If you want to write and you’re not writing, there are simple tools that can help. This group isn’t about academic writing per se, but it will support your academic writing by helping you reduce resistance and build a more consistent creative practice. It’s about getting in touch with the throughline, the inner vein of creativity that runs through everything you do. In this group, you will: Move out of “stuckness” and reduce the resistance that keeps you from writing Build a

A “practice” of any sort frees our minds and bodies from having to decide, over and over again.

For the last several months, I’ve been waking up early to make some more time in my day, and one of the things I’ve been doing during that precious early morning time (when it is just me and my coffee) is reading The Artist’s Way . I first read it back in 2018, I think, and I’ve come back to its 12-week creativity recovery program several times since then, always working through it by myself. Image by Andrés Molina via Unsplash If you’re an academic, you’re probably heading

When it comes to writing, people feel a great deal of shame around not doing it. There are many reasons why writing doesn’t necessarily receive our best time: it can feel hard, the rewards associated with it are delayed, there’s no one sitting right in front of us expecting us to write (whereas it can seem like there is no end of people knocking on our proverbial doors with requests for our time). The good news is that a small series of conscious shifts is often enough to all

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