We want to be there to support you every step of the way. We'll be getting together on the first Tuesday of the month, starting August 4th, for 12 months. 

Our meetings will be 90 minutes. We will meet at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern. 

We'll start with Krista and Andrea sharing thoughts and reflections on this week's teachings, then go into some writing tips and exercises. You'll get a chance to share your work and connect with other writers in smaller breakout rooms.

This will be an extremely supportive environment. Share as much or as little as you wish.

There will also be time for a Q&A with Andrea and Krista.

All sessions will be recorded - we would love to have you join us live, and we will be uploading a recording of the workshop if it doesn't align with your schedule.  

Trust that there is a reason you feel drawn to explore this challenging topic and that something meaningful will come out of your bravery. In the first week of our journey, we will support you as we consider choices in writing, create nurturing rituals, and combat the inner critic that keeps you stuck on the surface of your writing or worse, keeps you from picking up the pen at all! 

We'll talk about ways to balance grief and the writing to get to the heart of your story.

You'll be invited to introduce yourself and to begin to get to know the other writers.

In this lesson, we'll talk about the tricks that memory can play as you find ways to own and share your truth. We'll discuss the starting point of your work as well as how to create your own writing flow. You will learn self-care strategies to handle the challenges of grief. 

If you would like to, you can always share your work in the writer's community. Or just pop in to ask a question, offer some support, or run an idea by the other writers.

When writing about loss and trauma, you may find a moment when everything changed forever. This week, we’ll go into that difficult place using the support we have built in the prior modules.

You will learn gentle ways to bring yourself back to the present moment after each writing session. We'll also talk about the importance of including meaningful details as well as which to omit that bring your story to life.

Look for some wonderful and often healing revelations this week as you'll learn ways to remember elements of your story that you may have forgotten and weave them into your narrative to create balance and add a bit of light.

Writing from loss often reveals surprises. In this week's lessons, we will talk about making peace with the positive as well as painful memories and insights that may reveal themselves and how to use them to serve your story.

Now that you have some drafts and writing to look back on, we'll discuss clarity and choices in writing. And we'll get into the power of editing to sculpt your story in order to reveal its beauty.

We’ll talk about the next steps for your story, including where to go next, how to keep writing, and how and when to share your work.

You may be writing for personal reasons, to share your story with friends and family. You may want to publish a book – or anything in between.

You're always welcome to share your drafts in the Writer's Community. We are all here to support each other.