Our 30-minute co-writing sessions this week are at: Tuesday 6 PM PT Wednesday 9 AM PT Beginning Monday, October 5, our Wednesday morning co-writing session is moving to Monday at 9:30 AM PT. Our VIP 60-minute Sacred Writing Sessions are: Monday at 10 AM PT — Sacred Conversation Coaching Call Tuesday & Thursday at 9 AM PT— Sacred Writing Sessions Wednesday at 11 AM PT— Sacred Writing Session I'll be in Victoria the week of October 12, so there will be no calls that week. BUT I will be having coffee with @Ryan Clark and some of our Victoria Portal Pals! If you're in the area, drop me a line if you'd like to join Ryan and me on Thursday, October 15 at 10 AM PT. I'd love to share some real hugs IRL. 💜 And one more reminder: beginning October 19, our 30-minute co-writing sessions will become part of the Premium Level. Before we make that move, I'm curious: what do these 30 minutes of writing together give you that’s harder to create on your own?

Earlier this year, several members participated in a Community Challenge across ten Skool communities. Our members shared what they valued about being part of this community. @Vicki Dunn participated and shared how the Sacred Writing Sessions helped her find her “truest words.” You can find the one-minute challenge video on our the Sacred Writing About page. In this short, I share how much I loved that language when I first heard Vicki say it—and asked her permission to borrow it. 🥰 We’re live now if you’d like to join us for tonight’s co-writing session. And the Language Portal opens again at 9:00 AM PT Wednesday morning. What becomes possible when you stop trying to find the right words and give your truest words the space to find you?

For years, I thought writing was primarily about communicating something I already knew. You have an idea, figure out what you want to say, and then find the words to express it. But some of my most important realizations have happened while I was writing. I begin with a thought or a question, and somewhere in the writing I recognize something I couldn't articulate before. It isn't necessarily new information. Often it feels more like something I already knew but hadn't yet put into words. This is one reason writing has become so much more than a way of communicating for me. It's also a way of discovering what's within us. Maybe we don't always need to know exactly what we think before we begin. Sometimes we write long enough to recognize it. Writing doesn't tell you what you know. It reveals it. What have you discovered through writing that you didn't know you knew?

You Had the Words Five Minutes Ago. Where Did They Go? You knew what you wanted to say. Maybe the words came while you were walking, making coffee, or thinking about something completely unrelated. Then you sat down to write them, and suddenly you were searching for the right opening. You tried to make the sentence sound better and wondered whether what you wanted to say made sense at all. The words that felt so clear five minutes ago seemed to disappear. This is one reason I teach the Sacred Pause. Before you try to write, pause. Take a breath, become present, and release the pressure to produce something good. You don't need to be clever. You don't need to know exactly where the writing is going. Listen for what is already there. And begin with: What wants to be said is... This is what we practise together in Sacred Writing. For the next few weeks, our two 30-minute Sacred Writing Sessions remain open to everyone in the community. I'll share more soon about some changes coming to Sacred Writing after our Canadian Thanksgiving. What changes in you between having the thought and trying to write it down?

Your body of work doesn't begin when you sit down to create it. It already exists in fragments. A paragraph you wrote three years ago. A list of quotes, ideas, and random entries in Notes. A workshop you taught once. A question that keeps surfacing in client conversations. An unfinished chapter hidden on your Google Drive. Something you wrote in a journal that later became part of your methodology. A conversation that inspired you or changed how you think. An idea that became a framework you've been refining. Before creating more, look at what you've already created. Then bring it into your Sacred Writing practice. Choose one fragment that still feels alive and begin there. What does it want to become?