Writing Yourself Well

 

Often, we hide our truest feelings from our families and friends out of the fear of loss of love, or because we felt shamed or rejected in the past.

 

Wherever you have not been able to express authentically in the past will be a stuck place where you habitually continue to reject, repress, and even punish inside of yourself. 

 

It is often easier at first, to write rather than speak about what is unfamiliar, unknown, or what you reject inside. Witnessed writing starts to move the stuck places in your mind and body, and invites the possibility of accepting yourself through the process of your own courageous sharing. Through honest sharing, in a safe way that honors both the light and the dark inside of you, it is possible to create a new experience of self-acceptance within.

 

Practicing Radical Honesty

 

E-mail sharing is a way to heal many forms of emotional repression - creative, emotional, physical, sexual or relational in the safe quiet space of your own home. Sharing more intimately than you are used to, with yourself first, and then with me within a sacred space of love and trust, can help heal limited emotional and mental conditioning in an atmosphere of safety and quietude. Honest sharing, with a trusted other, makes the uncomfortable - comfortable, over time.

 

Creative people can heal emotional pain, depression/repression, and practice self-acceptance through the process of writing, drawing, painting or collaging what feels frightening or "forbidden". Receiving questions and feedback for your creative process helps to deepen self-reflection to amplify your understanding and self-acceptance.

 

You could think of e-mail therapy support as an interactive, connected, and witnessed journaling process that promotes more self-honesty and accountability about all parts of yourself to a trusted other. If you enjoy processing and sharing your life through art or writing, e-mail sharing may be a good option for your emotional healing.

 

Writing

 

Usually there is an internal pressure about what needs to be expressed first. Start sensing into what hurts. Keep your focus on what you are most struggling with, and lean towards what you do not yet know about yourself as you write. Allow your writing to reveal something you are aching to understand.

 

Typically there will be one main thing that is burning inside you that "needs" to be shared first. Try to focus on one key emotional  issue in each 1-hour writing session. If this emotional pain has other problems branching off of it, include how these problems are affecting your feelings.

 

I offer a wide variety of writing exercises to support you to express yourself. Please contact me if you are feeling stuck with your first submission.

 

Unburdening Secrets

 

The writing process allows you to get used to sharing what has until now been hidden from other people. I encourage you to write until you feel a sense of release, completion and unburdening. This may involve spontaneous free-form writing, or you may re-read and re-write your submission several times to really integrate some discomfort before you send your writing.

 

Our work together will include in-depth questions about the patterns of your thoughts, and feedback on how your writing may be pointing you in a healing direction. Intimacy with your most ostracized parts of self will be encouraged. The results of your email sharing should feel liberating.

 

I will guide you to understand your inner landscape by pointing out the patterns of your own thinking and creating. We will focus on where you feel shrouded or unknown to yourself, and how it is causing you emotional pain.  We will also look at where you resist self-acceptance. 

 

Art and Creative Work

 

Art and other creative work is optional in your submissions. Please photograph your collages, paintings, drawings or art journal pages and submit up to four in a Word doc along with writings about your personal impressions of your creative work. Art and writing submission ideas are HERE.

 

Purchase Your Email Session: 1 Hour

 

$130 CAD - Thank-you for paying for your session along with your e-mail submission.  You can submit a one hour writing session and I will answer in kind.

 

I look forward to reading and contemplating your creative work and supporting you clarify what your creative process is communicating to you. I will typically get back to you within 1 week after your submission.