Hi y'all, If you are reading this, I'm so grateful and excited that you are here. It is my dream to create a sacred and safe community where we can be our true selves and write honestly, vulnerably, together. A place where we can share the beauty and mess and honesty of our lives without judgement. We are seen and heard. What catharsis! Our new community is small but MIGHTY so thank you for your support! Each gathering around the zoom writing fire has been warm, connected, powerful, funny, healing. Thank you so much for showing up-- whether it's in the workshops or the comments. We have powerful, creative, healing work to do together! 🌈WRITE WITH ME @ 10 AM FRIDAY, 9/18! I'm excited that my schedule opened up and I am now able to lead an impromptu Right Now I Am workshop tomorrow, Friday 9/18 from 10 -11 AM EST! Start your morning with catharsis! Take an emotional shower! For me, this writing to heal practice is a golden elixir that helps me keep going. I'd love for you to join. 🙌Friday RNIA 10 AM ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87855038036?pwd=WELzLklmBYAfp0UaplVo1s0zJLByzW.1 👋HELLLLOO WITCH👋 I'm thrilled to welcome the magical word witch @Allyson Childress to our community! Enjoy reading about her awesome weird obsession right here--there's also photos! We love you Ally :) ✍️WANT TO WRITE? SAVE THESE DATES.... The one and only @Lora Campbell of Sea Witch Magic will host 2 magical writing circles: Mabon, the Autumnal Equinox on Tuesday, 9/22 from 9-10 AM EST and a Full Moon in Aries workshop on 9/26 from 11 AM-12 PM EST. Click the link to save these dates on your calendars, we'd love for you to join!

Obvs there are obsessions that can be destructive, but what about the constructive obsessions? What about the subjects and themes and questions that continuously pull us in? Right now I'm obsessed with spirals, magic wands, and how the hell I'm going to put my new mythic stories into words. Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment," Claude Monet What's yours??

Below are the cards we drew in today's Conversations with the Goddess workshop. Allow me to introduce: the Shapeshifter from the Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck and Maat from the Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards. They brought us some fascinating wisdom and questions in our writing today. They also brought me the line below which is either brilliant or terrible-I can't tell which! 😂 Deep valleys have as much to teach as high mountain peaks. (Should I put it on a t-shirt??) What's on your mind today??

We had a wonderful Release and Reclaim workshop last night....thank you so much to @Sharon Comunale, @Cate Fitt, and @Mina Smith for sharing your beautiful hearts! Please join me this afternoon at 2 PM EST for Conversations with the Goddess...it's always a revealing, connecting, and cathartic experience! During a coca leaf reading by a shaman during a retreat in Peru on my 48th birthday, I was told that my job here on earth was to share all my stories with people, good and bad. I already knew what he said to be true. I have always found I connect most deeply into universal life force energy when I'm writing and then reading aloud the truth of my life in a circle of people. We hear echoes of our own experiences, threads that prompt our own memories, parallel lives in the voice of another. We share the sacred and profane, the mundane and unbelievable. We share our miseries, our joys, how we're falling apart or healing and coming back together We share our living memoir. Join me for writing how you really feel. It helps heal us all. Love, Valley (PS: I'm sharing a lot of rainbows right now because I need every octave of their healing vibration and unconditional love!)

HI BEAUTIFUL. YES. YOU. This week I wrote about getting struck with How-Did-I-Get-Here Syndrome. Do you ever get hit in the face with that, too?? I've started healing by changing my definition of success from fame and fortune to the ability to show up as ourselves in our own lives again and again. I feel like I can breathe again! ❓❓What words do you find judgemental and confronting? How would you like to redefine them❓❓ __________________ ✍️I love it when you show up to write with me!! JOIN ME THIS WEEK! Monday, 9/14, Release and Reclaim workshop from 6-7 pm EST Tuesday, 9/15 Conversations with the Goddess from 2-3 pm EST ________________ 📅SAVE THE DATE: Join us over here at Writing Fire for the Mabon Autumnal Equinox writing ritual with @Lora Campbell on Tuesday 9/22 at 9 AM EST and the Full Moon in Aries on 9/26 at 11 AM EST! ps.....If you missed @Lora Campbell's powerful sacred time workshop Wednesday, stay tuned....they will be posting a replay! 👏 _______________ 👋WELCOME🌈🌈🌈🌈 ! I'm so excited to welcome our newest community member, the awesome + beautiful memoirist/fiction writer/poet @Brenda Walker! ! Brenda, we are SOOOO happy you're here! 🦅🌲🌈💓 ___________________ 🌊GO DEEPER: If you are looking for opportunities to write and go deeper with me outside of the Skool community, I'd love for you to join me for: Full Moon Writing at the River--In Person! on Saturday, Sept 26, 1-5 PM Subterranean Story Network, Thursday mornings, Sept 24 - Oct 29, 10 - 12 pm EST