a creative writing workshop
Writing Warmth for Bodies: Illness, Pain, and More
Are you in a continual dialogue with your body to find the energy and wellness to fuel your creative spark? Join Sarah Peyton for a six-week course to support your movement towards well-being through creativity and warmth.
In these challenging times, anger and rage can be powerful catalysts for personal and collective change. But how often do we connect our rage with love, and understand the deeper motivations behind our emotional responses?
 In this six-week writing workshop, we will be challenging the dominant paradigm that says that warmth is not important, and exploring the lived experience of self-warmth for our health and well-being.
It’s not that becoming warm with ourselves suddenly gives us the young healthy bodies we once had, but rather that as we learn to have warmth for our bodies in their current manifestations, we begin to be able to express gratitude and appreciation for how hard our bodies have been working to overcome the effects of historical and familial trauma. And this moves us towards well-being, no matter how much we are contending with illness and fatigue.Â
Over the course of six weeks, we’ll learn about the neuroscience of fatigue and illness, particularly the impact that fatigue and illness has on the brain and our brain functioning. We’ll also dive into the impact of the relationship that one’s brain has with its mother, and how that impacts the body and health. Through unconscious contract work and time travel, we will explore contracts that take us out of the present moment, contracts that make us self-hate or self-criticize, contracts that make us believe our better will never be good enough, and contracts that make us scorn and criticize our bodies instead of being warm and appreciative with them.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how warmth can change our relationships with our sick bodies, and how that change opens up doors to creativity and well-being. You’ll leave with practical tools for unlocking more freedom in your writing and creative work, having more access to gratitude and celebration, and experiencing greater enjoyment in life.Â
Experience what’s possible when you explore and create within a resonant and welcoming space that honors the uniqueness of your truth and your voice in this six-session series dedicated to creative process and exploration.
This 6-week course runs from July 8, 2025 – August 12, 2025
We will meet online from 8:00 AM-9:20 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM BST (convert to your time zone here)
Where?
The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).
When?
This 6-week course runs from July 8, 2025 – August 12, 2025, with classes meeting each Tuesday morning from 8:00 AM – 9:20 AM Pacific Time (To convert to your time zone, please click here)
What to Expect:
A warm space that creates room for the flow from thought into expression, support and resonant feedback, all in service of unblocking your creativity and more fluid expression. In each 80-minute class, we will:
- Begin with a free writing period
- Explore the relational neuroscience connected to the disgust circuit, and how it impacts the ability to express and tell our truth.
- Offer a resonance exercise or demonstration to support the movement toward free expression
- Continue with a second free writing period
- Create space for sharing and resonant responses to each other’s work
The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones
What You'll Learn Each Week:
Week 1 – July 8, 2025:Â How ILLNESS and Fatigue Impact the Brain
Week 2 – July 15, 2025: The Importance of Warmth for our Bodies and Wellness
Week 3 – July 22, 2025: Releasing Contracts that Remove Us From Our Bodies
Week 4 – July 29, 2025: Trauma, ILLNESS, and PAIN
Week 5 – August 5, 2025: Upgrading Mom’s Lifelong Impact on ILLNESS, and PAIN
Week 6 – August 12, 2025: Celebrating The Relationship with the Body
Who Is This Course For?
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
Get assistant support during classes – experience resonant support from experienced practitioners when you need it during class times. Often, this work can have unexpected depth and touch on deeply held subconscious awareness and pain. Getting support when we need it most helps participants to integrate, regulate, and have a felt experience of the transformative power of resonance.
Cost
$125-$400
- This course is set up so that participants can contribute what they can.
- Please choose a variation that considers your financial resources as well as the contribution you would like to offer Sarah and her team.
- The standard tuition for this course is $300. If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.
Register
Writing Warmth for Bodies: Illness, Pain, and More
$175.00 – $400.00
*PLEASE NOTE:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
- This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
About the Instructor
Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.
