a creative writing workshop
Writing Warmth for ShameDo your self-doubt and shame keep you from creating? Join Sarah Peyton for a transformative writing workshop exploring how shame keeps us hidden from ourselves.
It’s not that becoming warm with ourselves suddenly restores us to pristine and glowing access to energy and well-being, 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.
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 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.
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.
We will meet online from 8:00 AM-9:25 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM BST (convert to your time zone here)
Where?
When?
What to Expect:
- Begin with a free writing period
- 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 2 – September 2, 2025: Shame vs. Guilt, and Alarmed Aloneness
Week 3 – September 9, 2025: Trauma’s Role in Shame
Week 4 – September 16, 2025: : Broken Fields and Shame
Week 5 – September 23, 2025: : Shame and Our Reductive VisionÂ
Week 6Â – September 30, 2025:: Imagining our Healthy Shame
Who Is This Course For?
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
Cost
- 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
- 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.