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Breathe in, breathe out, write.
And again.
Breathe in, breathe out, write.

Listen: you’ll be given a prompt, an exercise to help you begin.
Something inside you will respond.
Words you didn’t know you had start to appear on the page.

Writing in a group is a kind of miracle.
What seems the most vulnerable thing in the world,
sometimes the most impossible to get to on your own,
becomes easy, effortless.
Magic happens.
Whatever was blocked in you, becomes unblocked.

A safe space, the container of a group,
and a writing prompt, is where it all begins.

And there is more.
The work you begin in the group
can start to become your work.
You want to go further, go deeper,
understand craft, structure, form.
You want to do this on your own.
You want writing to be part of your life.

Yes. It begins here. It always begins here
With learning to trust yourself.
And learning to trust the creative process.

Breathe in. Breathe out. Write.
Listen to the body. Breathe out. Write.
Give the body’s wisdom and way of knowing, a voice.
Keep learning, from the body.

Keep finding, more and more,
what it means, how it feels, to have a voice.

Your voice, rooted in your body.
Writing.

And it is sacred.
This practice, of finding your voice.
It is sacred, because your voice is who you are,
and you are sacred.

Your body is who you are,
and you are sacred.

Your body wants to be loved and known,
for what it is.
All of that, will feed your writing.

All of that will teach you
what you need to know, about being alive,
on planet earth
living your life
the one you came here for.

And each time you feel too scared
—too scared to write
too scared of all the voices that say
STOP—Be Quiet now—You’ve said enough—

you’ll remember this: the word sacred is so close to the word
scared—because when you write in your own voice
you’re so close to your own power
—you can almost touch it—

and power always feels a little scary

until you remember that all power is really love
and there’s nothing more sacred

or scary!—than that

so you keep writing because you really want
to love yourself
that much

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