The Alchemy of Writing Your Story
Writing Yourself into Being...
When you write your story, you write yourself into being.
Whether in your journal, in a public post on Substack or social media, or in a book.
As you write the words and shape the narrative of your story, there’s a subtle shift on an inner level that can bring your internal frequency into greater resonance with your Higher Self. It’s as if all the nebulous and chaotic ideas that have been hovering around your head get pulled onto the page through your body, taking shape as your story, and that they change your molecular make-up as they do*.
As you wrestle your story into structure, you - yourself - are restructured.
This is not only my experience. This is the experience of pretty much every writer I have worked with. Whether the hundreds of post-graduate researchers I have coached to write their PhD thesis in UK Universities, the visionary writers in my first ever workshops who were exploring the magic of journaling, or the writers of full-length novels, transformational nonfiction and memoir, who I coach in my high-touch one-to-one practice and coaching groups - all of these people have confirmed to me that writing their story has changed them.
Often in profoundly positive and powerful ways.
But it doesn’t always feel like that when you’re in the middle of the process.
The middle of the writing process is like your creative chrysalis. It’s where you dissolve into mush, leaving behind the form you once knew and were verrrry comfortable in - the caterpillar munching on the leaves - and you have no idea what you are becoming or how on earth that transformation might even be possible.
The whole idea of writing your story feels impossible.
Everything you’d previously believed about yourself has fallen apart.
Including the crazy idea that you might actually have something coherent to say, or that you could possibly write a book about it, or that YOU - of all people - knew enough about this suddenly inexplicable topic to call yourself an ‘expert’ in it.
Something fundamental is shifting at a deep and unseen level. There are no guidebooks or signposts to get you through this dark night of the soul. You just have to keep writing and trust that you’re on the right path.
So you do.
And as your story starts to take shape, so you take on its shape in yourself.
Something solidifies in your energy field as you write your way through the confusion, and a much deeper level of your embodied wisdom begins to anchor itself on the page - through you.
It becomes you. As you become it. And something inside you is changed as the story writes its way through your body - all the way from your soul, out onto the page and into the world.
Like the butterfly, breaking free.
As I often say to Visionary Writers:
The book that you are working on is also working on you.
There’s a deep alchemy in writing.
As you write new possibilities into existence, you recode your neural pathways and open your cosmic codes to new potentials.
Culturally and collectively, stories are medicine.
When you rewrite your story, you help to rewrite the world.
Photo by Ranurte on Unsplash
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* Ummmm, or at least - your frequency field. I’m not sure about the actual biochemistry of altering your molecular make up.
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