Writing From The Heart: Finding Home in your Soul Through Telling Your Story- New Course!

Hi friends,

I’ve been writing newsletters and Instagram posts about my new course, Writing from the Heart, for the last week, and it has just occurred to me that despite all the places I’ve written, I didn’t include this blog! What???

I don’t know why these kinds of announcements don’t occur me to me when I think about the blog, but maybe it is because I tell stories here. This has been the space, for seventeen years now, that I have used my words to get through my days.

From this blog, I started writing fiction, and continued with poetry, and told story after story both about my everyday life and from the life of my imagination.

And again and again, people have commented with extremely kind words about how I put things into words and how they feel that they can’t do the same.

But I have a strong conviction that everyone can write and that everyone should write! So here it is: my first online course. 10 weeks of Live teaching on Zoom… I will take you through writing as a practice step by step!

My hope for everyone taking the course is that they will emerge with a writing practice and with confidence. That they will know their words matter. This is so very, very exciting to me, I love to teach, and I love to see the points of people’s journeys, see their aha moments, see their joy in creativity.

You can view details about the course here. (Or here if you are viewing on a mobile device.)

I’ve also written a little list: Five Reasons to Write About Your Life:

Five Reasons to Write About Your Life:

1. You honor your life with your words. There is something specific and necessary about you, about the days that you are in and the people who surround you and the things you like and make and choose—no one else can tell this story and it is here for the telling.

2. Writing is a way into love. You befriend your life when you put words to its patterns and movements. When you love it, you can live in it with friendliness and ease.

3. Humor is an antibody to self pity or despair. When you write about hard things with gentle humor, you take away their power to diminish you.

4. Co-authoring your life reminds you of what you can do and what you can’t. You can listen and love and respond and order. You can tell your story. You can’t control others. But you can be a part of what happens to you by witnessing and responding to it.

5. A collection of words is a body of work. However you choose to share or not share, a body of work is such a beautiful thing to build. These are my days, you say. They are funny, sad, beautiful, blessed, heartbreaking, overwhelming, and joy-filled. They are lumpy, curious, sparkly, clumsy, spacious, and slow. See how they build over time. See how your response in words builds and becomes something for you to hold.

If you want a guide and a kind group of people to accompany you as you begin to write about your days, I’m here! Writing about my life has changed me. Here’s the link again for desktop, and the link for mobile.

Because I forgot to blog about the course, lol, it is still open for Early Bird registration this week! Until December 4, you can take $200 off with the code EARLYBIRD at checkout. 

I hope you join us. 

All my love and thank you for reading my words for all these years,

Rae