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It’s getting to be that time!
The midyear.
I saw someone else do a midyear review,
and it got me inspired to share my writing goals for the year and how things have gone.
There has been a lot of change happening and 3 resources which have really helped me so far this year.
I’ll share it ALL in this review.
Let’s review my original focus for the year:
💚 What I really want is to end this year more self-loving than I began on January 1st, 2023.
What I really want
is to feel connected to my own foundation,
to connect to myself on a daily basis,
to listen to myself —
💚 even the mad, sad, shamed, messy, crazy parts of me,
and be all accepting.
Instead of working on something outside, I want to remember to put the focus on going in.
To sum that up into a word for the year:
FOUNDATION.
(From “The Kindof Year I crave“ on Medium about my New Year Goal)
So now I’ll discuss my writing goals, i.e. subgoals I held loosely under this overall self-love umbrella goal.
So you may notice I mostly write nonfiction these days?
That’s my comfort zone as I’ve been publishing nonfiction for over 20 years online, in magazines, in books, etc.
Nonfiction or business copy is what I help clients with in the Summer Writing Group.
I’ll give my nonfiction a separate review next week.
This is more of a PERSONAL writing goal.
Fiction doesn’t relate to my business so it always feels a little tangential to my core essential writing to do. Easy to skip.
But in honoring my year’s focus on ME,
at the beginning of 2023, I really wanted to work more on a personal fiction project.
Specifically, my fiction series called Blood Witch.
And that’s where I’ve been having the most trouble for several years…
 Covers for books I haven’t finished. |
Blood Witch is a contemporary fantasy/ paranormal romance series I worked on 2020-2021.
Btw I already am mostly finished Book one.
I’ve got quite a lot written for the first 3 books in the series, covers, etc.
Nothing is published or finished yet.
At New Years, I really wanted to figure out how to make progress on this writing project again.
Now getting clear that this was important to me took some time.
🍓 Helpful Resource #1:
I want to thank Elin Loow for her Companions in Creativity space, as well as her seasonal worksheets for creative project planning and reviewing.
These helped me uncover my desire to work on my fiction book while maintaining my primary focus of self love.
I went through her different questions around the New Year, and at times in the spring.
I also used her Summer planning worksheets to prepare for writing this email review.
I got clear on my spring goals and it was time to get to work, so what did I do?
I set a weekly timeblock on my calendar and also set up coworks to support this.
I tried other techniques that work with my nonfiction writing, I talked to a few experts.
The project didn’t feel RIPE.
I feel it viscerally that some projects feel ripe to do now and others do not.
This was unripe. I had no motivation to write.
The thought of pushing myself to try to write any way gave me anxiety, and felt very not wise.
🍓Helpful Resource #2
I had just learned about Jacqui Acree. She teaches EFT/Tapping.
If you don’t know tapping, it’s a tool where you tap acupressure points. I’ve been using it for many years and love it.
It helps me process emotions and move forward.
I decided to do an individual tapping session with Jacqui to help me with emotions around the book series.
That was good: I had too much junk to work through in one session but I did get clear on something:
I should prioritize working through the emotions around my fiction series before trying to write it.
To do this, Jacqui invited me to her Goal Trauma program to keep tapping on it and working through it all.
Since tapping in general works really well for me and Jacqui does it really, really well, I joined her program!
I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve learned from Jacqui Acree’s Goal Trauma class and I want to share how it impacted my writing process,
in a way I really did not expect.
I fully recommend the course, her 1-1 tapping, her other programs, and you can try Jacqui’s upcoming free tapping classes by going here.
Feel Good about your goals so you can relax this summer.
Click here to sign up and get access to Jaqui’s free live classes and replays
Her class helped, and so did a book.
🍓 Helpful Resource #3
A book by Becca Syme, called “The Author Stuck List”.
I was reading it around when I took Goal Trauma and the two complimented each other nicely.
They both assume that if you aren’t doing something, you probably have a very good reason.
What perked my attention was when Becca Syme said,
sometimes people are blocked from writing because there is a life event that needs to be handled.
Moving is one example.
And that made me really look at my life and assess it.
Had I had a big life change? Um yes.
I stopped working on my fiction series when my dad got cancer and then almost immediately died!
That’s a big life change!
I still haven’t gotten back to where I was before my father died in 2021.
Of course, the emotions are a challenge, absolutely,
but specifically, I mean the tasks that were added to my plate.
– the estate responsibilities, deadlines & paperwork alone!
People don’t talk about paper work that can be involved when someone dies.
– 100s of documents I’ve had to page through,
– Dozens of phone calls I’ve made,
– 30 hours of scurrying around to please banks and creditors.
– 100 pages of super picky annoying paperwork to file
– Round after round of deadlines required by state government.
I’ve literally written a book’s worth of papers for the estate at this point, not to mention all the other work.
It has taken up a huge amount of real estate in my mind.
I was kicking and screaming emotionally every step of the way. It sucked.
And what the Author Stuck List, and the Goal Trauma class helped me see is that:
I only have so much bandwidth for stuff.
And since my dad died, I can’t handle as much at one time.
The tasks are more + my brain is still not functioning the same way.
The lessons are:
By doing one thing, you miss out on doing another thing with that time, energy and *bandwidth*.
I never thought about bandwidth, or how I only have the ability to hold a finite number of things in my mind at a time.
I try to do too much, and end up beating myself up when I can’t.
Thank goodness I see now.
The responsibility of being my dad’s executor was a legal necessity.
But the cost was I lost bandwidth needed to write my 5 book fiction series.
It’s taken bandwidth from other essential things, as well,
so now I have a fun pile-up of taxes and other things that need doing.
It adds up to a small mountain eating up my bandwidth.
First things first: clear stuff the mountain out of the way.
WHAT A CHANGE IN THINKING.
For the last two years, I have not made significant movement on this fiction book series and thought:
– I need a new editor, writing coach, etc.
– I just need to figure out my block
– I’m just lazy or uncommitted or scared to fail and that’s on me
And believe me, all of those things may have ALSO been true, but they were not the *real root* of the problem.
Going through Jacqui Acree’s Goal Trauma program, she guided me to lovingly dive in and explore the real root of the problem.
It helped me cut through the noise,
forgive the hell out of myself,
work through all those possibilities, and
figure out how to accomplish my goals in an easier way.
Because if it’s too hard, it’s not happening. Life is better when things feel easy.
Her process worked really well for me and where I was at with the fiction goal.
So that’s how I figured out my big insight since January:
I just don’t have the headspace to hold a whole 5 book series right now!!!
With running the estate + running my business + all the nonfiction writing I want to do for that,
I really DO NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY.
And that’s ok.
Self-love, self-acceptance, listening to myself, ahoy.
Thank god, I’m doing it, for sure.
And big thanks to Jacqui Acree, who I definitely feel like helped me realize opportunities for more self-love through tapping.
Tapping helped me release bad feelings, so I could objectively assess my fiction goal and how I relate to it.
I have limits.
And that’s just fine.
I understand myself and my writing process better.
I have been able to RELEASE the pressure to work on something I physically cannot do right now.
I’ve stopped the negative self-talk and blaming around the lack of progress on my fiction series.
That’s all waste of energy, and tapping helped me let it go.
I’m channeling my energy into more useful things.
so I just watch the replay again.
Each time I watch, I tap on something new.
It helps me take step after step to knock things down.
It’s a super helpful resource!!!
I have been better about not writing fiction, and I’ve doing other things instead.
I’m getting a lot of other things done
and chopping steadily through the mountain
of things standing between me and fiction writing.
I’m going to talk about my business writing goals next week.
My intention for the Goal Trauma program was to focus on my life goals,
although it had some benefits like more confidence that helped my career.
It’s too much to get into right now,
so I’ll do another post reviewing my writing goals related to my business,
like Medium.
Stay tuned for more about writing for Medium next week and other biz goals.
Because this is 100% in line with my self-love focus this year.
To be clear these are things I deliberately did tapping on with Jacqui’s Goal Trauma class to do more easily, not just any old thing I did:
– I finished my wedding announcement.
I made custom cards with links to a special website and sent them out, followed by social media announcement. Since I’m sad about my dad not being around, this was extra emotional and hard to announce, and it took me a long time to do. But the hard work is done and I’ve enjoyed so much love in response. Yay!
– I’m studying Italian regularly for the first time since 2020.
I had been feeling bad and discouraged. I’ve stopped the negative self-talk about it. I found a new way to study languages that feels much more fun with the LingQ app, and using it and learning a lot. I am planning to see my Italian family later this year and have a honeymoon in Italy!
– I’m going to the gym more and pushing myself to get strong and fit.
I’m going to new specialists to help with lingering health problems I’ve had for years. Health journeys are super emotional especially when it goes on for a long time, but so essential to face.
– I am doing volunteer work for Her Future Foundation regularly.
Since my dad died, I felt too overwhelmed to help them much because I could barely take care of my own stuff. But I’ve been really involved this spring. I wrote a grant for their funding, fundraised $255 for an event to end myths about FGM. We didn’t get that grant but I am exploring new grant opportunities. It can be hard to keep going sometimes when their funding doesn’t come through but I know that helping them is part of what I’m on the planet to do.
And finally:
Thank god I don’t have those state government deadlines anymore, and the estate is closed. I’m not done wrapping up everything left behind by my dad. Some things are still pressing. But hey, a step completed is a step completed. You can bet I used Goal Trauma to help complete this crud.
If my goal is to love myself more at the end of the year than the beginning, I am definitely on track.
– I’m feeling much more ENOUGH.
– I’m feeling more self-forgiveness about the limits of my abilities.
– I’m feeling more self-trust to do business and life *my way.*
– I’m feeling more realistic about what I can put on my plate so I don’t stress about what I can’t do.
I am getting emotionally difficult things done as well.
All in all, it’s been a great few months.
I’m grateful that in the last 6 months I’ve come such a long way in so many areas.
I’m grateful I found Jacqui Acree to help support and I’m strategically tapping a lot more, making it easier.
I’m sharing to celebrate and also to offer her, Elin’s worksheets and Becca Syme’s book as resources to you.
3 Resources:
1. Jacqui Acree, Tapping classes and coaching
2. Elin Loow, Four Seasons of Creative Work Worksheets
3. Becca Syme, The Author Stuck List
of you writing or accomplishing other goals,
over goals, things that went wrong, or respond in another way that doesn’t help you:
I really recommend Jacqui Acree’s Goal Trauma program. That program isn’t open yet! It starts later this month, and she also has smaller programs coming up over the summer.
So instead do something free:
Feel Good about your goals so you can relax this summer.
In that case, have fun writing your story, message, book or business content
so you can be of greater service in a greater way.
Join The Summer Writing Group community for guidance and coaching to write.
Doors open again in November 2023 for winter.
A few people told me they are not in the right headspace to write and have other things in the way.
Maybe Jacqui Acree‘s classes or the others could be a great resource for you, like it was for me.
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❤ A feeling of enoughness
❤ A sense of purpose on the path
❤ Knowing I am taking one step at a time
and all of them feel right
❤ I’m doing something meaningful
Those are the reasons I step up to do what my soul is calling me to do.
If you feel called to write for your book, business copy or content, website, articles, video scripts or other nonfiction
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Let’s be honest the not-shy, not-sensitive or not-introverted people
tend to be a little LOUDER in the world.
Ya’ll I’m craving some new voices in the world!!!
In this time of change!!
We need youuuuuu.
There are cool peeps who are extroverted, nonsensitive, and unshy
But they probably don’t need this blogpost!!!
They are already rolling.
Most people I work with are sensitive, shy or introverted in some way (or used to be!).
People call me when they NEED a push to get rolling
or even a targeted nudge that is gentle yet effective…
So to you I say,
You are needed.
Your voice matters.
And you may compare yourself to where you want to be,
or to other people.
Or never feel like your writing has reached the point it needs to be.
you keep your ideas under wraps for longer
or you don’t even know how to put things into words to share in the first place.
Don’t mistake me–I throw you no shade for “taking too long”,
it took me 8 years to write my book and publish it,
and I have no regrets on taking my time.
But you need to really absorb this:
You may be sensitive, introverted and shy to the fulllllllllest extent
and
I NEVER EVER used to think of myself as a leader….
or as creative
or as a writer.
No, way! For decades,
I was bullied,
I was harassed.
I didn’t want anyone to look at me
unless I had the RIGHT answer in school.
(And if I didn’t think it was 100% right then I kept my mouth shut.)
Of course, during my teens, I had a very secret blog where I shared more personal stuff!!!
…..but that’s a story for another day…
But all I have to do is look at my latest email newsletter or article,
to totally disprove all that.
Those old ways I used to see myself.
Now it seems totally ridiculous
that I’d ever not think of myself as a writer, or
that I’d ever not think of myself as creative.
But here is the thing…
I haven’t gotten there yet.
I am STILL working on knowing that with a full 100%
but I am getting a lot, lot closer 🙂
And I do know now that it is just my subconscious/conditioning/ego talking.
Plus getting to 100% really doesn’t fully matter,
because what matters most is whether I’m living my life,
DOING things to act like a leader,
not what I’m called or who believes that about me.
And I can say 100% I’m doing the work baby, I’m writing the words!!
But I want you to know that I have wobbles, too.
I’m human.
But I didn’t get where I am by staying frozen in self doubt.
I dared to believe even when I thought me being a writer was totally stupid.
The point is, whatever your NEXT LEVEL is,
How high you can climb.
What you can accomplish.
What you can write or create.
And it is okay for there to still be a NEXT LEVEL ahead of you.
You’ve come a long way already, and
No one really KNOWS that.
(At least all the sensitive, shy, introverted people I know never do hehe.)
As I have seen,
everybody is the same deep down.
It’s easy for the little voices in your head to discourage you,
not just from trying,
but from ever really believing it is possible 100 percent!!
Just remember:
But it can definitely help to get support to walk the walk,
and do the things,
and writing the words
with people who are all doing the same sort of thing.
A book,
Posts,
Articles,
Videos,
Podcasts,
Blogs,
Email,
Course material,
Sales pages,
All the things nonfiction or business related…
Then come join the Summer Writing Group!
The theme this summer is Writing as Transformational Leadership.
Step into the “surprisingly awesome” leader inside of you and
write from THAT space easily so
the words that can help people will pour out of you naturally and
you can inspire, teach and lead others who will love what you have to say.
And then one day, you might look up and think,
For free spirits, mermaids-at heart, and entrepreneurs who want to
write for a nonfiction book, website, emails, posts, articles, blogs, or video scripts.
– Get clear on what to write, get into a flow writing or stay in the flow over the summer.
– Hone your writing so it has the power to move people with your book or your business.
– Use writing to step up as a leader and serve more people who need what you have to say.
Connect to the mermaid inside of you:
your intuition and who you really are
and instantly know what to do or write next.
Step into the leader you are here to be.
The first live meeting is June 1st at 2 PM EST.
– 10 LIVE BI-WEEKLY GROUP ZOOM CALLS
– 6 MONTHS GROUP VOXER COACHING + EDITING
– 6 MONTH ACCESS TO VIDEO VAULT
– BONUS DIGITAL ORGANIZATION TEMPLATE SET
– BONUS DIGITAL ORGANIZATION CLASS
Lots of love, courage & mermaid vibes,
Sofia Wren
Yesterday I had a massive writing AHA on a project I’ve been working on since September 2022.
Thank you digital organization!!
I was at the library doing something totally different-a mid year review. I read through some old notes about my past writing goals. Luckily I already had those written out in a specific area.
As I read, I clicked between various documents I keep in my favorite writing application.
I used to keep all of these in folders in my computer, or Google Docs and then in Scrivener. I still use Notion and Google Docs for certain things, but my writing HOME is a new application I’ve used for a year.
Also it’s free.
It’s where 90% of my writing goes and where I write daily.
I can make a million files because it’s easy to organize. The files are small so it doesn’t take up much space. I have everything from daily journals to book drafts to article ideas to business ideas in there. Even my todo list is there now.
And it’s synced on all my computers AND my phone. (I do pay a small fee for that/the cloud storage I already use.)
Everything is linked so I can see where ideas connect across the hundreds of documents.
I’ve been doing this for a year and every so often I have an experience that really shows me the benefit of this system.
Reviewing my writing goals for the season led me to a really powerful write up I had done in my journal.
There was a conversation I had with Kate in Paradise last July on voxer. I’d transcribed part of it.
Something we talked about perfectly related to a project I have been working on since October.
This is for a vlog series on Life after Loss, a sequel to the video about lessons from a year grieving my father. It’s about my personal journey grieving and what I’m learning.
Because I have everything connected, I didn’t even have to remember this conversation happened or that I had it written out, it just naturally came up.
I didn’t have to go into a year of paper notebooks or look through endless folders. The exact entry of the conversation popped up with a click.
What’s crazy is how much that conversation from a year ago still resonated today, which led me to the answer I hadn’t realized I was looking for.
I’ll be working on my vlog over the summer.
But I love how I can work on multiple projects and keep them all in one application, dance between one and another and connect everything to everything.
This picture above is what all my writing looks like in “graph” view where you can see all the connections between ideas and documents.
If you’d like to learn about how I’m doing this sort of digital organization process,I’ll be teaching more about it in the upcoming Summer Writing Group. It’s been truly life altering.
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This group coaching program is for free spirits, mermaids-at heart, and entrepreneurs who want to
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The goals of the writing group is to:
– Get clear on what to write, get into a flow writing or stay in the flow over the summer.
– Hone your writing so it has the power to move people and understand your key message.
– Use writing to step up as a leader and serve more people who need what you have to say.
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Answer: Midnight EST June 13th 2023
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You can now get full access to everything included in the Summer Writing Group for $79/month (6 payments)
Answer: The first live meeting was June 1st at 2 PM EST.
If you’ve missed it, you can quickly catch up with the replay.
The program includes 7 classes teaching writing techniques and guided writing exercises.
After one hour, the session is open to Q & A.
There are also 3 Coworking sessions for connecting and writing together.
The full list of live sessions includes:
June 1 – Class 1
June 15 – Class 2
June 29 – Cowork
July 13 – Class 3
July 27 – Class 4
August 10 – Cowork
Aug 24 – Class 5
Sept 7 – Class 6
Sept 14 – Class 7
Final COWORK TBD
$1200 value
You will get the replays and transcripts.
PLUS you’ll have access to me to ask questions with voxer coaching for 6 months!
Includes editing feedback of up to one 2 page document per month.
Voxer is a free app where you can reach me with text and audio messages.
You’ll have access to a group to reach me through the week,
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Voxer coaching June 1st – November 30th 2023
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Every dot, in this image above represents, an idea or a writing document! I use this application to produce high-quality writing consistently and organize everything I write. That way I can develop lots of different projects over time and never lose anything.
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“I have accomplished so much this summer, and I’ve been writing a lot of different things and having a lot of breakthroughs in the area of ease and flow. I’ve been putting a lot less pressure on myself around what I need to get done. It doesn’t need to be difficult. Thank you for this beautiful space.”
-Kate Burkett, Inner Beauty and Founder of Kate in Paradise
Hope this helps you decide if the group is right for you and
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You are growing, changing, and stepping into a new level.
It is time to write your book,
be a leader,
grow your business, while
trying to be a more balanced human being.
Whatever you are working on, I know it’s not always easy but I am here cheering you on!!
The writers and entrepreneurs I work with are grappling with fear daily on the path to write and grow a business to serve more people.
It can make your heart pound or show up as:
🌪️ Indecision
🌪️ Not Knowing What to Do Next
🌪️ Uncertainty
🌪️ Confusion
🌪️ Writers block
🌪️ Procrastination
🌪️ Stalling
🌪️ Self doubt
🌪️ Disquiet
🌪️ Anxiety
🌪️ Stomach aches
🌪️ Absence of Peace
I see you dealing with it all 🙌
But what if it could feel less scary and more like an adventure?
What if you could have more fun?
How about hanging out with a crew of like-minded peeps,
❤️ me and some mermaids at heart ❤️
as we all tap into our inspiration and write around you?
Let’s do it 🧜🏼♀️🧜🏼♀️🧜🏼♀️🧜🏼♀️
The Summer Writing Group for Business Mermaids opens tomorrow!
Here comes the ease, fun + flow
8 spots are opening up.
Authenticity. Vulnerability.
There are many ways to define what makes your writing or your words AUTHENTIC.
🦋 For me, I just think about the opposite.
When I was growing up and I was so scared to be myself.
🌪️ I was scared of being judged.
🌪️ I was scared of being yelled at.
🌪️ I was scared of being noticed at all.
I had gotten far too much negative attention.
It outweighed the risk of receiving anything positive.
In an article recently I said this acted like an electric fence, the thing they use for dogs–
When you get enough negative feedback, you start to avoid places where you might get a shock.
You keep avoiding areas and you don’t even notice if
🌷 the people around you have changed,
🌷 the world has changed,
🌷 where you live has changed.
Even if it’s safe now…
You are still avoiding shocks even if they really will never come.
But still you stay in your little box.
For me I had to stuff all my individuality in that box.
My creativity.
My passion.
My joy.
My silliness.
AND I WANTED THAT BACK.
I have lived under the weight of fear in my life.
I know how it limited me and made me silent in certain ways that I did not enjoy.
🦋 So I sought to lift that weight. That’s what authenticity is to me.
🌷 I found safe spaces to voice, question and probe the areas I was scared to talk about.
🌷 I did little experiments, telling stories, sharing thoughts within safe spaces.
🌷 And then I brought some of those stories and thoughts to the public in writing.
In each little experiment I found out if anything bad would happen.
Mostly it didn’t. Nothing was dire.
In doing all of this my life became more free.
And the thing that really became addictive for me:
🦋 Not only did I become more free, but people said my writing empowered or inspired them.
That’s what got me so hooked, realizing that:
Since I discovered this, I couldn’t get enough.
FACING MY FEARS BECAME A HIGH VALUE FOR ME.
It became a lifestyle for me to keep exploring and sharing my voice (with as much safety and intention as possible) even if it made my heart pitter patter.
Because I have done that over and over again,
I have FELT THE LOVE of
🌷 friends I have created and maintained,
🌷 clients I have worked with (and love),
and so much more.
Writing was the way I got into being more authenticity.
I found it a lot easier to be vulnerable that way.
I’ve truly created a second family from being more myself in my writing.
🌪️ I’m not talking about airing every single little THING that enters your mind.
🌪️ I’m not saying you MUST tell everyone your biggest fears and insecurities or secrets.
🌪️ I’m not demanding you publish every unfinished draft or “you are fake and superficial.”
NONE OF THAT.
The point is:
there are things you could be more open about that could change your life and someone else’s life.
And you get to determine specifically what those things are.
Just THINGS.
Things that are worth opening up about because it’s a service to you and others.
Because it’s changed my life so much for the better, I love to help people
🌷 who have something inside of them that hasn’t come out yet,
🌷 who haven’t found the audience that loves your writing yet.
🌷 who want to get the writing for your book or business to the point where it feels good to share
And then keep writing, editing, and sharing it until you feel the reaction you are hoping for.
Because, yes, writing for yourself is amazing and necessary and part of this process.
But when you show up to be of service (and yourself) and
that’s how you will feel the love:
🏵️ the confirmation that you are safe,
🏵️ you belong, and
🏵️ you are NEEDED here.
“In keeping our vulnerabilities private, we never get the chance to know who else is out there, who else might understand or even be helped by whatever it is we’re holding back.
“When someone chooses to lift the curtain on a perceived imperfection in her story, on a circumstance or condition that traditionally might be considered to be a weakness,
what she’s often actually revealing is the source code for her steadiness and strength.
“And as we’ve seen plenty of times in our history, the strength of one resolute soul can become the strength of many.” – Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry
That is possible for you!!
🏵️ Exploring how to tell a vulnerable story.
🏵️ Stepping into an area that makes you feel like a fraud .
🏵️ Expressing an opinion when you’re afraid people will say you are wrong.
🌪️ Indecision
🌪️ Not Knowing What to Do Next
🌪️ Uncertainty
🌪️ Confusion
🌪️ Writers block
🌪️ Procrastination
🌪️ Stalling
🌪️ Self doubt
🌪️ Disquiet
🌪️ Anxiety
🌪️ Stomach aches
🌪️ Absence of Peace
I highly recommend finding a safe reader or a group where you can practice sharing.
First share your writing on a smaller scale, way before you share it with the world.
🦋 Then you can improve your writing and get more comfortable sharing it.
When you are a writer or an entrepreneur in the beginning of a project,
🏵️ having a safe space can really help you launch a website, book or business offer with confidence.
🦋 They gave me clarity about what I wanted to share, how to share it, &
the courage to press publish on my business ideas and my book.
And because I got SUPPORT to face my fears and smooth out those rough edges,
my life, my business, my relationships are all different now as a result.
🏵️ The Summer Writing Group can be that space for you to
get more comfortable writing and sharing about difficult things.
Not only does it include live classes with Q and A,
but it also includes a private group where
🌷 you can share one written piece per month (up to 2 pages) for editing and feedback from me and others in the group.
The Summer Writing Group can be your safe space to share.
If you sign up, this group would be available for you for 6 months, June – November.
May 25th 2023
There are already about 8 magical mermaids signed up from the last group.
There will be MAX 8 spots for new people to join.
Due to the high value, low cost + limited spots,
The group has sold out the past 2 times.
The waitlist gets FIRST notice when the group opens Thursday.
🦋 💜 🌿
I don’t know about you, but 🌪️ when I feel like I don’t have enough time,
🏵️ listening to myself goes out the window, and
🏵️ my self care goes out the window and
🏵️ all these other good things go out the window.
Giving yourself more time to do things–and taking a deep breath–
is a great way to make sure you are taking care of yourself, as well as getting more things done.
And for writers, some stories take longer than you may think they will.
My first book took 8 years to write, edit and publish.
Sometimes it takes time to produce something you are PROUD of.
I value having enough 🌷TIME 🌷and not feeling rushed because
🌪️ living under a constant deadline negatively impacts my mental health 🌪️
and the same goes for the people that I serve.
That’s why for my 🏵️ Summer Writing Group coaching program, I originally planned for it to be seven weeks long,
but in the end I decided to make it six months. 🏵️
Why?
Because I really wanted people who wanted to write to get space to
🏵️ connect to themselves on a much deeper level,
🏵️ have work-life balance, and
🏵️ share more deeply, richly and easily in their writing.
Which is the perfect vibe for writing during the summer, don’t you think?
to write
🌷 a new bio for your website,
🌷 or your first blog post,
🌷 your sales page, or
🌷a few more chapters of your book.
🏵️ What would it feel like to have six months rather than seven weeks to make progress? 🏵️
Giving yourself time makes it so much more spacious,
so much more expansive and
allows you to slow down listen to yourself and be kind to yourself.
I’m super excited for this summer’s writing group where we will all have the time to do this in a community together!
There are already about 8 people signed up, continuing on from the last group.
There will be MAX 8 spots for new people to join.
If you want to join us, I recommend joining the waitlist as the group sold out the past 2 times and the spots are limited.
