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Write the Thing You Made Small - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #37
 • Jessy Easton
On Writing the Hard Thing: What Is Consent to a Ghost?
An Essay by Rebecca Woolf, followed by a conversation on process
 • Jessy Easton and Rebecca Woolf
The Shape of a Mother—Hers and Mine and Me
On May, memory, and the blending of roles
 • Jessy Easton
How to Find the Thing You're Really Writing About
Somatic Craft Letter—What a letter to my mother in prison taught me about the stories the body tells when we can't (you’re closer to the truth than you…
 • Jessy Easton
Meth labs, home invasions, the Manson cult, and the way love shapes and breaks us
Table of contents for my memoir, The One Who Leaves
 • Jessy Easton

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Who Are You Afraid Will Read Your Story? - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #36
 • Jessy Easton
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The Unexpected Companion - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #35
 • Jessy Easton
29:12
"I'm Fine" - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #34
 • Jessy Easton
25:48
We Wrote About Waiting - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #33
 • Jessy Easton
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I Thought I Had to Bleed to Write My Story
Somatic Craft Letter—Why some stories need to be approached in drops instead of gulps
 • Jessy Easton
Losing Yourself in the Middle of the Work You Most Need to Do
On April, writing retreats, holding cells, and why voice is never where you think it is
 • Jessy Easton
She Was a Drug Dealer, a Thief, an Inmate. She Was My Mother
What it means to be held by someone who also broke you
 • Jessy Easton
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Somatic writing community where we write the hard thing from a place of nervous-system safety
The Fear-to-Flow Framework
A Grounded Approach Writing *With* Fear and Getting Your Truth on the Page
AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
Writing through the wreckage and the reckoning—the time I grew up in a meth lab and other uncomfortable truths. And teaching the somatic writing practices that make it possible to stay with the hard story.
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