The practise of Writing Unfettered helps to slowly unravel the knotted threads gathered over a life’s living and weave them into a new story … This circle is for you if you are at a crossroads in your life and trying to get your bearings in the new landscape:
Maybe you are muddling through midlife and, sometimes, when you catch sight of yourself in the mirror, you see someone you just don’t recognise anymore. Now you want time to explore who you are becoming in this season of your life.
Maybe you’ve had an unexpected diagnosis, loss or heartbreak and are hiding your sorrow behind a strained smile as life goes on, unchanged, around you. Now you long for room and space to express your pent-up shock, anger, grief, confusion.
Maybe you’re a parent-carer/ caregiver, barely treading water under the weight of it all. Now you’re hungry for respite—a chance to pause … and breathe out—an opportunity to tell the truth of your day-to-day life, the real-real, in a safe, supportive environment.
Maybe that bulging bag of secrets and shame you’ve been lugging around since childhood has grown too heavy to carry in silence. Now your tender truths want witness in a healing community.
Maybe, somewhere along the way, your voice got stifled. Now those untold stories lying frozen in your throat are starting to thaw and want to be heard in a judgement-free zone.
Maybe you call yourself a writer, but it’s been months since you put pen to paper, so you feel buttoned up, the blank page a source of pain. Now you yearn to rediscover the ease and pleasure of writing and get to the heart and bones of what you are trying to say.
Writing Unfettered is an invitation to pause and go on the inward quest. To lay the masks down for a spell and name things as they are—messy, tough, sad, beautiful, joyous, all …
Writing Unfettered Circles are places where magic happens … It’s a simple process: Listen. Write. Read. Witness. Listen. Write. Read. Witness.
Like witches in coven mixing a brew, we gather online. No more than eight of us. This space is intimate. Safe and sacred. There is no judgement here. No critique. No pressure to write well, though we may end up writing ourselves well.
This is a space to come undone. To peel away some of our hardened layers to reach the soft inside. To melt the frozen in our throats and name things as they are. Writing Unfettered helps us loosen our belts a little, breathe a little more easy. We use poems as portals into our writing practise, say ‘yes!’ to the words and the story-threads coming through us in response to them. No more stifling. No more self-censoring. No more self-editing. And somewhere along the way, the ink spilled on the page—our wild-spun words—changes us. Our allowing and noticing and listening true spills over into our day-to-day. More often than not, sharing our brave and naked voice on the page (and in circle) makes it want to live more freely in the world. So it does.
The process is the same each time. The magick, different. We each bring our own spice of life to the table. Our unique blends of love and loss and grief and fears. Of life lived. All is welcome here and all is necessary for the brew. We can’t mix the brew without you. Will you join us?
if you long to share your wild truths in the company of other bravehearts,
no shade, no shame …
if this speaks to you …
if this sounds like the medicine you need right now …
email ‘wild-spun words’ to: angela@thesacredpause.co.uk
to register your interest
*** ENROLMENT OPENING SOON ***
Autumn 2024 (Date TBC)
Writing Unfettered Circle (Autumn 2024)
8 women, 8-weeks (live on Zoom)
Session One: Autumn 2024, 4-5.30pm GMT
(9am PT / 12pm ET)
Cost: £300 (or two payments of £150), to be paid, in full prior to first circle
Session Two: Autumn 2024, 7.00-8.30PM GMT
(12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8am NZDT)
Cost: £300 (or two payments of £150), to be paid, in full prior to first circle
*** ENROLMENT OPENING SOON ***
email: angela@thesacredpause.co.uk
to register your interest
Amanda❤️
“Unspell, with your voice, the tyranny of only the beautiful …”
Ayla Nereo