What Is Your 'Never Again'?

Here's mine + replay

Last week someone told me they showed up to a journal session even though they “didn’t have anything to share.” They joined. They watched other people journal. They left.

Later they sent me a message to add “I just didn’t want to be alone”

That’s the thing about journaling. Most people think it’s something you’re supposed to do alone.

That’s why spaces where you’re allowed to be alone, together, are so valuable.

Why Company Changes Everything

We light a candle at the beginning of every session to honour our intention: we are stepping into sacred time.

This isn’t body doubling in the productivity sense. We are not cleaning bathrooms and folding clothes. In fact, this time is sacred specifically because, as one participant shared that “it’s literally the only time all week where I am not prioritising household tasks or someone else”

It’s the sense that you’re not the only one making time for this. Not the only one working through something. Not the only one learning to trust herself.

Collectively, we have journaled about grief and loss and mothers and all the people who couldn’t love us the way we wanted to.

We have taken turns unearthing the stories we’ve been telling ourselves about the lives we should be living.

Almost every call, someone arrives at some kind of insight, like maybe the real work wasn’t fixing this; maybe it was accepting that.

And we have wrestled with acceptance & wounding, we have redefined failure & success.

And we have made art. A lot of art.

Sure, we could do all of that alone. And we do most of the time, but we can do it together, too and there’s just something different about structured space & time that makes us actually DO IT.

And one trap I want never to fall into again, is the one where I do everything alone. I was honestly out here trying to ‘make it’ on my own so that I could then come to the table, feeling like I had earned a seat.

Never again.

What happens in these sessions

First, we bless the time & space with our intention.

Then, I guide the group through a listening exercise where you will learn to listen with your body, your imagination and your intuition.

Then you go inward. The listening allows you to touch upon something that’s been waiting. Your inner life wakes up & shows you things.

Journaling is about making room for [to quote Mary Oliver] another voice to speak.

And it’s not the voice of your anxious mind ‘shoulding’ all over itself. It’s way more grounded than that and it just…knows what’s good for you.

Poetry as Your Long-Term Therapist

We journey with each poem for a calendar month. So that we may form an intimacy with it.

Same words. Different medicine each time; the process shows you what’s actually happening right now in your life.

The journalling helps you figure out how you think & feel about it and even offers you ideas as to what your next right step might be.

And also, did I mention that we make art?

And now with an added Sunday session, that’s two whole hours a week you can spend working through whatever is going on for you or you can just spend it studying poetry and making art - you decide!

This Isn’t Self-Care. It’s Soul Care.

Every time you sit with your journal, every time you let your hand move across the page, every time you witness someone else doing the same; you’re practicing something radical.

You’re saying: My inner life matters. My healing matters. My voice matters.

And because your healing matters, everyone around you benefits. The best version of yourself isn’t a gift you give yourself. It’s a gift you give the world.

That’s the real value of these sessions. Not that you’ll feel better (though you might). But that you’ll become someone who brings her best self to her relationships, her work, her family.

Someone who’s doing the work.The world needs more healing people. Why not join us?

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