Dashboard

Part 1: Turning Resistance Into Refuge

• 1.1: Introducing Unavoidable Writing
• 1.2: Who Am I To Teach This To You?
• 1.3: What You’ll Learn
• 1.4: Why This Course Exists
• 1.5: The Unavoidable Writing Approach
• 1.6: How Shadows Manifest in Writing
  • 1.6.1: The Fear Shadow
  • 1.6.2: The Guilt Shadow
  • 1.6.3: The Shame Shadow
• 1.7: Prompt: Give Your Avoidance a Voice

Part 2: Defining Avoidance

• 2.2: Is Avoidance Our Nature?
• 2.3: The Upside of Avoidance
• 2.4: Why Writers Avoid Writing
  • 2.4.1: Creative Work is Soul Work
  • 2.4.2: The Arts and Social Shaming
• 2.5: The Four Conditions of Avoidance
  • 2.5.1: Avoidance is Chosen
  • 2.5.2: We Avoid What We Know
  • 2.5.3: Avoidance is Happening Now
  • 2.5.4: Avoidance Alters Your Instincts
• 2.6: How Avoidance Shows You the Way
• 2.7: Prompt: Why am I Avoiding My Writing?

Part 3: Make Writing Your Home

• 3.1: How to Learn from a Shadow
• 3.2: The Root Shadow: Fear
• 3.3: Maslow Meets the Chakras
• 3.4: Writing as a Source of Stability
  • 3.4.1: Pause Goal-Setting
  • 3.4.2: Nix Word-Counts and Timers
  • 3.4.3: Keep Your Words Private
• 3.5: Establish Your Writing
  • 3.5.1: Curate Your Space
  • 3.5.2: Uncover Your Stories
  • 3.5.3: Practice Attunement Journaling
• 3.6: Becoming One With Your Writing

Part 4: Write Your Desire

• 4.1: Connecting Feeling to Self-Expression
• 4.2: The Feeling Shadow: Guilt
• 4.3: Write to Source Your Direction
  • 4.3.1: Embrace the Language of Want
  • 4.3.2: Write to Explore, Not to Explain
  • 4.3.3: The Art of Pouring
• 4.4: Emerge Alongside Your Writing
  • 4.4.1: Source Your Voice
  • 4.4.2: Seek Your People (Don’t Go It Alone)
• 4.5: You Already Know Your Path

Part 5: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

• 5.1: A Sneaky Little Question
• 5.2: The Identity Shadow: Shame
• 5.3: Write to Commit to Yourself
  • 5.3.1: Calling Yourself a Writer
  • 5.3.2: Keep a Compliments Journal
• 5.4: Be Seen (For, and Beyond, Your Writing)
  • 5.4.1: Choose ‘Being’ Over ‘Busy’
• 5.5: Create a Container for Your Practice
  • 5.5.1: Tap the Vibe for Your Writing
  • 5.5.2: Source the Shadow
  • 5.5.3: Set the Practicals
• 5.6: “What Have I Been Avoiding Lately?”

Bonuses

• Case Study: Jean from Seattle
• Author Interview: Jen Louden, Best-Selling Author
• Author Interview: Danielle LaPorte, Best-Selling Author
• Author Interview: Marcello Di Cintio, Award-Winning Author
• Author Interview: Sarah Kathleen Peck, Writer & Podcast Host
• Author Interview: Hillary Weiss, Copywriter
• Author Interview: Steve Kamb, Author
• Author Interview: Willie Jackson, Publisher and Tech Professional
• Author Interview: Jenny Blake, Author, Speaker and Podcaster
• Author Interview: Ben Austin, Speaker and Coach
• Author Interview: Michael Margolis, Author and Story Evangelist

Student Tools

Course Restart. If you want to restart the course fresh from the beginning, click the following button to reset your course statistics. It will reset all ‘Complete’ lessons and course completion percentages back. Warning, this can’t be undone!