Witchy Solutions for Your Writer’s Block
Hi Witchy Writer,
Have you ever wished you could finally figure out why you're so blocked with your writing? Why can’t you just sit down and get words on the page?
Like me, when you’re blocked, the first thing you might think is that you’re lazy, frivolous, or procrastinate too much. However, I’m wondering if your block might be something different…something deeper…than that.
It’s so easy to gravitate towards the common criticisms of our work-hard culture when you aren’t making progress on your creative idea, but oftentimes the real reason you feel blocked is deeper than that.
But how do you dive into the depths to find out what your block is and then release it?
In my most recent podcast episode, I share a personal story about discovering a deeper block when I wasn’t making progress on writing a novel. I also offer you three witchy solutions to help you identify and release your own blocks.
If you would love to work through these same solutions with a kind and supportive group, join the summer 2023 session of Enchanted Writing Coven.
This is a seasonal small group program (5 people max), where you will work with magickal practices to help you release writing blocks and empower your authentic flow. The first class is this Thursday July 6, and registration ends on Wednesday July 12.
Have a question? Email hello@enchantedwriting.com.
xo,
Emma
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Transcript
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[00:00:00] Hey everyone, and welcome to Creative Witchcraft for your writing life. I am Emma Veritas, and I am a writer, a writing coach, and a creative witch who is here to help you release your writing blocks and empower your authentic flow. And in today's episode, I will be teaching you some fun and witchy solutions for your writer's block.
Before we get into the heart of this episode, I actually do have an announcement for you, which is that the doors are open to the summer 2023 session of the Enchanted writing coven. This is a small group program that I run every season where we use witchy practices to help you release writing blocks and empower your authentic flow.
This is a beautiful 10 week [00:01:00] program where we meet every week. This season, it'll be Thursday evenings. We meet on Zoom. And this is for you if you would love to join a kind and supportive community of folks who are all wanting to write from the heart. They want to write something authentic and meaningful to them, but they, and you are also dealing with some angst and fear around writing.
So there are some blocks coming up, and our mission is to help you write in a way that feels aligned. Joyful and enchanted for you, even if that looks different from what you were taught writing should look like. So we are here to help you claim your authentic flow, and the first class is Thursday, July 6th, which is just a few days from the day this episode is being published, and registration closes on Wednesday, July 12th.
So you have a little bit of time to decide. If you wanna join us this summer, you can [00:02:00] find out more@enchantedwriting.com slash coven. Or you can actually ask me anything. You can send me an email to hello@enchantedwriting.com if you wanna talk to me about this program. And of course if you're listening to this episode in the far future, you can still go to the coven page cuz we run this every season.
So you can check out enchanted writing.com/coven to see when the next um, season is open. Okay, and one more thing. At the end of this episode, I have a recording of a beautiful testimonial from one of my participants. So if you're really curious to hear from somebody who's taken and been a part of, and been a member of Enchanted Writing, Kevin, then I have a beautiful recorded testimonial that we'll play at the end of this episode.
Okay, let's get into it. Writer's block what's going on with writer's block? What is this [00:03:00] today? What I'm really hoping for you to get out of this episode is to have a better understanding of why your writer's block might not be what you think it is, why it's important to go a little bit. Deeper to understand and uncover what might be blocking you with your writing.
And I'm gonna share with you a list of practices of witchy practices that I use and that we actually use in the enchanted writing coven to help you go deeper to identify your writing block and also to release it so that you can find and empower your authentic flow. Let's begin with a little story time.
So when I was around 10 or 11 years old, I started writing stories, fiction stories. I wrote these really funny, cute little stories, which I still have. One was called a Private [00:04:00] Girls Detective Agency. I was really into Nancy Drew at that time. So I was really into writing about detective Mystery things.
And I loved it. Right? I had a lot of fun writing fiction at that time, and I think around that time I really got this idea that like I was gonna write a book one day, you know? Like I was gonna write a novel. I was gonna write a book. I didn't have that feeling. People have sometimes described as like a soul yearning to write a book or like a desire to have a whole career as an author, like a vocation as an author, like a novelist.
It wasn't like that. It was more just like, like, I'm gonna write a book one day. This is a thing I want to do with my life. Right. A thing that's gonna happen. And what happened for me was for the next two, three decades of my life, it was around probably in my late thirties. I, every once in a [00:05:00] while would have a story.
I. Kind of fly through me. Like it wasn't something I did all the time. I wasn't all the time writing fiction, but every once in a while, you know, there'd be some afternoon and all of a sudden I'd pick up an idea for a story and I would just sit and write it down. Then I wouldn't do anything else with it.
Right. It would just be like, here's that story that flew through me. That's interesting. I would probably have the thought that I would like to do more with it. Maybe make it into a book, maybe make it into a short story, really craft it. But I, I wouldn't, right? Like I wouldn't follow through past the point of having that really interesting, inspirational moment of.
Writing down whatever cool juicy story happened to suddenly come up. And then, you know, just a bunch of life happened. For me. I was an English major, I did a lot of nonfiction with my English majors, a lot of literary analysis, writing, that kind of thing. Um, when I was in [00:06:00] my mid thirties, I took a life coach training and when I started my business, I started blogging and writing really became like, I would say more of a vocation for me.
When I started blogging, it was something that I was actively doing every week, every couple weeks where I was sitting down to write, and whenever I would do that when I was blogging, I would always begin with nature Connection. I loved and still loved the process of like sitting down somewhere outside, looking around me, and I would always start writing.
By just saying, here is what I see in front of me. There is a tree, there is a bird, there's some grass, there's some water. And from that nature connection, I would connect into an inner feeling inside of me. And something like really interesting would come out. I always felt really like, Kind of empowered and authentic the more I wrote like that.[00:07:00]
So my kind of writing always has to do with like nature connection and that kind of thing. But I still had this thought in my head from when I was 10 or 11 of like, I'm gonna write a fiction novel one day. And I had this real feeling of failure. That I hadn't written a novel, just kind of like, oh man, I'm writing all these nature essays, but I'm not writing my novel.
I had this real sense of like, I'm failing at that. I'm failing at writing. I'm failing at fulfilling this thing that I'm supposed to be doing. So a few years into blogging and writing regularly, I decided that I was totally sick of that feeling of failure, of not writing a novel. And I decided it was time I was gonna write something, anything.
I didn't care. I just wanted that feeling to go away. So I did write a novel. I wrote a children's book that was a very much a nature connection, um, [00:08:00] children's book. It was a really beautiful story, and I had so much fun. Doing the thing I do with fiction, which is getting that inspirational idea and putting it onto the page and just seeing what was there, what was the story.
It was really fun. But the process of actually like deepening the craft of that story, going through it, doing, you know, the editing of it, which is really like, Like a devotional work, right? When you're editing a book, it's like you're devoting yourself to this story, to these characters. You're moving forward with them, you're playing with them, you're moving things around and going deep into what is this story?
What is the meaning of this? All of all this stuff, and the further I went into that craft, the less motivated I became to. Work on that novel, and I did do like two [00:09:00] more drafts of it. I wrote about three drafts of it, but by the end of it, I was really deeply unmotivated. I felt really blocked and I set it aside.
I didn't know what the block was, and I felt like, why can't I just do this? Why can't I just write this book? It was so frustrating. Why can't I just sit down and make myself. Do this thing. I felt like I was unfocused. I was, you know, lazy. I was flighty. I was not committing myself and I felt a lot of shame about that.
But I decided in the end just to let that book go and maybe I had like learned what I needed to learn about it. The experience was complete with the three drafts. Maybe I just didn't need to move forward and I moved on, but I still had that feeling like, I need to write a novel. What the heck? I've got to do this.
So, um, about a year and a half ago, I decided, I, once again, I had had enough [00:10:00] of feeling like a failure that I hadn't written my novel, and I decided to once again, set about just doing this thing that I thought I needed to do. So I picked up an idea, kind of got an idea from the Ether for a novel, and the idea was really fun.
It was really in line with what I like and what, what, what, like brings me joy. It was in line with the kind of reading that I like to do. And I was excited for the idea. When the idea came to me, it just made me feel really buoyant and happy. And then I proceeded to just not write for like six months. So, Like nothing, no nature essays, no fiction writing, like no writing, nothing happened, and it was the same sort of tailspin of what's wrong with me?
Why can't I do this? I'm terrible. I'm a failure. Everything's like not working, and I just am not being disciplined enough. I'm not being focused enough. [00:11:00] That's what's wrong here. About six months into that, I actually started doing the enchanted writing coven. Um, I, I was called something differently back then, but I started a summer writing group that was all about magic and kindling the magic in your writing life.
Because I really wanted the magic in my own writing life to be rekindled like I was feeling So, Down because I wasn't writing at all. I was feeling disconnected from myself. I was kind of overwhelmed by shame and all of this stuff. And I know for me that I need to lead with magic. So, Like magic with a K, which is magic with a K, is like the spiritual practice of magical tools of transformation and empowerment and alignment and all of that.
So I started this group and it was really amazing. We went through the summer together, just doing magical practices to help us with our [00:12:00] writing. And we all felt different at the end. And I kind of started to uncover a little bit about what might be blocking me with this novel, what might be getting in the way.
Um, I started to see little bits and pieces of what was happening. Um, we did the summer session. We did the autumn session. All sort of going deeper, deeper, deeper into what is blocking you. With my writing, I still wasn't really like actively writing, but I was getting deeper into solving the puzzle of what was going on.
And then at the end of the winter season, I had. A very simple but very massive realization about what was going on for me with my writing, which was that actually if I was gonna be really, really honest with myself, I just don't enjoy writing fiction or I enjoy that one. Part of it that [00:13:00] having an inspirational idea, kind of stream of consciousness, putting it onto the page like that is really fun.
But after that, deepening the craft of the story is just not my vocation. And it's not that I'm lazy or just not disciplined enough to do it, like when I was really honest with myself, I could see that actually that just wasn't for me. That style of writing that kind of authorship was really not at the heart of my authenticity as a writer.
And if I looked back over my actual lived experiences of writing, I could see that actually my core vocation as a writer was nature essays, like I'm a nature essayist, nature Connection. Sitting down, writing a short piece that's deeply about nature, [00:14:00] connection and realization and personal development, and.
Beauty and wonder, this is where like I live, right? That's my heart as a writer. These kind of short pieces that are like that. And when I looked back over my life and my personality, I could see how right that was. And when I said to myself, okay, this feels really wild, because since I was 10 I've told myself I'm gonna write a fiction book.
But actually I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to be a nature essayist and that, and I am one, and I have been being one. And my core vocation as a writer is this, it felt like complete freedom, like I could just let go of this huge weight that was on my shoulders, that was on my heart, that. I was living with every day with like my [00:15:00] self-talk that was bringing me down and the shame I was feeling and the sense of failure that I was feeling.
All of that, like in relation to trying to be a fiction writer lifted. Off of me and it felt like complete freedom and also complete joy cuz I could return to doing what I really, really love and enjoy as a writer. And I have been doing that. So I. For the past few months. At first, I spent some time just writing to myself about nature.
I didn't post anything. I didn't publish anything publicly. I just spent time honestly writing in my notes app on my phone and saying, this is what I see. This is what's outside, this is what's happening. And then, um, I recently started a new project. So I've done multiple different blog projects, um, throughout the years.
But I started a new project called, A year of nature and [00:16:00] magic at home, which is on sub stack. And my sub stack is emma veritas dot sub stack.com if you wanna check that out. Um, but I just started it and what I'm doing is two essays a month, one is about. Nature and one is about magic, and it feels so good to be back home where I am with my writing.
It's like, ugh, like I'm plotting a piece about walking barefoot in my garden. I just can't wait to just write about walking barefoot, like, oh, I'm so excited and happy. I wanna tell you all of this because it has everything to do with what I wanna talk to you about, about writing blocks today. Oftentimes with a writing block, it's so easy to take on the cultural criticism.
Like if you know you're living in the US or just in the world at large, it's like capitalism dominates [00:17:00] the thinking. So, Like industrialization dominates the thinking and it's about working all the time without stopping or questioning, right? Like, I had never even questioned that thought since I was 10.
I had a thought, I'm gonna write a book and, and I had never ever questioned it until this year. So it was really easy to take on. The kind of criticisms of, well, I must just be unfocused and that's bad. I must just be distracted and distractible and that's bad. I'm flighty and I'm failing. And so the tricky thing is about writing blocks is you can sometimes think they're one thing when really they're a different thing.
Like, I thought I was blocked. In writing my novel, but really I was blocked with writing my nature essays because I didn't write any nature essays, right? I had [00:18:00] completely given up that vocation. I was actually totally in 100% blocked with that, and the block was that I thought I should be working on this other kind of writing.
Okay, so. I am not telling you that story to tell you that this is what your block is, because the thing is like, I don't know what your block is. Blocks are so varied and so different and so unique to all of us. The thing and message I really want you to take away is that a lot of times writing blocks kind of live in the unseen.
They can be kind of shadowy, like writing blocks can be hard to access and identify and see and know what they are because of the overwhelming beliefs of the culture at large that. If you're not doing something that you think you should be doing, then you might just be procrastinating the end and you're bad for [00:19:00] procrastinating when there might actually be something like deeper going on for you.
And so my work that I do, For myself and for my clients is helping you go to that deeper place to see like what is going on for you? What is this block? What is this thing standing in your way of the thing you really wanna be doing? What is it? And I wanna help you like peel back the layers so you can get to the core truth of what it is.
And from that core truth comes the path to freedom. To be able to release the block and to do something different, right from the My core truth of saying, oh, I don't want to write fiction, like, shoot, I've been trying this. Right? But what came out of that was a newer, deeper understanding of my vocation as a nature essayist, and that the idea of.
[00:20:00] Devoting myself to that craft. Going deep into that craft of nature, essaying makes me feel like that's a train I wanna be on. Right? I want like, I wanna do that thing. Okay. So how do you do that? How do you peel back the layers of your writing block? How do you get to see the truth? So what I'm gonna tell you now and go over for you now, are the witchy solutions are the witchy practices for your writer's block.
And I'm actually going over. What we do in the enchanted writing, Kevin, because over the course of Four Seasons now going into our fifth season, these practices have worked amazing for me. They've worked beautifully for my clients. The transformations they have gone through and seen and embraced are just.
Incredible and amazing. It's kind of [00:21:00] overwhelming what people get to experience when they see who they really are and embrace that. There are four practices I'm going to share with you. They all fall under the category of shadow, shadow work. Um, shadow work is a term that comes from Jungian psychology. I read and studied women who Run with the Wolves by Dr.
Clarissa Cola ez, and actually have another podcast where my friend Caitlin and I did a chapter by chapter study of that. So if you're interested in really deepening your understanding of shadow work, um, you can listen to that. It's called Full Heart Free Voice Podcast. So a lot of my understanding about shadow work really comes from Clarissa Pola, Esther's work, which is Jungian psychology.
Um, I'm not a trained therapist, so I'll just put that out there for you all. I'm a life coach. I'm a trained life coach, and I'm a writer and I'm a witchy person who has been practicing for a long time, but I'm not, um, a therapist [00:22:00] specifically. So I apologize if my understanding doesn't align quite exactly with the analyst understanding of shadow work.
Um, but how I understand it is that shadow work is the process of making the unseen scene with you. The idea is that the shadow is like a place within your psyche. It's a setting where we put things we do not want to look at. It kind of goes into the unconscious or the subconscious, but it's just a place like a metaphorical place within the psyche where where we put things we don't want to see or.
Maybe just can't see. It might not be about not wanting to see. It just might be we can't see it. And so when you hear someone say, that's in shadow for me. What they're saying is, I can't see it. Like I don't know what's happening. And a lot of times the funny thing is [00:23:00] that the thing that you can't see other people might be able to see very clearly and easily, might be very obvious to the outside world, and yet you still can't see it.
And that's the important thing, like your own realization of truth is what matters. It what doesn't matter as much is other people's realization of your truth. What matters is your realization of your truth. So, And that is shadow work. It is about turning within to say, okay, I'm gonna actually walk through practices to help me see what I cannot see.
And this is the kind of thing like I do. When I'm angsty, when I'm in pain, when I'm just like, oh, I just don't like the way how I'm feeling and I know there's something going on in here and I, I can't deal with it, right? I'm ruminating and I'm having thought loops and [00:24:00] maybe can't stop obsessively thinking about something that's bothering me.
Whenever I'm in that state, then I know it's time to seek the deeper truth. It's time to seek the truth that I cannot see and for me in my life. My process of finding freedom in my life and in my personal development has been all about seeking the truth. And a little caveat here is that sometimes with the truth you find, you do end up needing a little extra help and support.
You might want to call in a therapist, a somatic therapist, um, a teacher, a. Guide someone to support and help you through those processes. One big example in my life was when I realized I was an alcoholic in my late twenties and I was like, I'm drinking alcoholically shoot. All of a sudden this huge thing that I wasn't seeing [00:25:00] that was totally obvious to people in the outside world, um, came to me and I was like, oh, this is a problem I didn't realize I was having.
And for this problem, I need to go to like a 12 step group, right? I need extra help for this thing to help me to work through this thing. So sometimes you do need that extra help. Sometimes you can do your own personal development work depending on where you are, you know, with what you need. But that's kind of up to you to decide do I need this extra help or not?
Um, but I just wanna say that before we. Get into it. Just know that what you find and see that's deeper in your writing block might be something easy to deal with. Like for me, it's like, oh, I don't like writing fiction. I had a lot of grief about that, but I could move on. Right. And sometimes it might be something you just need a little bit of extra help and support around.
So here are the four [00:26:00] practices that we do in the coven. So the first practice is intention setting. Um, intention setting is a witchy practice. It's used outside of witchy practices too, but it is a witchy tool. So what an intention is, how I see it is that it is a, Compass point. It's like a direction that you are going in in your life and that you want to go in, in your life.
And usually an intention is set for a period of time. So in the enchanted writing, Kevin, we set a seasonal intention, so there's. This summer, for example, there will be, you know, your summer intention for your writing life. And what that is, is it's a direction you want to move in in your writing life. And success for that in intention isn't necessarily like [00:27:00] completing the goal of your intention.
It's more about like, I'm gonna take any amount of steps. In that direction, and that is success for me. I'm gonna move this way. How this is shadow work for us is that when we set intentions, we go a little deeper. So in the first class, we set our intentions, this is what we want, and in the second class, we really do some deeper work around making sure this is really authentically where you want to go and that it's not.
A direction you think you should go in, but the idea is that you wanna go underneath all the things you think you should do and get to a point of knowing a direction you actually. Want to go in for real, like you want to go in this direction. It's not a direction someone else [00:28:00] thinks you should go in.
It's a direction you want to go in. And this is that first layer of shadow work of seeing the unseen, cuz that alone can be hard to see. So how I tend to set intention, so this is a journal practice that you can do is. I set them for a period of time. So it might be a lunar cycle where I set my intention at the beginning of the lunar cycle on the new moon and it ends, you know, like the day before the next new moon.
Or I set them for the season. You know, with the coven it would be the 10 weeks of being in the coven is when the intention is active. And when I said it, what I like to do is I like to write about, well, what's been happening? So with your writing life, you might sit down and write like, what's been happening in my writing life?
What has my writing life looked and felt like over like the past period. So it would be like the most recent lunar cycle, what has been going on or the last season, what has been going on? So that's the past. And then you look [00:29:00] to the present and you write about what is happening now? What's going on right now with my writing life?
How do I feel today and the present. And then you would do some writing about where do I authentically, I. Or genuinely or actually want to go next with my writing life. What direction do I want to move in this summer with my writing? And you can do a lot of journaling about that, um, to help you get to that place.
And know also that we can release some perfectionism around it. If it's not in the end where you authentically wanted to go, that's okay, because your intention can help you learn that. Like I did set intentions for. I want to write the first draft of my novel, or I want to write the outline of my novel.
But having those intentions is what taught me that I didn't want to write a novel. So even if you know the, it's not actually authentic, that's okay. You just try. [00:30:00] You just make your best guess. That's really what this is all about. So the next practice I want to share with you is, Oracle cards. So Oracle cards are if you don't know what they are, they are not tarot cards, though they are in the same family.
Tarot cards are a particular system of cards, like every tarot deck you get, even if the art is different, the cards will be the same. You know, there's. They're the cups. Actually, I don't do tarot, so I don't know the cards very well, but there's the fool and the tower and like each, each deck of tarot has those specific cards, whereas Oracle cards, each deck you get is different.
Um, and they're really, I. I think, uh, meant to be like inspired by the creator, the person who made that deck. And they usually have themes, like there'll be a deck of animal cards or fairy cards or plant cards, or, you know, whatever it [00:31:00] is. There's like infinite number of Oracle cards out there. And each card usually has a theme, right?
Like each card is a message, so it has an image on it. And then oftentimes there's a guidebook with a description, like a written description of that card and what that card. Might mean for you. And so when you pull an Oracle card to do shadow work, what you do is you ask the question like, what am I not seeing when it comes to writing blocks?
And in the enchanted writing, Kevin, I pull cards for each person when we, when we go through identifying the writing block and I ask, what is blocking this person? From moving towards their intention this season, like what is the block they need to release this summer? And then, um, we go through a process to actually like, analyze and understand that card.
What I always [00:32:00] say is that the card may or may not be the answer, but the card itself is usually a stepping stone to the answer, like it's something that comes through that. Really might be like totally spot on, or it just might be something that breaks you free from the thought loops that are kind of taking over.
Right? For me, it's like when I'm in anxiety. Or angst kind of thinking like I have the same thoughts over and over and over again, and in Oracle card I can pick one and there's like a new thought, there's a new idea, there's a new concept, and I can play around with that concept to see what meaning is there for me.
And this is like, One of the, like the coven members' favorite parts of what we do, cuz it's so interesting and deep and cool to see what kind of cards come forward [00:33:00] and what, um, everyone can discover from the card like what is blocking me. You can pull Oracle cards, you can pull as many Oracle cards as you want to help you see that and help you just break through those thought loops and dive a little deeper.
I do have a whole process for how to analyze Oracle cards, which you can sign up for. I have a free workshop called How to Write with Oracle Cards, so if you go to enchanted writing.com/oracle card workshop and the link will be in the show notes. You can download journal pages and you can learn my whole system for how to work with Oracle cards and kind of go deeper into that.
I think it's a really valuable tool. People get so much out of it, um, when you can work with them in certain ways. So I would say that my main thing about Oracle Cards is that it's not another thing from the outside world telling you who you [00:34:00] are and what to do. Instead, you use it as a connection to your own intuition so you can, there are certain questions you can ask and ways to play with the Oracle cards that help you deepen your own connection to yourself.
So I never like to use Oracle cards as like a, I don't know, as a dogmatic thing, saying, okay, this is what it has to be. Instead, it's more like, let's play with this idea. Let's let it break through our thought loops and help us connect. Deeper in within ourselves. But to teach you all that is a whole workshop.
It's a 45 minute workshop, um, that you can have access to right away when you sign up with your email. So the last witchy practice to help you work with your writer's block is energetic voice healing. This is something we also do in the coven, so what we do is. When it's the writing block unit, we pull cards to see what your block [00:35:00] is.
Um, we also pull a card to see the path to releasing your block, like your path. And then we do an energetic voice healing where I actually guide everyone through this meditation. Um, but today I think I can just tell you a little bit about it cuz it is really powerful and potent. So energetic work, that's really a term, talking about healing, that's done.
On the subtle energy of the body. Uh, so subtle energy might also be called chi. It might also be called universal energy or life force. And so what we do in enchanted writing, Kevin, is I guide you through an energetic voice healing where you visualize your voice, you visualize the block, and you.
Visualize releasing that block down into the earth or up into the sky. Um, this is the kind of thing that I think is really best done with a practitioner, [00:36:00] which doesn't have to be me. Like you can go to a Reiki practitioner, you can go to a somatic therapist. Um, you could look for like, Throat chakra guided meditations, um, online somewhere.
But I think it's great to be guided through this kind of energy healing if you've never experienced it before or know what it is, but it really is one of these witchy practices that can make a huge change for people, especially if you feel like your voice is blocked. Like if you just kind of have a, knowing that the, the metaphorical voice.
Is blocked. Then a lot of times doing like some of this subtle work, it goes into the wordless place inside of you. It can, it can make big shifts. Now I've had people in my classes say that they're, they can feel how open their throat chakras are now and like what this does, um, for folks is for me for sure, like I find myself after one of these [00:37:00] meditations just saying things.
I didn't know, I would say out loud, which is sometimes good and sometimes socially tricky, but it feels like freedom. It's usually like, oh my gosh, there was this thing I've been needing to say with my voice. I. And then when some of that subtle wordless energy that's all built up in there gets freed up, it's like you can say the thing, right?
You can write the thing, you can put your voice out into the world however you want to. And this isn't about like being loud with your voice, it's about being empowered with your voice. So if you. Are authentically like a quiet person. You might find your quietness feels very empowered after doing, um, some energetic voice healing, you might find like, oh, like that was a powerful quiet, right?
Um, so it's not about just being loud and [00:38:00] talking, talking, talking, talking. It's more just about feeling deeply empowered to be yourself with your voice, whether that means. Like quiet, whether that means saying something, but this is really the heart of, of releasing that block and helping you to write the thing you want to write.
Like words start to flow onto the page a lot of times after, um, these healings. Okay, so that is what I had to share with you today. Okay. So just a quick review. So what we have, our intention setting. Oracle Cards and Energetic Voice Healings. That was only three. I said I had four for you, but sorry. There were actually only three.
Some book recommendations for you are Maya Toll's Book Night School, which is. Basically like a practical beginner's guide to witchcraft where she's actually saying like, there are lessons of like, do this now, do this, now do [00:39:00] this. And for sure divination and Oracle cards are in there as well. So if you wanna learn more about Oracle cards, you can totally use a Maya Toll's night school book.
Sarah Gotti Steiner. Hopefully I'm, I'm sorry if I'm not, um, pronouncing her name right, but she wrote a book called The Moon Book. Which is really beautiful. So if you want to learn more about intention setting, that is really a great place to go to just learn about intention setting, learn how to work with an intention over the course of a lunar cycle.
Um, that's a great book to work with. And I don't have a book recommendation for the energetic voice healing, but like I said, working with a local reiki practitioner, kind of having a Reiki session done, letting them know you really wanna work on your throat chakra, um, that could be really helpful. And of course, um, for anyone you work with, you know, you wanna probably do a little bit of research and look at their reviews and, or get a recommendation from a friend [00:40:00] or something like that, just to keep yourself, you know, nice and safe and protected.
Okay? But of course, everything I just described is what we do in the enchanted writing coven, and we would love for you to join us. So, again, if you're interested, that is enchanted writing.com/. Coven. And also if you just wanna talk to me to see if the coven is right for you, um, you can send me an email@helloenchantedwriting.com and let me know your questions.
But mostly what I'm really, really hoping for you is for you to find a little bit of freedom to be able to do that shadow work to go. Deeper into your block to see what's really going on, and what my biggest hope for you is that that feels empowering and freeing for you. The last thing I'm sharing on today's call is a testimonial for the coven from Kim Hamlin Hart [00:41:00] and.
After that, we'll be just ending the episode. So I hope you all have beautiful and enchanting writing lives. Gosh, I have so many different thoughts going through my head and I hope I can get them out in a way that is meaningful. But, uh, this is my third, um, Season with Emma. I started with Courtney in the summer and we've been going through it together and it's just been such an interesting journey.
Um, I have started to see through this process how my writing life is mirroring my, my personal life and the healing that I've been doing personally has influenced my writing and vice versa. And, um, I tend to be a pretty logical, in my head, let's make plans, let's make goals, you know, achievement oriented.
And when I [00:42:00] first started the, the, um, seasons of enchanted writing, I was, I think I was sort of in that mode, but I was trying to be curious about, you know, is there another way to approach this? And through these last three seasons, um, I've really started to lean into curiosity, leaning into intuition, um, trusting the process.
Like instead of being really goal-oriented, like I have to get x amount of words written a day, I'm just allowing it to be a process. And one of the things I love about the seasons of enchanted writing is that, I'm finding, yes, my writing itself might goes through seasons. Like there were, you know, one of the seasons I was much more with, not withdrawn, but more internal.
There was more internal stuff going on and then it moved into a new season and it became more external and just like, um, the natural [00:43:00] seasons. Um, and so it's been really empowering to be able to. Lean into that and to be able to trust the natural flow and trust my natural intuition with writing. Um, and to be okay with being uncertain.
Like, I don't know where this is going. I don't know if this writing this piece is going to develop into anything or not, but just being okay with being in the now and, and writing for the now. And, um, having this small group and getting to know each other and supporting each other and we're all sort of at different places in our writing and what we need and different places of healing and, but it's, uh, just also beautiful and empowering to watch other people on their journey as well as to have that support on my own.
I will say the Oracle cards, one of my favorite things, I was, I'm, you know, one of those people like, [00:44:00] oh, Oracle cards, that's kind of woowoo, but oh my word. They're so much fun. And like I've now got all my own Oracle decks and I just am really getting into it. And it's just, it's such a great way to open up, um, the creative juices in a sense.
Like, cuz we get stuck thinking in these boxes, at least I do. And the Oracle cards and the way Emma uses them has. Really allowed me to kind of step outside of that and, and come up with new ideas and stuff. And when I started in summer, I was working on a memoir. Then I went into sort of nothing like, well, journaling and stuff, which was for the memoir ish.
But now all of a sudden, these last couple weeks I've been working on a novel which. I've never even considered myself a fiction writer at all. And like this stuff is just coming as I'm like, okay, I don't know where it's going, but we're having fun. And so, and that's another thing I love about [00:45:00] this group is Emma just makes it so much fun.
Like there's no, it's not heavy or as serious. We deal with heavy and serious things, but it's always through this. Love and light and enjoyment and playfulness and that has been so important to me, um, both as a writer and in my own personal life. So I'm just really excited. I'm going to obviously keep on taking these courses cuz they're fantastic and, um, love the people I've gotten to know.
And so if you're thinking about doing this and not sure, hopefully, you know, if any of this stuff resonates, I'd say don't hesitate, jump in and do it.