What if fear is holding you back?

Today, I share my experience and what I learned at the Big Magic workshop, lead by author Liz Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love.

Incredible. Transformative. Powerful. Moving.

Those words only scratch the surface of what REALLY happened in that magical venue called the Friends House in London.

It’s funny, I went into the writing workshop thinking it was all about how to write a book or memoir. But I quickly realized about minute 6 (at which time, I was totally BAWLING my eyes out) into this 5 hour workshop that it was SOOOO much more.

We started the workshop with 2 minutes of silence and deep breathing to center ourselves in the room, slow down our heart beat and truly become present.

She then lead us through the six chapters of the book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. They are: • Courage • Enchantment • Permission • Persistence • Trust • Divinity

As she says, “these are the major necessary emotional components to living a creative life.”

I had no idea we would be doing this deep, soul work as she immediately had us pull out our journals and let Fear write a letter to us, right straight onto our paper.

Here’s how we did it.

Throughout the day, she had us write letters to and from parts of ourselves.

In Liz’s words: “Fear deserves a voice to be heard and acknowledged. Let it sit down at the kitchen table and fully speak. Don’t debate or argue with her, just listen. Just let her/him speak.”

So, the first letter I wrote to myself was this… (and feel free to do the same, using these writing prompts):

Dear Mary,

I am your Fear & this is what I wanted to tell you…

(Go ahead, pull out a pen and paper, set a 7-minute timer and see what comes up and out onto your paper. )

And I wrote and wrote…and the tears came barreling out of my eyes, onto the paper. I just let it free flow out of me without judgment and without editing.

You won't believe what happened next?! To find out, check out the full show notes below.

Show notes available with all LINKS mentioned here:https://thesimplifiers.com/podcast/bonus-011-big-magic/