INTRODUCING THE OFFICIAL BOOK
of The Intuitive Writing Project—
a creative workbook to support women and girls in
learning to love and trust themselves through writing!
Intuition is our most advanced and empowering intelligence. It is our light in the dark, our clarity in the chaos, our most unerring inner compass. And yet, because we live in an intuition-negating world, it can be really hard to hear it. We are all born creative, intuitive, and immeasurably powerful—and yet, the world conditions us to believe otherwise. The question, then, is how do we learn to trust ourselves, in a world that would rather we didn't?
After a lifetime of journaling and twelve years of leading intuitive writing programs for teenage girls and women, I have come to believe that the single most efficient, effective, and reliable way to reclaim our intuitive wisdom and learn to trust ourselves... is through writing.
The reason writing is revolutionary is because it empowers us to act upon the wisdom of our heart, which is love. And the reason writing works wonders is because YOU are a wonder—and writing reveals the magic that has always been inside of you.
This incredible cover illustration + design was created by my dear friend, Adrianne Kimbell.
After playing with many (many!) different words for the title, the reason I chose the verb “reclaim," as in reclaiming our intuitive wisdom, is because learning to trust ourselves IS a reclamation process. I know this because I spent most of my life not trusting myself. I had to work really heart to reclaim my self-trust. I’m still working on it. But now, wherever I get stuck or confused (which is often), I write about it. It is through writing that I have learned to find my own answers. The same can be true for you!
As you will learn when you read the book, the image of the mostly-submerged pencil is a metaphor for a mostly-submerged iceberg, which is a metaphor for the fact that our intuition is mostly hidden from us—until we start to write. While the process of writing offers no quick fixes—no microwave “popcorn” button we can press to make the magic happen faster—it does work overtime, like rain and sun on seeds, slowing growing new insights and awareness, from the inside out.
What I know for sure is that if you let yourself write, and keep writing, you will discover things about yourself—beautiful, empowering, magical things—you didn’t know you contained. If you’re struggling, writing offers courage. If you’re feeling alone, writing offers comfort. And if you’re looking for answers, I believe you will find them in yourself, in the power of your own words, scribbled wildly across the page.
As I often tell my students, writing turns our pen into a sort of magical wand, revealing the magic that has been inside us all along. It is, in short, word magic.
WHAT'S IN IT?
This book contains the creative, spiritual, and philosophical DNA of The Intuitive Writing Project. This book is intended to be the magic-in-a-bottle version of its magical source, both for those who know me well and those who don’t know me at all. This book offers both creative and practical tools (and lots of writing prompts) to reclaim, remember, and reassert our own intuitive wisdom.
I've designed it to be big (8x10") and colorful (you can see some sample spreads to the right) and it's broken into 3 main sections:
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1. Trust your voice.
2. Reclaim your intuition.
3. Tell your story.
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There's also an appendix at the end, for "Everything You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know About The Intuitive Writing Project," including a very lengthy Acknowledgements section, thanking the many, many people (if you are reading this, you are probably one of them) who helped to make the whole concept possible. Throughout the book, I also remind you keep your focus on your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and to use only the prompts that resonate for you.
I don’t know what lies ahead for any of us, but I know that the more you write, the more you will understand and trust yourself. And the more we all learn to trust ourselves, the more we will be able to trust each other, to come together to build a world in which everyone is cared for and everyone can thrive.
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WHERE CAN I BUY MY COPY?
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Join the email list to receive creative, intuitive writing "prompts" (aka ideas!) to help you find your own answers in your own everyday life—and be the first to buy your own copy when it launches on Halloween, October 31st!
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