Healing Through Writing

Taking you on a journey of gifts and magic and my intention to share all this with you.

For reasons unbeknown to me, this post is a follow on from last week’s article:

I was guided to write this piece first and then follow on with this one. Feedback has been that it’s a powerful one. Lots of golden nuggets. I’ve a feeling it will connect with more of us over time.

This one is a brief overview of my own journey in healing through writing.

Back in the first UK lockdown of 2020, I did my first yoga nidra as passed on and recommended to me by Claire Venus one full moon.

The power of connecting to the full moon during the guided and meditative experience online felt super strong. At the end, I received with the first gift I’d ever consciously connected with. It was the gift of Healing Through Writing. My wrists began to shake and everything! It was a super surreal experience.

It was shortly after this that I started writing from a place of severe and agonising pain. A place from which I could only write one word at a time.

One word grew into a series of words both inside and outside of migraine attack. Sentences began to form, posts were being constructed. Now and again, I would share them on my socials. Averaging maybe one every 3 weeks or so.

The year after I joined a Creative Content Club, a magical space held by Claire who also happens to be one of my biggest cheerleaders! Momentum along with creative ideas and expression started to build (alongside improving health) and I was able to share posts weekly. The support of the community in this group helped my confidence and ability grow, I learnt so much and felt super supported. It was a safe space to be in and I felt held.

Later that same year I was asked to write a blog, titled Pain and Progress for Healers Magazine. You can read it here:

It was the first blog I had ever written in my life.

A passion for something I had once so much loved in school reignited decades later.

Purely as a way to quickly capture all the magic that would happen in my life, I began to write poems. Friends told me about the poems I used to write in school. I can’t remember writing poems or even being good at writing. I can only remember my love for writing and my love of attending English class.

Back in the world of corporate working, before complete disability by illness took hold, fleeting thoughts of “if I’d been younger, I would’ve been a blogger” would pass through my mind now and again. It never occurred to me that I could put pen to paper at any time and write merely for the sake of it.

Now, here I am – a blogger, a writer and I’ve only very recently come to the realise (after 3 years of self-doubt) that, yes, I am a poetry writer too.

Intentions are powerful. Declaring that I wanted to live mortgage free & for creative ideas to flow to me has since meant living in a static caravan by ten lakes where an abundance of ideas flow to me regularly on doorstep walks.

When the journey of my journaling adventure began in 2018, I described it as a tool that saved my life. Over the next 4 years my practice developed and I’ve come to realise that it has grown into a tool that helps me level up in all areas of my life, relationships, and business - as well as a tool that improves my mental, emotional and physical health adn wellbeing.

To date I have 3 books in first draft format, I’ve written “the book before the book” (yet to rewrite) and have a series of other book ideas to follow.

For a while, I’ve had this deep inner knowing that I am going to take other writers with me on the journey to getting published. In what capacity I haven’t yet been sure.  

Will I publish books with them? It’s looking likely. Will I refer them to my publisher? I haven’t even got a publisher right now, but I ‘know’ that one is coming. Will I inspire, encourage and guide others to write? I already appear to be doing this.

At the beginning of this year, I set an intention to take you on a journey towards living a life of full self-expression. This is, in part, something that writing has gifted me. A gift I want to share with you.

After decades of living in agonising silence and discovering I am far from the only one, my greatest passion has since become helping others who live with chronic illness find their voice.

Writing, yoga, circle, community and emotional support has been a substantial part of my journey and a direct link to my improving wellness.

I am bringing together these varying aspects into online space, Healing Through Writing and I would LOVE for you to join me.

Every Monday at 9:30am from 11^th March we will meet for one hour.

We will come together in circle, establish a community, arrive into a brave space to show up, be seen and support (ourselves as well as one another).

The invitation will be to come as you are. Whether that’s in your pjs, from your bed, in a place of recovery – you get to show up as you are. This will be so much more than a writing space and, together, we will co-create it.

Irrespective of whether you write one word, one sentence, a paragraph or a few. Be it for your journal, your socials, a blog or the start of something new. It matters not.  

The invitation is open.

We start on Monday 11^th March

@ 9:30am (GMT).

The introduction rate of £11 per month // £80 per year is now open.

As mentioned, the intention is to take you on a journey, therefore, the annual membership is recommended.

The last date to secure the intro rate will be Sunday 17th March.

The regular price will be £22 per month // £111 per year from Monday 18^th March.

More detail on the format to follow in next week’s post.

Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome. Irrespective of whether you consider yourself to be a writer or not, are sharing posts regularly or are yet to put pen to paper for the very first time. Come on in!