Take Back Your Life!

Hello wild things,

Real writing, the kind that comes from deep inside, will reveal what you want out of life, what’s missing, what’s in the way. We’ve been so molded from the outside in to conform with the consumer mindset, that we sometimes forget our truer selves live inside and they want something different, something unique.

For me, I had to find a way to get that side of me outside so it could free the rest of me.

Singing helped. Painting helped.

Writing, though, probably helped me the most. It took my life in a different direction, gave me the courage to speak up beyond the word into the voice. Words can rally folks to do the right thing. They speak to their own trapped insides. The voice is the icing on the delivery cake.

Every time I write, no matter what it is, I save my life from being a carbon copy of someone else’s life. Humans do not want to be carbon copies made in school/work factories, we want to be our unique selves. We are animals that need to reclaim our wild sides. We are over domesticated. As the wild lands and places disappear, so does our wildness. Been thinking that’s probably why I write so often about saving caves, Appalachian Mountains, land, water, nature, mustangs, imagination, play, freedom.

Writing has the ability to venture into the deepest, darkest recesses – an internal journey to the center of our being. We go down there and come back out with buckets of self gold to share with the world.

I love offering writing classes because the folks who have the courage to sign-up begin to get in touch with that side or if they are already in touch, they get even more in touch.

For you writers out there, how has writing saved your life?

G.

p.s. Grab Life By The Writing Gusto: Finding Your Life Theme — starts on Monday at Story Circle. Please click HERE for more info.