S2 Writing as Sacred Transformation: Turning Pain into Power

Writing a book is a sacred transformative experience.

Why? Because it changes you.

How? Writing your story expands your perspective on the events that happened and your perception of yourself and others.

When we revisit our stories through writing, something magical happens.

We see more clearly.

The emotions of pain, hurt, fear, shame, guilt and anger that were suppressed resurface.

Writing through them and facing them through our tears, breathing deeply, we welcome them in.

We also release the trapped energy from our bodies.

Writing is a way to face our deepest fears and trauma and to realize how they have shaped our lives.

By facing our deepest fears, we see them for what they are.

false assumptions that have lodged in our nervous system.

So writing is one of the most effective forms of therapy for releasing trauma, with the added benefit of seeing how it transformed us into who we are today.

And we realize that we wouldn't have evolved into the people we are now if it weren't for that experience.

So we have an epiphany of no regrets, becoming aware that whatever happened changed the trajectory of our lives in ways we could not imagine.

Through writing, we truly transform our pain into power by stopping identifying with the assumptions that caused it and in the process, freeing ourselves from the past.

Yes, sometimes this can evoke extreme emotions that feel like reliving the trauma, but it isn't.

It's the burning of that trauma and rising from the ashes like a phoenix.

So many authors have told me that they have probably saved thousands of dollars on therapy just by writing their story.