Writing Like Chocolate
The Liberation of Women’s Voices for Love, Joy and Freedom
“Poetry is always at the pulse of the most dangerous and the most daring questions that a nation or the world might face.”
~Amanda Gorman
Women’s writing, whether it is our poetry, essays, books, blogs, posts, anything we write, inevitably speaks to the critical issues of these times because our voices are the voices that must be heard. We are the critical issue of these times. Our natural intelligence, Original Brilliance, our Mother of Medicine perspective, is the laser beam of insight that will turn the tide.
Producing this writing has the taste and the consistency of chocolate. It is stimulating, satisfying, rich, nuanced, and eye-opening. When we write we are ecstatic because our voices have been on the edge of orgasmic release and we are moving over that edge right now. This is our time.
Every woman who finds the courage and craft to speak out is a leader. We know that there are other woman just waiting to hear our words and thereby to write their own. We are instruments of inspiration. We are releasing the dreams of lifetimes for women who have been suppressed and dominated and who will not allow it any longer.
I created writing groups designed specifically for women ready to live in their leadership because I know first-hand the creative engineering that removes the dam that has been holding us back. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence, I know what suppression and domination feel like. I know how creativity lives in silence despite oppression, and how to reverse the habituation of restraint to stand in power. I know from my hard-won life experience how to cultivate self-respect and confidence even after every attempt has been made to strip these away.
I also know from my lived experience how crafting communication evolves consciousness and enhances brain resilience. I know that it is entirely possible to transcend self-sabotage, self-condemnation, minimizing and obsessive downplaying of unique brilliance. I know and I model what it means to live in the center of your own grounded and secure inspiration, flowing with the expression of your destiny. This is what we are meant to enjoy and to deliver. Our service to the world is a celebration of Original Brilliance. We can savor and enjoy the process even during the dark deterioration of the world around us.
I created Writing Like a Medicine Woman because I want women to refine their leadership voices, their beautiful, well-structured articulations of the meaningful systemic, personal, economic and healthcare changes we envision. Whether we want to write memoir, poetry, about parenting or relationships, about healing processes or community organization, meaningful change always starts with us. It starts with us prioritizing writing, prioritizing the development of language, unraveling all that limits us to discover the core of clarity within.
If you decide that writing is a crucial aspect of your life’s path, your leadership, your destiny and your advocacy, join Writing Like a Medicine Woman.
Prompts are developed specifically for your cohort by facilitator Stephanie Mines. They are not merely exercises for any random individual. They are always a stimulus package designed specifically to unleash your writing fluidity, your self-awareness, your understanding of why you must write at this time.
Group dynamics are always oriented towards safety, fearless feedback, deep listening, confidentiality, trust, authenticity, and clarity. Groups result in long-lasting friendships. Books are produced. Poems are published. Essays complete. Substacks are launched. We become a community of the astute and the prolific. Creativity flows in the loving and sensitive hotbed of our mutuality.
Writing Like a Medicine Woman is not just a writing group. It is about relationships, honing insight, crafting electrifying writing, satisfying expression and the fulfillment of doing what you have always yearned to do.
We are eating chocolate and savoring it with each gathering because we are tasting the forbidden fruit of shameless and outspoken expression. We do not apologize for anything. We learn how to validate ourselves. We establish our own integrity. Above all, we voice our truth and it changes the world.
