The Power of Writing
Writing for Healing, Self Discovery and Accessing Your Inner Wisdom

Talking to paper is talking to the divine. It is talking to an ear that will understand even the most difficult things. Paper is infinitely patient. – Burghild Nina Holzer

Four Week Tele-class, Fall Schedule coming soon
(all these classes will be recorded and available for download)

I’m so grateful for your class. I’ve been accessing my hearts desires and getting amazing messages from my Higher Self. I truly appreciated your patience, generosity and kindness. – Deborah Eastwood

Thanks for your energy and enthusiasm encased in generosity for each one as shared all the ways writing can serve us. – David Stafford

In a small, safe and supportive group we will come together to experience the ways writing can help you access your inner wisdom and natural ability to heal and prosper. You will take home tools for continuing to use writing to gain insights and shift perceptions toward healing. We will work exercises to assist with healing your body and soul including working with journaling, rewriting our story, body dialoging, accessing our own inner wisdom and imagination and listening to the desires of your heart and HIgher Self. On the calls the lines will be open so that we can talk freely and homework will be given to help you deepen your experience of the process.

I first started keeping a journal in college and have maintained that practice for over thirty five years. Expanding into creative writing followed as a natural progression of this practice of putting pen to paper along with a strong sense of the power of words. Besides the experience of deep satisfaction that comes from engaging the creative process, writing has also served my personal growth in profound ways. After teaching the writing process to groups for almost 20 years I’ve seen how often working with the writing and our understanding our stories assists healing, affirming the value of our lives and tapping into our deeper knowing.

In his book, Opening Up, James W Pennebaker, PhD, documents his years of research into the healing effects of writing. He found, what many people who have kept a journal often discover on their own, “that if we can create a cohesive personal narrative of our lives and if we can link up our emotions with specific events, then we have the power to take control of how those emotions and events affect our lives.” As Isak Dinesan, the author of Out of Africa, said “All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.”

There is also a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that showed, “that merely writing about past stressful life experiences results in symptom reduction among patients with asthma or rheumatoid arthritis.” In his work with Radical Forgiveness Colin Tipping uses the writing process to access forgiveness in a very deep way.

Poet May Sarton said that “… the only way through pain … is to go through it, to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means …. Nothing that happens to us, even the most terrible shock, is unusable, and everything has somehow to be built into the fabric of the personality ….” Through writing, we can find order and meaning in everything that has happened to us. Whichever form our writing takes: journaling, morning pages, stream of consciousness, writing practice, poetry, memoir, fiction, or essays; it has the power to heal us and to help us grow.