This week I am on a last minute vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. I’m focusing on the clients on my calendar today, and working on my book as much as I can so it can get to the presses ASAP.

 

I want to speak today about expansion and contraction in the creative process. It’s something I have thought a lot about in a number of contexts thanks to some muses including Sarah Michael and Cortney Budney. (I like to give credit where it is due, because it’s an interesting topic and a lot of conversation around it recently).

 

 

Sarah, creator of Project: You, has reminded me so many times of how when we are very visible we often have a “backlash” or contraction after a lot of people see up. Downtime for contracting and hiding from sight is something she recommends business owners should schedule in especially around a big launch so they don’t feel like an emotional wreck.

 

Recently, this happened to me because I did the Sacred Writing Challenge with a public video every day. I was also very available in the private facebook group for a lot of conversation around the ideas of guilt around what you really really want, and it was very touching, very vulnerable and very powerful for me. So I needed to rest after all of that visibility in my marketing!

 

The truth is during that time I was expanding my marketing presence for the Challenge as well as my paid long term Writing Circle (see info here), but I was contracting in another area. I have also been using that marketing push as an excuse to hide the fact that I am rapidly approaching the end of working on my book Freedom: From Doormat to Dominance and Beyond. And I wasn’t yet ready to really talk that much about it. It’s an incredibly honest and powerful book, in my opinion, and the process has been very revealing to me about my own shadow, judgements around letting myself be powerful, sexuality and more. So it’s a big deal for me and brings up a lot of stuff to come out about in a bigger way, so I just hid it for the time being.

 

I am excited to be moving closer, but around my birthday August 8th I felt totally immobilized, paralyzed to do any real mentioning of the work to be published soon. I even made a pre-publication sign up form in case anyone wants to go ahead and buy a copy ahead of time (here) but I didn’t post it on my blog or email it or anything.

 

So at her conference, I mentioned it to Cortney Budney, who is a friend of mine and talented coach. She suggested that I just give into the urge to hide it, and to be with myself through that hiding process to work out what I needed to work out.

 

Well I don’t know if I am done “working out” the whole hiding thing around it, but I at least feel comfortable enough mentioning it now.

 

Now I am taking this vacation to recover from the marketing, and the business work, as well as other stuff in my life. I am now sort of hiding from my job and regular life by being on vacation (lol), meanwhile I am working on my book daily and making great strides with the some inner work around it. So once again I am contracting one thing, and expanding another.

 

Something I have realized from this and also is that we can be contracting and expanding in different areas of our life all together. As creatives this can help us to direct energy to make faster progress across the board in a way you may not expect.

 

While we may be contracting in one area of our lives/careers, we can be contracting or hiding in another place. In a way this is totally useful and handy!

 

It means that we can focus our energy more on one thing that is ripe for growth, while another is cooling or in preparation stage.

 

If you’ve ever done research before a long writing session, then you know that the research is a phase where you may not be writing much down on paper for your final essay, but it is where you are reading, and sort of thinking, piecing together valuable information for the final work although it might be up in the air for a long time. I think of the project as existing in a sortof nebulous cloud above my head, and not yet taking on a shape.

 

In the end that preparation or research time was incredible valuable. When I go to do the paper often it just pours out because I did all this thinking before, and I can add in thoughts that occurred to me as I was driving, or showering, in addition to relaying words I read already. One time I wrote a ten page paper in four hours this way. From the outside when you get back to work on something you researched or let cool, it just looks like you did the paper all at once, but you were thinking about it a long time before.

 

When you let one part of your life, your business, your creativity cool, and put your focus on another aspect, you allow yourself to conserve energy from pushing before it’s going to be productive to do so. You may be piecing things together in another way, a more enjoyable, natural and organic way.

 

It doesn’t mean you have to completely put that project to cool off your radar and procrastinate–it’s just that I firmly believe sometimes the energy is just not there yet. You either need to rest or contract on that phase, or you need to work with someone like me to figure out what is going on. Set a reminder and come back in a week or two.

 

Talking to people about their career and creative progress over the last week in my free Creative Soul sessions has been really valuable for me. I love connecting to the energy and feeling the difference when people gain clarity with me through our conversation.

 

People find it helpful when I ask questions to draw out what they are working on, the challenges and reflect to them where I really see the energy is right now. If I have some resource or service to offer as well, I totally will, although I am very honest when I see– the energy is not there yet for Goal A! You need to rest or contact in this area for Goal B. Focus on this other thing, and put the rest on the shelf. I will remind you in a few weeks so you can assess if you want to move forward on your goal A yet, but if it’s not there it’s just going to feel bad.

 

You may be surprised what happens when you stop trying to do it ALL at once, and instead think of things in terms of what areas are you contracting, and what areas are you expanding and what feels right for you at this time. Then you can do a number of things in their own time.

 

If you want to make faster progress and know what to do next, give me a shout by going to the page here.

 

We can set up a free Creative Soul Session to see clearly what you are working on, what the challenges are and if it is time to prioritize on expanding/contracting certain things so you can make faster progress. If you are ready to move forward on one of your writing, creative or business goals, I can offer free resources to help, and even working with me if that is a fit for you to make the fastest progress.

 

I am sending you all love, this felt important to share, have a great week!

 

Blessings

Sofia Wren

 

PS Apply here if you want to know what to do next to make faster progress.

We can talk about all the things you want to accomplish and where you might be putting too much on your plate. What’s the priority? What do you really need to focus on to make the fastest progress? I can help you figure out what to do next with a complimentary conversation, just fill the form here to see if we can talk.

Want to know what to do next in a way that really fits you?

What if you could hear your intuition THAT clearly?

Want to write more for pleasure or your profession?

 

Everything you need to make writing a daily habit this fall and thus know exactly what to do next because you can hear your intuition and trust it.

 

In a supportive group of other writers as part of the Sacred Writing Circle with Sofia Wren, you will:

 

• Easily figure out what you need to do next because you let your intuition guide you.
• Make real progress on your writing and creations, so your work is out in the world and helping people.
• Start focusing on how many people you can help and stop worry about what other people think.
• Know what to do each month because you’ve received a group tarot reading.
• Say yes to what is a priority for you since you’re THAT clear on what really matters right now.

 

 

Includes:

*Daily Inspirational Writing Prompts delivered by facebook and email

*Have fun sharing your process and answers in a private facebook community that will support you in your writing

*Monthly live interactive reflection workshops where you can share your face, voice and writing.

*Private, recorded and only available to participants in the class.

*Opportunities to email your questions or ask them live.

*Monthly tarot reading and energy work MP3

*Recorded so you can listen again and again.

*Bonus package of 10 healing recordings

*Bonus course on Intention to navigate the intensity of the upcoming eclipse season

 

 

How It Works:

Each day I will post and email a prompt or question for you to answer in your own words on paper and post an update or excerpt of your work.

These questions are amazing and sacred –- sure help you heal deeply and with a sense of peace as you connect to that wisdom inside of you. You will answer you on the page.

You will also be part of our Sacred Writing Circle Online Forum on Facebook, where you may share, access the prompts, ask questions, and connect with me and each other throughout your journey.

 

Ready to sign up?

There are two options:

$97 Dollars One Time Payment In Full for September, October, November and December

OR 

$30 Dollars a Month for 4 Months of September, October, November and December

 

You will always know what to do and write next!

Any questions, feel free to let me know! ☺

Program starts September 1st 2016

After purchasing, please await email notification  with the access details.

Email Sofia@sofiawren.com  for questions or concerns

Join me and a group of loving writers for this FREE challenge:

+ Release guilt so you can achieve what you really want to do.

+ Easily figure out what you need to do because you let your intuition guide you.

+ Make real progress on your writing and creations, so you and your work is out there in the world helping people.

+ Start focusing on how many people you can help and stop worry about what other people think.

Click here to get more instructions on how to play

The next Sacred Writing Challenge begins Saturday August 20, 2016. It’s a MINI Challenge running just 8 days.

Since I’ve become a spiritual guide for other writers and entrepreneurs with a message, people ask me all the time how they can become more intuitive, i.e. always know what to do next to make everything easier and clearer in their own lives.

Writing is the absolute first tool I ever used to improve my intuition! It changed my life, so it has a special place in my heart.

Asking how to improve your own intuition (sense of knowing what to do next) is a great question that will prove to pay off in many ways through your life. Writing helps me connect to my Higher Self–the place inside of me where my greatest wisdom resides.

I know writing has helped me to come out of hiding, speak up more, know what to do in my career as well as my life. Now that I write daily I feel more in touch with what is really important so I can take better care of everything.

I strongly believe that everyone, including you, is already intuitive at some level. You just need to keep tuning in and learn how to trust it. Helping people learn how to do this is my passion, because knowing yourself that well is true empowerment. Writing is the best way to get you starting doing just that.

And Writing is such a simple and inexpensive thing to do.

For $5 you can get a bag of pens and a cute notebook.

Even if you write as much as me, which is about 5-6 pages a day now, that could last you a month or more. Since summer of 2009 when I read The Artist’s Way, I’ve been faithfully writing 3 pages a day and beyond.

The idea of daily writing may seem daunting, so to get you started with daily writing, and all of it’s many benefits I am holding 8 day Sacred Writing Challenge beginning on August 20th through 27th. 

This round we will also be focusing on the process of releasing guilt around what you are really wanting.

That way it will be even easier to allow and trust yourself to go after your dreams.

 

How it works:

Each day you get a new prompt or question for you to answer in your own words on paper. If you really can’t get into writing, feel free to dance it, walk it, make art around it, or simply muse on it.

Then come to our private facebook group and post an update about how the process was for you that day. You can even share an excerpt of your work. It is a safe space.

Every time you post in the group you win points towards prizes. When you share with people on your public profile, you can win a prize, too!

You will also get a supportive and loving community around you to witness the process of writing and listening to your inner most wisdom. We always congratulate you for writing anything, it’s not about judging whether it is bad or good, or whether you are good enough as a writer.

The questions that you will receive are always amazing and sacred, created in sacred space to help you to create sacred writing. They are sure to bring you deep healing and a sense of peace as you connect to what to do next. You will find answers and healing on the page.

Here are some words from people who went through the challenge in previous rounds of the SWC:

 

By writing consistently every day, you will:

 

• Release guilt so you can achieve what you really want to do.
  
• Easily figure out what you need to do next because you let your intuition guide you.

• Make faster progress so you can get out there and help more people by being yourself.

• Start focusing on how many people you can help and stop worrying about what other people think.

 

 

Get the instructions here and join our FREE sacred writing challenge group if you’d like to join us to make faster progress and always know what to do next.

Blessings

Sofia Wren

PS I hope you join the challenge!!! Get started here.

Are you wondering what is in store for you for the rest of the year?

I’m excited to announce the official re-opening of the doors for my transformational Membership program, which will allow you to receive support to get clear on your next steps and make faster progress towards your goals every month.

~Know what to do each month because you’ve received a personal tarot reading
~Say yes to what is a priority for you since you’re THAT clear
~Attract opportunities that are a good fit for who you are

 

 

Dearest Sofia:

Before your monthly readings I had a lot of feelings of disconnection and lacked clarity as I processed grief. Your readings seem to intuitively respond to what I am processing emotionally. They bring me a sense of internal order and peace.

~Tanya Levy, Canada, facebook.com/heartladyinspiration

Here’s how it works:

Every month you get personal coaching audio file from me by email. This includes a 1 card individualized Tarot reading from me on a 15 minute audio file which I will email to you over 6 months. This personal audio also includes energy work tailored just for you and your situation. This recording allows me to use my gifts to help you move you through challenges coming up. The energy work will help to calm emotions that are getting in the way so you can use the information in the reading to make faster progress, reaching your goals and feeling the way you want to feel.

Feel clear on what to do next and feel empowered to take the next steps easily. You can download the file and listen again as you please. You will also receive one image from your Tarot card with each email reading.

Then, you will have access to a 45 minute bonus monthly recording created at the Full Moon every month, where you will all receive a general reading to know what to expect for that month. Based on the challenges that I predict for the month ahead (for example Mercury Retrograde), I then will give the group a special energy healing to help you to be successful, calm and balanced through the month so you can continue to make faster progress.

BONUS: Free Access to the Fall Sacred Writing Circle. (Learn how to always know what to do next because you can hear your intuition and TRUST it through a supportive writing community. More on what it’s like here)

Why am I doing this?

I love being of service and this allows me to help others to create a bigger transformation over a longer period of time, in a way that fits many people’s budgets. With my busy schedule I can only handle so many clients, but those who sign up for this membership first will be able to access my help to reach their goals  faster.

My followers on social media (instagram, twitter, facebook, etc) seem to love the Tarot card readings and healings that I post multiple times a week. This transformational membership is an option if you’d like to receive a reading and healing of your own each month. What a treat!

It’s my mission to serve as many people as deeply as possible with my gift, and this program allows me to help you regularly even as I go to graduate school and my schedule changes. (I am studying an M.A. in Spiritual Direction, learning how to help people even more deeply to process difficult emotions such as grief, and to make decisions that serve your soul’s truth.)

Since I created this membership, those who have signed up don’t seem to want to leave! So I know I am onto something.

Also I’ve been surprised how the monthly group recording helps ME with the ups and downs. Being sensitive I am very affected by things happening in the universe like Mercury Retrograde or other intense times, and I have LOVED how the monthly recordings help shift my feelings, help me navigate through the month so I can stay on track and feel good. I listen to the recordings all the time!

Sofia, I got so excited when I saw the email you sent me with my recording.
When you were speaking I started getting goosebumps. I wanted to relisten to the audio right away! It was the highlight of my week.

Before I heard the recording I was feeling pretty good, but afterwards I felt so happy! I’ve had readings from you before and at the time I told you it was the best Tarot reading I had ever gotten–some of the things you’ve said in the past really came true this year– but I think this recording was even better.

I’ve listened to it again and again many times and it makes me so happy to hear it. After four times I still had goosebumps when I heard your voice. Your words really touched a part of my spirit. There’s something different now about the recording, sometimes you paused and I don’t know how to describe it, it was like waves were carrying me away. Something about it really touched me, I loved it and I want one of these every month!
-Tu Vu, Philadelphia, PA

 

How much:
$55 a month charged automatically for 6 months.

In 2016 the membership will be capped at 10 people. Once these spots are filled the doors will close.

(Note that once you sign up, I guarantee your price will stay the same for 6 months, but the price for new members to sign up may go up at any time.)

 

Sign up here

 

What happens next?
After you sign up I will send you a welcome email giving you access to your first general group Tarot and energy work recording. I will also ask if you have any particular question or focus for your private reading. Please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery of your private reading so it can be of the best quality.

 

Get More information about Tarot readings with me

Video- Why and How I Serve Women with Intuitive Readings

Contact me by email with you questions or request a free 15 minute discussion to see if this is a fit for you.

 

More on My credentials

I have been giving Tarot readings for over 18 years, and have specialized in serving writers and entrepreneurs as a transformational coach for the last 4 years. I hold multiple certifications including as a Law of Attraction Coach (QSCA), as an Ethical Intuitive Consultant (FloraSage Therapies), as a Six Sensory (Sonia Choquette),  as a Professional Akashic Records Reader for Life and Business (Akashic Records Institute) and a License in Massage Therapy. I’ve studied and worked under numerous mentors in the arts of intuition and healing over the last five years.

Currently I am studying for a Masters of Arts at Loyola Baltimore in Spiritual and Pastoral Care with a concentration in Spiritual Direction. I’ve been tested accurate by a third party several times and judged as spot on in my intuition. My specialities include deep emotional healing, the creative process and using your voice authentically.

Don’t ask:

Please note I tend to avoid questions of a medical nature ( I am not a doctor who can give a diagnosis). If you ask if you should break up with someone, I can help you connect to your heart and trust your true feelings about the situation but I don’t think it’s ethical to make the decision for you.

 

Ready to know what to do next because you have a private Tarot reading each month?

Sign up here

 

Whether you are a writer or creative entrepreneur, or just want a few tips on how to make the most out of your time and energy this month, a Tarot reading can help you always know what to do next.

If you are open to discovering the top themes of the week, with hints about what is happening this month, then enjoy this free video.

If you would like more clarity on your next steps and always know what to do next with a private tarot reading contact me here. I serve business professionals, writers, creators and others to help them to show up more comfortably in the world, and always know what to do next to make faster progress.

All my readings are empowering and ethical. For this reason I refuse to answer questions of a medical nature or around “should I break up with this person?” Career and creativity questions are my speciality! Feel at ease knowing you can receive spot on information you can trust, tested accurate by a third party. I’ve received several certifications as an accurate intuitive from multiple mentors.

I love providing shorter group readings for free on facebook because it’s helpful to know when to rest and when to really use your energy towards making faster progress. Tarot is one way I help people to do that.

Contact me here if you’d like to know what to do next because you have received a private Tarot reading.

Can’t seem to get started on your projects?

Are you never ready to show your work to people?

Do you want to make faster progress?

 

Jump start your creative juices, make faster progress, and speak comfortably about your work with others in a safe, fun and collaborative environment.

With this free workshop you will:

 

~Easily figure out what you need to do next because you let your intuition guide you.

~Make real progress on your writing or business, so that your work is out in the world and helping people.

~Start focusing on how many people you can help and stop worrying about what other people think.

 

Ready to Make Faster Progress?

Learn some of my BEST stuff in this free distance class, and be able to ask questions.

I will be opening the line near the end to answer anything you have to ask about how to make faster progress on your writing, or creative process wether it is just for fun or for your profession.

RSVP here to get all the details!

And Save the Date: June 28th at 1 PM EST

Please plan to be there for 1 hour or longer if you would like to ask a question.

RSVP to receive the replay as well.

 

Talk to you soon! Blessings

x Sofia Wren

 

PS Please share this post with your friends who might like to make faster progress and be more creative as well. Thank you.

The inner critic is something every writer, and creator has to deal with. It’s not necessarily bad–but here is a free video series to help you make faster progress  (below).

The inner critic part of being a person but a creator CANNOT afford to get complacent about the relationship between themselves and their inner critic. Consumers can just consume, but creators enter a tango.

Sometimes it’s good– we forget the inner critic helps us face reality and make high quality work.

But the inner critic can also completely immobilize you so you get nothing done at all. I know because I’ve actually struggled with a persistent sense of paralysis that will come into my life when I am not watching.

But if I sit with this perfection paralysis and inability to make decisions, they melt from their frozen state and become something else: creative inspiration. You might be surprised to know that I created over 50 videos in June and posted them publicly, many receiving over 100 views in 24 hours– I definitely am getting things done and overcoming this paralysis and it’s a practice in my life.

Every inner critic is a partner just WAITING to feed you inspiration, love and good ideas. The problem is that inner critics can become unbalanced and start kicking you around, specifically at the level of your inner child.

Now the “inner child” may automatically bring up resistance for you because we don’t respect children. We grow out of being a child as fast as we can in American culture, or at least I’ve attempted to do so because of my upbringing. And it isn’t necessarily a great thing to completely move on from being childish.

Why? Because innovation demands that we INNOVATE, begin, start something new or a new line of thinking. Other people may find it childish. Or that new insight can flip everything else on it’s head so much so that what came before not seems childish, as a previous evolution of a much better work. It’s painful either way.

Free Video Series!

I made a series of videos to guide you through the process I use to make faster progress being creative as well as the face of my business, sharing my message to the people it can help.

Step 1. Value what the inner child can give you. This includes a sense of ease coming up with ideas and doing new things. It means you make faster progress at getting what you really want!! Big things yay.

First let me go into why you specifically need to Balance being Naive with being Real to make faster progress with your creativity, writing or creative business.

See Video One

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2. Face the inner critic head on to bring the emotion down.

Give the inner child peace and know what to do next by healing your intuition more clearly.

So in this video I guide you in safety to face the inner critic head on– healing the wound of anything they might have to say that could keep us from writing and moving forward. 

(This is basically a free healing session, the kind I often do with my 1-1 clients around their goals, like for creating money for business or writing for passion.)

See Video Two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Send the inner critic some love. This makes you feel more whole and saves you energy so you can make faster progress. Also it feels nice!

A live attendant from part 2 suggested that I talk about sending love to the Inner Critic, to learn to LOVE our inner critic. 

To do this we may have to face real life critics in our life and bring the anger down with this. It isn’t easy to do yourself so I guided you on how to do this so you can make faster progress on your goals.

So I show you how to love the inner critic? Why? How? 

See Video Three

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you want to make faster progress this Summer of 2016?

You should know there is an event happening to help you with just that (right now!)

 

 

Want to know what to do next in a way that really fits you?

What if you could hear your intuition THAT clearly?

Want to write more for pleasure or your profession?

 

Everything you need to make writing a daily habit this summer!

In a supportive group of other writers as part of the Sacred Writing Circle with Sofia Wren, you will:

 

• Easily figure out what you need to do because you let your intuition guide you.
• Make real progress on your writing and creations, so your work  is out in the world and helping people.
• Start focusing on how many people you can help and stop worry about what other people think.
• Know what to do each month because you’ve received a group tarot reading
• Say yes to what is a priority for you since you’re THAT clear

Find out more to make faster progress and always know what to do next 

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