Write into the deeper layers of your lived experience
Explore a single experience, or trace the stories that shaped a life — through a guided, one-on-one writing process.
Some experiences stay with us.
Some memories continue to surface years later.
Some periods of life shape us long after they happened.
Writing offers a way to revisit what we have lived through and discover what it still holds.
Perhaps there is a particular experience you want to write into. Or perhaps you want to trace a life through a narrative of defining moments, memories, and turning points.
Whether we focus on a single episode or a collection of stories across time, the work begins by returning to what has been lived and following where the writing leads.
Two ways into the work
A single practice. Two different pathways.
Episode
For a particular experience, memory, relationship, or transition, you want to write into more deeply.
Collection
A guided life-writing process for tracing the moments, experiences, and memories that shaped a life—and continue to echo through it.
How I Came to This Work
Writing became my way of finding language for experiences I could not fully grasp while they were happening.
At the time, I was navigating my mother's illness and death, my grief before and after the loss, becoming a parent, moving between states, and pursuing graduate studies. Writing became a space to pay attention to myself through all of it, and a way to stay with what I was experiencing long enough to begin understanding it.
What began as a personal practice eventually grew into published research and, later, Narrative-Work: a one-on-one writing practice grounded in the belief that writing can help us better understand the experiences that shape our lives.
Begin with a free 20-minute conversation
A first conversation to understand where you are in your writing, what you need, and how we might begin to explore it together.
