Do you have any current resistance to writing?
I’ve been going through some of that myself.
These posts are easy to generate. Writing grants for work has been easy.
But the other writing I want to do about my life has been a challenge.
One of the communities I joined to help me is Foster.
We’re midway through the season and I’ve been working on writing from awareness.
I love that this group uses meditation and somatic techniques to facilitate writing.
The other day, we were in a group activity and I could hear an internal part talking.
It was saying, “I should have something to say about the past two years. I really should be writing. Why can’t I pull this together? It should fit in with the rest of my life. Make sense of the past two years, Caitlin. Then you can move on.”
This whole dramatic storyline that I was living, but couldn’t see until that moment.
I was IN it.
But the meditative exercises helped me SEE it as an object. Then I could work with it.
“What if we don’t need to do any of that? What if the past two years are never going to make any sense in the storyline of Caitlin? What if no one cares or no one needs to hear it? Or it’s just done?”
Then I felt the release and openness. The drama stopped.
But to be clear - it’s not like I then had some “major productive moment.”
I didn’t then proceed to write 500 words or anything like that.
It just opened up a doorway.
And I needed space to integrate that.
Sometimes it’s these simple moments that change the trajectory for me.
Now I have freedom. What will emerge? I don’t know yet.
To be continued.
How is your writing going?
Workshop 1: One easy shift in how you approach time and your calendar
is available as a replay to paid subscribers here.
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