Are you feeling distracted? So many people I know are...There is a LOT going on. I'm also finding myself feeling overloaded.
For the past several years, I've been working on a memoir, and these days, I'm finding it harder to stay with the project.
But as I hold myself accountable, and remain in the difficult parts without getting re-triggered, I'm also reminding myself why I write—and why I help others write.
So much of the contemporary world makes us lose ourselves, but writing is a way to come back— to our body and heart, to the language we love. It's a way to reclaim our stories, our enthusiasms, our creativity, and agency.
I was trained in traditional writing classes, but those classes didn't give me the tools I needed to look at or understand my own story, especially the difficult parts.
It was only when I began to bring my training as a writer together with my training as a meditator and yoga teacher that I was able to witness my full story.
This integration gave new energy to every single piece of writing I have done since.
This integration also gave me greater freedom in the way I live my life.
It took me a long time to come to this approach, and I'm passionate about sharing it with others.
I invite you to join me for my upcoming Free Seminar where I'm going to be going over the four steps to reclaim your voice and your story. This is one of my most in-depth classes; I'll share the backbone of a unique and transformative method that combines traditional literary study with mindful and embodied practices.
Choose the day/time that works best for you! I can't wait to see you there!
If we don't get resolution on our own story, we will always be spending energy trying to submerge it. Whenever we confront a challenge, it will always bring us right back to our weakest point, and we’ll be off balance.
Sometimes people are worried that in revisiting aspects of their past, they’ll get stuck. But when we have agency in looking at our life, rather than getting caught, we actually gain more flexibility, more freedom.
So if you have a story in you that wants to come out, if you have a song to sing, or just a sense that there is part of your creative life that could be more fulfilling, this class is for you.
It will be a space to explore writing as healing AND writing as craft. It's for writers of all levels across all genres! Learn how to tap into your life experiences—whatever genre you work in—to make your writing come alive.
I'll be teaching this class three times the first week of May. See more and join for free here.
love,
Nadia
PS: Another thing that helps my sense of distraction is taking small but regular doses of sharing my political voice...If you'd like the resource that the Align Collective put together to do that, send a quick email to nadia@nadiacolburn.com, and I'm happy to send it your way. Half an hour a few times a week can make a big difference in being a small part of some issues and in feeling more focused.