035 Living a Creative Life with Laurie Wagner
I’m joined today by writer, teacher and creator Laurie Wagner, who helps her students explore their deepest creative stirrings through a process she calls Wild Writing.
Laurie has been publishing books and essays and teaching writing for the last 25 years. She has a gift for holding space in a way that supports her students as they dive into their inner worlds. Along with her Wild Writing classes, Laurie also hosts The Wild Family, a group of writers from all over the world who she works with weekly.
As you’ll soon hear, Laurie has a unique view of storytelling and how to mine those stories to access your inner truth.
We cover a range of topics including:
What it means to live a creative life
How to invite and work with creative ideas
A reflection on the year 2020 including the lessons of letting go, and
How to take the soulfulness of these times as we re-emerge into the world
We end this episode with our Dose of Inspiration segment, where Laurie shares some of the things that are lighting her up these days.
I came away from this conversation feeling inspired – that the depth of emotion and experience of the past year will be transformed and will inform what we create and how we choose to re-engage with the world.
Links:
Tara Brach (author and meditation teacher)
27powers.org (Laurie’s website)
Deepening the Conversation Writing Circle (Kathy’s website)
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