Meet Lisa Marie & Hiraethlon

Welcome! My name is Lisa Marie Brodsky Auter. I am a poetry therapy practitioner, intuitive singer, community grief tender and writing facilitator. I offer various experiences for richly layered homecomings of all kinds.

Intrinsically connected to my “About Me” bio is the very definition of Hiraethlon. As you learn more about Hiraethlon, the values and mission, you get to know me.

Humanizing emotional experiences that have historically been marginalized, shamed, pathologized, and deemed negative or ill.

Whether you call me an empath, Highly Sensitive Person, or a good listener, I have spent a lifetime seeking answers to “why am I like this?” My empathic, sensitive, and anxious/depressed nature became a liability, a casualty and weapon used against me in various ways.

Psychology has been my second language since I was a child. I always wanted someone to explain to me the inner workings of my complicated heart. Unfortunately, no one told me that I had my own answers.

I want to tell you that you have your own answers. But it can’t be done in a silo.

Belonging needs to be done individually and in connection to others.

But what happens when the external world feels threatening and unsafe? What happens when your internal world feels threatening and unsafe? How do you get back to center? How do you call yourself home?

These tender and fierce questions of belonging make the scaffolding of Hiraethlon, my life’s work. I am far from done. I will never stop learning and will share any lessons, insights, mistakes, stumblings I think might help others normalize this human condition as messy, beautiful, and complex. We are just human beings…co-existing within the paradox of life…

finding our way home.

Welcome.

Certifications

Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from UW-Madison (2005)

Poetry Therapy Practitioner from the International Academy of Poetry Therapy

Wisconsin State Peer Support certification

Alternatives to Suicide facilitator from The Wildflower Alliance

Lineages

Familial/Ancestral Lineage: Ukrainian, Norwegian, Jewish Ashkenazi 
Intuitive Lineage: Irish, Welsh, British, Scottish

Grief Lineages: ahlay blakely, Francis Weller, Megan Devine, Mara June, Gendersauce, Shandra Bauer, Holly Truhlar

Identities/Movements: Psychiatric survivor, Ex-patient, Harm Reductionist + Humanizing Perspectives of Self-Injury and Suicide

Hiraethlon
Creativity + Wellness

  • As a certified Poetry Therapy Practitioner, I collaborate with others individually and in groups to incorporate creative writing, poetry, journaling, and other creative pursuits as a way of making meaning out of this world.

  • Description text goes hereAt Hiraethlon, we normalize and expand conversations about grief, loss, and change so it includes sacred remembrance and brave expressions of emotion. Rather than "move on" from our losses, we learn the power and personal evolution inherently found in compassionate co-existing with Grief as another of humanity's arts.

  • Co-creating a space of reverence and intention - a landscape where your journey is acknowledged, honored, and celebrated. More than moments, these rituals will be landmarks etched into your being, reminding you of your capacity for growth and renewal. Rooted in compassion and deep listening, we create space for both the ache of letting go and the tender hope of what lies ahead. 

  • I believe that mental health is not something to be “fixed,” but something to be understood, nurtured, and integrated. Drawing from the psychiatric survivor (ex-patient) movement, I re-imagine the way we talk about mental health—shifting from a model of pathology to one of possibility. We honor each individual as the teller of their own story. As a professional peer support specialist and poetry therapy practitioner, I offer this Emotional Narrative Reframing as sacred work in order to reclaim our own agency and wisdom, thereby reframing the stories we’ve been told about our minds, our bodies, and our souls.