A new end-of-month writing + reflection workshop is ready for you! 📝
Each month, I share a recorded workshop to help you build a monthly personal check-in practice that’s sustainable, and in community with others.
(If you’re not in the mood for a full video, scroll down for the prompts + timestamps.👇)
You do not have to do this practice at the end of the month! Or on any specific cadence! Or at all! My intention with these is to create a container you can dip in and out of whenever and however you like, that offers the accountability and support to cultivate a consistent check-in practice that keeps you connected to—and in regular conversation with—yourself.
Grab your journal (or your Buddy!) and a snack, and settle in for some guided writing + reflection. And don’t forget to scroll down to the comments when you’re done and chime in on this month’s discussion question!
This month we’re exploring how we might become more attuned to our own desires.
Our theme is building on this post about the pressure to be ‘good’ and how that pressure, real or perceived, can muffle the voice of desire.
Video Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome!
01:52 - Table setting + what to expect
05:15 - This month’s theme: buried desire
09:14 - How can we start to locate our desire?
12:24 - Read the poem: Want by Joy Sullivan
13:49 - Grounding
16:32 - Transition into writing prompt #1
22:35 - Transition into writing prompt #2
29:44 - Wrap-up + invitation to share!
Prompt #1
Spend a few minutes reflecting on the facts of the past month. Make some lists:
What has happened lately? (delightful, heavy, neutral)
What have you been thinking about and/or processing lately?
What can you celebrate? (accomplishments, gratitudes, things you’ve survived)
Prompt #2
Spend some time with one or more of these prompts about your desire:
What does desire feel or sound like in my body?
What would I ask for in the coming month (from another person, from the universe) if I didn’t have to worry about how it sounded to someone else?
What do I want to surround myself with in the coming month, to invite in more pleasure?
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💬 In the comments below, tell us one way you plan to move toward desire in the coming month.
Is it a a sensory experience you want to incorporate into your days? A new routine you want to try? Something you want to move toward? Step back from? Share it below, and let’s give each other the gift of being witnessed and celebrated!
Quick Poll!
I offer these as recorded workshops because I personally always appreciate the ability to pause, move at my own pace, etc. And! I’d love to know if this format works for you, or if you’d prefer a live circle-up-and-write-together situation.
Until next time,
Michelle
How do we locate the voice of desire?