Books
The Halfway House For Writers
If you are confident, joyful and productive in your writing life, if you understand your place in the world of writing, if you are happy and carefree when you think of what you have written and what you still want to write, this handbook is not for you.
If you have struggled with insecurity, existential angst, being stuck and feeling unworthy; if you have wrestled with writing that is too crazy, too boring, too shameful, unorganized, or just plain sucks, read on.
This handbook is for writers who are afraid to begin and writers who have begun but are afraid to continue.
This handbook is for anyone haunted by writing, writers who long to write but fear it, writers who are afraid to call themselves writers.
This handbook is the culmination of recurring themes and threads that have arisen in my writing classes again and again and the process by which my students and I have begun to recover from our crippling, debilitating and false beliefs.
This handbook is a guide to rehabilitation for wounded writers.
Surrender Your Weapons: Writing To Heal
Surrender Your Weapons: We have abused and belittled ourselves long enough. We have been our own worst enemies, our own worst critics, the harshest arbiters on Judgment Day. We have ignored and neglected our writing altogether or shot it down in infant form, before it had a chance to take its first breath. The first rule of The Halfway House is to stop, to arrest our masochistic tendencies, and let our work be what it is.
-- The Halfway House for Writers
Of all the lessons I've needed to learn as a writer and a human being, Surrender Your Weapons resurfaces most. Weapons take many forms, many of which we wield against ourselves. Judgment, comparison, impossible expectations, perfectionism, doubt, insecurity, destructive behavior, self-sabotage. Surrender Your Weapons began as the first rule of The Halfway House and grew until it became a book all its own. When we surrender our weapons, the truth begins to emerge, brave and beautiful, in our lives and on the page.
There's No Accounting For The Strangeness Of Things
There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things is a memoir written in the aftermath of a father's death, exploring how his love, absence, deliriums, and ultimately, his mortality inform the trajectory of his daughter's life. Follow Valley Haggard through her childhood with artists and alcoholics onto a dude ranch in Colorado, a farm in Arkansas, a cruise ship in Alaska, and finally back to her childhood home in Richmond, Virginia. In the course of her vibrant and ever-evolving life, Valley navigates unhealthy relationships, addiction and recovery, child loss and birth, marriage, and the process of healing old wounds in order to create a family of her own. Written in the style of flash non-fiction, the narrative arcs towards connection and meaning in a world torn apart and then stitched back together, even though, sometimes there is still no accounting for the strangeness of things.
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Coaching
THE SPARK SESSION
A 90-minute energy work and writing activation
$288
You’re ready to release the doubt, confusion, intimidation and fear stuck in your body when you think of writing your story, of telling the truth, of answering the call to write rising up from deep within you.
You’re ready to say yes to the deepest part of you, the you that knows you have a powerful story to tell and that now is the time is now to tell it.
I would love to guide you into the process of igniting your inner writing spark, accessing your own subconscious wisdom, and creating with flow from a place of trust and inspiration.
We will draw from our bag of Writing Fire rituals visualizations, chakra activations, guided journeys, intuitive writing prompts, deep witnessing, and strength-based feedback, to create a session especially for you. You’ll leave with prompts, rituals, clarity, and the inspiration and insight to keep moving forward in your writing journey This session is perfect for anyone ready to cross a threshold, ignite their voice, or reclaim a story that has been burning to be written.
THE CREATION SESSIONS
A blueprint + generative writing journey
4 x 60-minute online sessions
$999
This is the work you do when you’re ready to go deeper — when writing becomes not just an act of expression but a form of becoming.
The Writing Fire Initiation is a guided 4-session journey for those who feel a story rising, a transformation unfolding, or an inner voice asking to be honored at last. Through intuitive writing practices, guided imagery, somatic grounding, archetypal exploration, and narrative alchemy, we uncover the truth of where you’ve been and the power of who you’re becoming.
Here, your stories become medicine. Your voice becomes a compass. Your lived experience becomes a mythic arc.
This container is ideal for:
• Writing the story you’ve never been able to tell
• Healing through narrative clarity
• Reclaiming your inner authority
• Naming your desires and next identity
• Beginning a memoir or spiritual/creative transformation
Must be completed in 6 months
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