BREAK:::BLAZE:::BURN -- 40 DAYS OF FEARLESS, OUT OF BOUNDS WRITING
Beginning June 6, I will be pairing up with with author, therapist, and astrologist Sherene Schostak for a 40 day digital creative writing workshop designed to break through your emotional and creative blocks.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.― Maya Angelou
Through guided Jungian journaling and active imagination techniques, tarot-inspired writing prompts and meditations, we will tap into your limitless creative spark. Instead of cursing the Mercury Retrograde, we will work the magic of this – the messenger god in his very own sign!
This is a time to change our stories and thus change our lives. You don’t have to be an aspiring writer in the literary sense to benefit from this Project 40. We all have a story inside of us that needs to be told. We all have journals collecting dust. We all know the powerful worlds that even a minimal amount of writing can open up for us…and yet, why do we constantly put it off, neglect it or feel hopelessly blocked?
Use these 40 days and 40 nights to take those old ideas, manuscripts and other forgotten gems off the back burner and get writing! This P40 is designed to keep you inspired and on fire! Daily discipline can be sexy and inspiring when thrown into the alchemical alembic of incendiary creative fire. For 40 days and 40 nights we’ll keep each other inspired to make writing a living, breathing, passionate ritual!
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
― Toni Morrison
Do you talk yourself out of writing with thoughts like:
I have nothing original to say…
It’s already been done…
Writing is for academics or “writers”….
Who reads books anymore?
Who do I think I am?
What if my writing is boring, stupid or lame as hell?
You’re not alone! We are here to be your personal muses, cheerleaders, midwives, oracles.
I will share my uncensored experience as a professional writer in real time– what I’m working on, and how I’m making it work, despite lack of time, my own self-destructive tendencies, insecurities, and all the other things that cause writers to stop writing. I will include quotes, music, writing prompts, questions for journaling, ideas for rituals, and guidance from the tarot and crystals and whatever other omens show up on the path. Sherene will share her seventeen years as Jungian analyst to help you uncover some of your deepest writing/creative blocks by getting to the source of your fears, insecurities and complexes such as the inner “animus” critic that keep us from unleashing our true voice.
Option 1::: $330 (limited to first 10 who register)
40 Days of Guided Emails with Journaling Questions, Meditations and Rituals.
PLUS
60 Minute Private Jungian Session with Sherene:
This session will combine Sherene’s seventeen years of working with private clients to help obliterate creative blocks by harnessing the limitless powers of the unconscious. By delving deeply into the unique patterns in your natal horoscope, she can uncover particular parental complexes, family legacy/ancestral patterns, and other complexes, creative blocks and shadow material that keep you from your fullest potency of self-expression.
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60 minute Private Consultation with Juliet Escoria.
In a one-on-one SKYPE/FACETIME session, I will offer personal feedback on up to 10 pages of your writing. I will also give you personalized help and guidance on both your writing life and any issues you have related to addiction, self-destructive or obsessive traits and mental illness. For part of the session, I can also use a combination of tarot and other divination work.
40 Days of Guided Emails with Journaling Questions, Meditations and Rituals Only.
Juliet Escoria is the author of BLACK CLOUD, which was published by both Civil Coping Mechanisms and Emily Books, and named a best book of the year by Dazed, Flavorwire, Salon, The Fader, and more. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in places like The Believer, Vice, Guernica, Electric Literature, and Hobart. She has a BA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside & an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brooklyn College. She was born in Australia, raised in Southern California, and currently lives in West Virginia.
Sherene Vismaya, M.A. is a Jungian Analyst, astrologer, and metaphysician in private practice in NYC for the past seventeen years. She specializes in depression, shadow work, anxiety, creative blocks, eating disorders, and relationships. She is the co-author of Transpersonal Astrology: Explorations at the Frontier, Surviving Saturn’s Return: (McGrawHill) and The Fate of Your Date (Chronicle Books.) She holds a Master’s Degree from New York University in Clinical Psychology, a Masters in Developmental Psychology from Pace University and advanced graduate work in psychoanalytic studies from The New School and ISAP, Zurich. She is the resident astrologer for Elle Magazine: UK- Netherlands-Turkey. Her work integrates the subtle body/psyche with the physical body through different healing modalities including dream analysis, authentic movement, astrology and Polarity Therapy.
YOU RECEIVE:
*Daily personal emails that are created on that particular day itself (nothing is pre-baked or half-baked, as it would lose the essence of tapping into the powerful messages of that particular space and time–and thus lose the power of synchronicity so fundamental to the magic of Jungian therapy).
*A system designed to bust through any laziness, blocks, and other BS that keep you from going beyond the normal 10% of mediocre consciousness and self-awareness.
*Daily probing questions that make you stop and reflect in ways that create lasting transformation.
*A powerful collective of kindred souls seeking radical transformation and willing to do the hard work in order to uncover the limitless potential and authenticity buried in the unconscious.
*Accountability partners on a daily basis to keep you inspired and staying on top of your inner work.
*Stopping and expanding time instead of the feeling that another month just flew by without any noticeable change in your life.
*A sacred container built on seventeen years of research and private practice with a classically trained Jungian therapist and astrologer.
*40 Days of powerful tools you can use and re-use for the rest of your life that will totally transform your sexuality, your relationships and most importantly your Self.
*Daily astrological guidance and reflection on the collective unconscious influences as revealed by the current astrological weather.
TO PURCHASE // FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO HERE.(Note: There’s been some trouble accessing the site on a PC. If you can’t get the site to work, email shereneschostak[at]gmail[dot]com and she will be happy to send you an invoice.)
