Sometimes the only thing to do is write.

I led a workshop this weekend on Insight Timer called the Alchemy of Writing. 

I love the word alchemy. The idea of transforming less valuable metals into gold, of finding an elixir to heal. 

This is writing. 

It is the transformational process and it is the elixir. It is the vehicle to release what no longer serves you and also the gold. 

On days when life seems to, well to just suck, when it feels as if the world I know has been vaporized, I turn to my words. I breathe. I feel. I write.

I excavate. With my pen, I dig in deep. There's gold in me. It's in there, buried within my anger and my fear and my rage and my disgust and my grief and I put it on the page. 

It doesn't always come out pretty. But it comes out. And then, I can play with it. I can transform the words into gold. Into something that might heal me and just maybe, might heal someone else.

The thing is, when I get it on the page, I can feel my heart again. My heart and my hope. My heart and my faith. My heart and my strength. 

I invite you to
USE YOUR WORDS.
USE YOUR PRACTICE.
USE YOUR VOICE.
Feel your heart beat onto the page.

Magical things happened in Sunday's Alchemy of Writing workshop. 

Space was created.
Poems were written.
Ideas were born.
Space was cleared.
Emotions were released.



I am grateful for my writing community.
I am grateful for Insight timer.
I am grateful for my practice.
I am grateful for sailing. For my husband. For my cats. For breath.
I am grateful, even when I don't think I am, I can write and write and write and under it all, I can find something, one thing, to be grateful for.
I am grateful for you. And I am grateful for my first sip of coffee each morning. 

I turn to my journal, my computer, my novel, my Medium, I write and I release. 

And you can do the same. 
Don't try to write a thing. Just write. 

And when all else fails, you can also move! :) A little Cardio Boxing never hurt anyone. :) 

PLEASE, Write On  . . .