A Year of Writing Rehab

Starting Tuesday 2nd July · 7pm BST

Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash

“Creativity is an experience — to be experienced, not a thing to be accomplished.” Julia Cameron

If your creativity has gone a bit crispy around the edges — if the words have dried up, the spark’s gone AWOL, or you’re just feeling a little lost — welcome to writing rehab.

This isn’t a course. It’s not homework. It’s not another thing on your to-do list.
It’s a gentle, powerful, year-long return to your creative self.

We finished The Artist’s Way in May and I want to build on what we started.

We’ll be guided by the spirit of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way — her beloved 12-week course for recovering creatives — but we’re taking the scenic route. We won’t exactly follow the course but more take inspiration from her themes. Twelve months, twelve sessions, all rooted in:

• Morning Pages – daily mind-clearing magic

• Artist Dates – solo adventures to recharge your inner artist

• Monthly themes – riffing on identity, abundance, resistance, permission and more

But more than that, this is a chance to get to know each other.
To build a creative community.
To cheer each other on, swap stories, share our stuckness, our breakthroughs, our beautifully messy process.

Because creativity doesn’t just thrive in solitude — it flourishes in connection.

Each month, we’ll meet on Zoom to reflect, recharge, and remind ourselves that we are not alone in this. Whether you’re starting from scratch, coming back after a long break, or mid-flow and needing a fresh spark — there’s a place for you in this circle.

You don’t have to consider yourself a “writer” or “artist.”
You just have to be willing to say yes to that quiet creative voice inside you.

Our first session will be on PERMISSION:

How to Give yourself the green light.
Let this be the month you say yes to showing up, however messy or uncertain. You don’t need to earn creativity — you just need to allow it.

1. What would it look like to fully give yourself permission to create, without needing to be “good” or “productive”?

2. Where in your life are you still waiting for someone else’s approval to begin? What if you gave it to yourself instead?

3. What rules (spoken or unspoken) have you absorbed about who gets to be creative — and do you still believe them?

4. What would you create, say, or try if you truly believed you were allowed to take up space?

5. What part of you have you been silencing or sidelining — and how might you welcome her back this month?

Writing Prompt:
What part of you is longing to be expressed — if only you’d let her?

Come as you are.
No judgement. No pressure. Just a pen, a page, and a circle of kindred creatives.

I can’t wait to begin,
Suzy x