitate the creation of a future of your own design, not limited by the past. Graduation day: the day of the first bifurcation from the old world - September 11, 2001 - Reality Shifting Experience.
Santa Barbara Feldenkrais® Training
Four year training program accredited by the North American Training and Accreditation Board (NATAB) and approved by the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America. (FGNA) to teach Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons professionally. An amplification of sensory experience, augmenting the intelligence of the nervous system to evoke learning at many levels through somatic self-inquiry for improved lived experience.
Pan-European MFA in Creative Writing
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA. Emphasis Fiction, August 2015.
Creative Thesis: Historical Novel, “The Witches of East Lothian.” Post-protestant Reformation Scotland (1590): scapegoats, freedom, monarchy, division between science and objective realty. Critical Thesis: “A Creative Writing Pedagogy Based On Critical Thinking and Resilience.”
Creative Thesis: Historical Novel, “The Witches of East Lothian.” Post-protestant Reformation Scotland (1590): scapegoats, freedom, monarchy, division between science and objective realty. Critical Thesis: “A Creative Writing Pedagogy Based On Critical Thinking and Resilience.”
Graduate Level Certification in Teaching Writing, Composition and Rhetoric
University of Minnesota, Mankato, MN. July 2017. A gradual unfolding of appreciation for the life of the mind, critical thinking, how teaching informs writing..and how writing informs teaching. A profound dive in the pleasure of deep reading over the canon of major literary works from 18th & 19th C Writers.
Advanced Training with Jeff Haller
Two further years refining the Feldenkrais Method, Seattle, WA. 2017-2019
Shut Up & Write Host
2019 to present: a free weekly writers group, in person at Rebel Heart Books, Jacksonville, OR, then on Zoom since 2020.
Specializing in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
Years spent in private practice while simultaneously working with Jacksonville Chiropractic, Complete Care Chiropractic and Jackson County Physical Therapy in the Rogue Valley, Oregon, between 2020 and 2026 to support injured patients and those recovering from surgery to rehabilitate their muscles and regain normal mobility
Creator of Somatic Intelligence - Amplified
Now is not too late, if the work you love has begun to cost you more discomfort than you can bear. However, if you wait long enough, the pain will decide how long you get to write. It doesn't have to. This is where my two lives, the hands-on work and the writing life, finally meet. I help you give your body the change it craves, so you can work in flow.
Now There's A Free Support System for Writers: Join Me Online for Writing in Community Every Week:
Write With Us!
Shut Up & Write FacilitatorFree Group of Peers to Keep You Accountable: If you want to write, you have to show up for yourself.
This group is a perfect way to "get your butt in the chair & write" every week without fail!
Mondays, 8:30-10:15am Pacific Time
Register to get the link!
Gabrielle Pullen, MFA
Instructor, Writer, Facilitator
WRITING
The page is a practice, too.
The Novel
The Witches of East Lothian: three women unwittingly entangled in the 1590 North Berwick witch trials. In progress.
Journalism
More than ten years as a freelance writer for national publications, including The Horse, Anvil Magazine and Iron Works.
Teaching & Editing
Facilitator for an iRest Meditation & Writing Women's Group (Gather the Women) resulting in The Write to Heal Abuse Anthology: Getting Free - and editor of the collection of gems curated from that year-long monthly circle. Each story, poem, memoir or creative non-fiction piece putting that moment of insight when each woman knew, absolutely, it was time to leave, to change her identity and stop living with abuse.Writing workshops and private writing feedback, grounded in a pedagogy of critical thinking and resilience. Three years of tutoring students to ace the SAT and ACT exams.
The Witches of East Lothian: three women unwittingly entangled in the 1590 North Berwick witch trials. In progress.
Journalism
More than ten years as a freelance writer for national publications, including The Horse, Anvil Magazine and Iron Works.
Teaching & Editing
Facilitator for an iRest Meditation & Writing Women's Group (Gather the Women) resulting in The Write to Heal Abuse Anthology: Getting Free - and editor of the collection of gems curated from that year-long monthly circle. Each story, poem, memoir or creative non-fiction piece putting that moment of insight when each woman knew, absolutely, it was time to leave, to change her identity and stop living with abuse.Writing workshops and private writing feedback, grounded in a pedagogy of critical thinking and resilience. Three years of tutoring students to ace the SAT and ACT exams.
Your Life Matters
Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP, LMT, MFA
P.O. Box 1173, Jacksonville, OR 97530
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Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP, LMT, MFA
P.O. Box 1173, Jacksonville, OR 97530
admin@theresiliencezone.com
theresiliencezone.com
Facebook · Instagram · X / Twitter
©2026 Gabrielle Pullen · Your Life Matters, Inc. · Insight Journaling™ is a trademark of Your Life Matters, Inc. · Feldenkrais®, Awareness Through Movement® and related terms are service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
