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Barbara Reul

Barbara Reul

PhD

Luther College, University of Regina

Barbara Reul, PhD, is a cancer survivor from the Canadian prairies. Her busy life as a university professor was disrupted by the pandemic and a critical illness. She chronicles both in a memoir that was published open access in December 2021; a sequel is in the works.

Published Articles

Reflection

“Miracles are no longer required”—Life Writing as a Healing Tool

Barbara Reul

No. 57 · Spring 2023

A music historian and cancer survivor chronicles how a uterine cancer diagnosis in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted her vocation as a university professor, and how writing two open-access memoirs became an unexpected tool for healing body, mind, and soul.

Barbara Reul

Published Articles

“Miracles are no longer required”—Life Writing as a Healing Tool