Renew your
connection to your own body.
Remember your
inherent belonging to the animate earth.
Revitalize your
words, voice, & writing practice.
Welcome you wondrous creature.
You with your story caught in your throat, on the edge of your lips, tingling your fingertips into sharper prints. You who knows stories are alive and words=medicine. You who can’t wait a moment longer to use and loose your voice—that wild, astonishing music that belongs to you alone. You: an irreplaceable part of the chorus of life. May you and your story find sanctuary here.
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Love letters and notes to share with you the latest in Elemental Writing offerings, prompts and practices, spells and speculations, updates on what I’m writing and making, and reminders of writing as a wholly embodied act of a wholly embodied being.
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It’s elemental, my dear writer. You don’t write alone. You write with the water and fire and earth and air, all of the elements within and around you. You write with the four-leggeds and winged ones, the ones with fins and tails and claws and fangs. You write with the moon. In Elemental Writing, these are our guides, allies, companions.
There is no body like you, and there are so many bodies with you. Nothing is separate. Writing is an embodied experience, a flesh-blood-bone-muscle-sweaty devotion that cycles like the seasons. No part of the cycle is better than any other. Play is essential. The sacred is everywhere.
Elemental Writing
DIY Courses
A self-directed, virtual word quest to rewrite the story of you.
A Write-amin to unleash the goddess-sized voice within you.
A Write-amin to recover and rediscover the joy in your writing and in you.
Meet Jen
Let’s start with the most important stuff: I’m a weirdo. I’m not all that interested in the mainstream. Side creeks and tiny tributaries are so much more compelling. The flow less traveled, if you will.
I don’t fit easily into one category or into preordained categories in general. I’ve always been too strange for the normal people and too normal for the strange people. As a writer and teacher (I prefer facilitator), I don’t identify as academic or literary, although I have an MFA in creative writing and an MA in theology. Binaries bug me. Frankly, they’re not natural. We are all, each of us, an ecological community, that is, a biome. We’re not isolated individuals. We’re not this or that. We’re all of it, part of a complex web of life.
And there’s simplicity in the complexity.
As a writer, facilitator, mentor, and editor, it’s my role to honor that complexity and interconnection.
Chances are, if you found your way to these words, you too are a weirdo. Please know that my favorite people are always the weirdos, and that you, in your entirety, are most welcome here.
Connect 1:1
Sometimes the symbiosis you need is not in a group, but a pair, as in you and me. If the group or hermit vibe aren’t the nourishment you need right now and you’re longing for some personal attention, and support, I’d love to explore how we might work together.
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Are you longing to reconnect with your own writing rhythms? The moon knows the way.
Elemental Writing: Moon is your own personal lunar retreat. A luscious e-book including prompts, practices, a moon phases/writing phases resource, ritual, and within it all, an invitation to deepen your relationship with la luna and yourself.
