Grief Writing Workshop for Women
and a poem + prompt for you
Dear community,
I am hosting an online Grief Writing Workshop for Women on Thursday, November 30, 6:00 – 7:30 PM PST.
If any of the following resonates, this workshop is for you.
You are looking for a safe space to tell the truth about what it's like to be you and live with grief and loss without edit, shame, or fear of judgment.
You do not consider yourself a 'writer' but desire an authentic and supportive way to engage with your grief.
You are curious how writing in a community of women can offer a creative and kind opening to explore your emotions.
You desire more intention, guidance, and focus to kickstart your writing process.
You always feel relief after writing and never regret it. Even so, you rarely do it and would like more accountability for your healing and writing process.
You have supportive family and friends with good intentions, yet you feel alone and misunderstood and desire to be seen in your sorrow.
The Grief Writing Workshop is a cathartic and compassionate way to explore grief and offer a tender release to emotions held in the body.
We bring our own stories, sit and write alone and together, listen and learn from one another, and slowly, over time, word after word, we remember and restore.
Learn to expand your capacity and skill to be with discomfort and the truth of what is without a need to manipulate, fix, or mend your broken heart.
Women feel inspired, knowing their stories offer stability, wisdom, and freedom to be more of their true selves and encourage others to feel the same.
Cost: $33.
Learn more HERE and register HERE, or send $33 via Venmo @Dina-Varellas.
I'm looking forward to facilitating this workshop again, and you will love the healing energy that transpires.
PS. Here's what one woman says about Grief Writing for Women:
"Sharing my words, listening to others share their words of their grief journey as invited by the prompts that Dina gave as optional starting places, was so healing. To hear and hold the emotions of others who read their words in their own voices made me feel like I have a family of women who share common ground, no matter how different the details, and that sharing is a kind of empowerment. The energy of this exchange invites and encourages me to be open to sharing more and more of my stories as valuable. And that my voice, though different than others, is important."
Mary Elizabeth Collins (M.E. Young)
PPS. Are you curious about the healing benefits of writing? In last week's newsletter, Creating a Container for Grief, I wrote about our primal need to belong and the importance of creating a safe space for grief through community support.
PPPS. If you know a woman who may benefit from this workshop and feel called, please share this newsletter with her. I would be so grateful.
To Speak, by Denise Levertov
To speak of sorrow
works upon it
moves it from its
crouched place barring
the way to and from the soul’s hall—
out in the light it
shows clear, whether
shrunken or known as
a giant wrath—
discrete
at least, where before
its great shadow joined
the walls and roof and seemed
to uphold the hall like a beam.
Writing prompts and potential jump-off lines:
To speak of sorrow
Out in the light it