The Heart-Mending Wordsmith

The Heart-Mending Wordsmith is an 8-Week Signature Process into the Heart of Loss...

to Help YouWrite A Sparkling Narrative

About A Loved One You've Lost

...with plenty of love, support, and encouragement along the way...

In 2012 I took a summer writing course for educators that changed my life.

Our final project was to share a narrative we'd written on a topic of our choice. I felt a pull to write mine about my dad, who I'd lost to cancer a few years before.

The creative process provided me refuge. Emotions erupting like lava from a volcano combined with the action of writing turned out to have serious healing power.

On the last day of class, as I read my narrative aloud, I saw the way my words stirred emotion in each of my classmates, several of them with tears filling and falling from their eyes.

I felt empowered to have created something that could authentically express a sliver of my experience. And in the end, I realized that it didn’t matter if anyone ever read what I’d written not, that going through the writing process had been just for me.

This inspired me to put together some reflections and activities from my writing practice to share with you...

Now combined with some of my tools as a life coach and experience as an educator, they make up the very lessons of this course.

All of the writing experiences fit together to help you create a narrative about your loved one. And you’ll have the opportunity to share your experiences and get support with other kind, open-hearted women like you along the way.

Whether you just want something uplifting to read once a week, want to jot down a few of your thoughts, or want to dive all the way in and create a masterpiece, I’d love to walk with you, encourage you with compassion, and guide you in a series of writing experiences that will help bring creativity, healing, and inspiration to your journey.

I’d love to have you along for the adventure!

Much love and many blessings to you,

Caitlin

This course is for you if:

*You have a little distance from the immediacy of your loss and/or are ready to explore some of your favorite moments with your loved one through writing

*You are open to writing as a form of healing, and are curious how it can help you feel better.

*You’d like to feel more confident, alive, connected, and free.

*You are introspective and appreciate making meaning from your experiences.

*You are sensitive, and a kind, open-hearted person who shows respect both to yourself and to others.

*You are a deep feeling person who wants to use your pain to create something beautiful.

*You are open to and interested in exploring what this loss means for you and for your life.

In the course, you’ll:

*Create a narrative about a special moment with your loved one that creates space to help heal your heart, clear your mind, and bring your most radiant self to life -- with more confidence and freedom because of your loss.

*Be guided through a series of writing exercises to:

• Express your emotions, and put your thoughts into words
• Practice self-care
• Gain insight from your emotions
• Dive deep into the meaning of your relationship, to yourself, to your loved one, to life.
• Transform your pain into pure power and grace.

*Connect with other women who have been through something similar. Women who are wise enough to know that they don't know EXACTLY how you feel, but who can offer endless compassion, love, empathy, and support.

*Have access to a private Discussion Forum for extra connection and support to ask as many questions as you'd like, and share your process at whatever level feels comfortable, and best, for you.

Why take this course?

Because your healing is important. Your stories matter.

And as you heal and inspire yourself through your creativity, you help to heal and inspire the world with your creative spirit and innate gifts.

You create added freedom that can ripple out into the lives of all that you touch through your healing, your art, and the power of love within your heart.

And allowing your pain to become transformed into freedom + insight through writing is one of the most powerful ways I know to do that.

So I hope you join us!

Introduction: Writer’s Oath

Create your very own intention and purpose statement for the course: your promises to your self. Acknowledge what you’d like to give yourself permission for, and what you’d like to heal, create, or release throughout the course of the program.

This sets the stage for all that will unfold and is one of the most magical parts of the journey. (And freeing, too!)

Week 1: Letters without Limits

Allow your heart to be freed and expressed, with any feelings or thoughts that need to get out. Nourish yourself with the power of your own love and find strength to move forward into the process.

Week 2: Whimsical Quick Writes

Discover the power of letting go of perfection to allow your heart to flow onto the page. See the magic that is born with a special exercise to create something stunning and beautiful, in just minutes!

Week 3: Fun with Feelings

Take your current way of looking at feelings and flip it on it’s head with this creative way of approaching and gaining insight from your feelings and emotions.

Week 4: Dynamic Descriptions

Learn how the symbols of your story may have deeper significance than you realize. Dive into playing with what they mean and allow your heart and story to shine because of your discoveries.

Week 5: The Power of Purpose

What is at the heart of your story? Discovering this will help you to infuse that larger purpose into every nook and cranny of your story, celebrating it’s significance in your own personal story and life.

Week 6: The Scenes of Your Story

Learn how to set your story in scenes, that help to ground and anchor the wisdom that you share within your story, and all that it truly means within your heart.

Week 7: Recognize and Release

Allow for the acknowledgement of all that you have been through within these exercises, and how it informs the story you tell. Be prepared to help free yourself from the long held burdens within your heart.

Week 8: Shine it up and Share

Allow your masterpiece to shine and celebrate all you’ve created and everything you’ve learned throughout the course. I’m so proud of you already, and I know you will be, too!