To every secret shame that silences you, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every overscheduled day that squeezes out your writing time, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every messy relationship that is too in-the-middle to describe, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every stomachache and sniffle and trip to the ER with the kids, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every fear that it has all been done before, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every Netflix drama whose plot line supersedes yours, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every shred of doubt that these words aren’t worth the effort, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every story that you’re living too fiercely and fully to pin to the page, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
To every whisper that you’re not clever enough or unique enough or creative enough, say: “Thank you. I see you.”
Our writing gets lost in the forest of shoulds.
Our writing gets drowned in the river of comparison.
Our writing gets scorched in the desert of distraction.
Our writing gets blown away by the winds of everyone else’s agenda.
You are responsible - deliriously, deliciously responsible - for your own stories and your own writing practice.
Your mission as an agent of transformation and a force for good is to share your ideas, your experiences, and your dreams with the readers who need your message. You need to reach out with your stories and welcome those potential clients who yearn for the wisdom and support only you can provide.
It’s time to (re)claim your right to tell and explore your stories
Now is the time stand sovereign at the center of your own stories. All the shameful and the messy ones. All the half-formed and the crazy ones. All the commonplace and mystical ones.
Now is the time to stand up for the time and energy it takes to dream and draft and craft those stories into insights that help someone else.
Now. Now is time to claim the time it takes to do all this righteous writerly reclaiming.
And, it’s time to make the space for the words that want to come through you
Tell every excuse, valid or otherwise, that you understand it has its place, but it exists on the other side of the door to your sacred writing space.
Wait, do you have a your sacred writing space?
It may be a room. It may only be a journal and a pen and an intention to find a chair where you can rest and think without interruption.
Your sacred writing space is a space in time as much as it is a place you can pin on a map. It’s the space when your heart spills open and your mind reorders chaos and your brilliance bashes up against your most foolish beliefs.
In order to find yourself in that space, in order to create that space for yourself, you must first unburden yourself.
Say: “Thank you. I see you,” to every item on the litany of resistance that pulls you away from that sacred appointment with your creativity. Ask all of those shoulds, comparison games, distractions, and demands to sit aside while you do the work that you must do.
This is how you create sacred writing space
Try it. Make your own list of the forces that pull the pen from your hand and slam the laptop on your fingers the moment you try to write into your truth. Can you say “Thank you. I see you” to those forces and politely ask them to wait until you’re done drafting into a piece of writing that matters to you?
You may need to do this exercise again and again. And you might find you need support to keep bravely staring down the hobgoblins of writer’s block…
That’s why I've created the Sovereign Writers Circle.
Learn more about the online writing group for healers, therapists, and transformation professionals. This is how you're doing develop the writing practice that supports you, your creativity, and the brilliant work you’re here to do.
