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)

Waking Up App (Sam Harris)

Shtisel (NYT article)

Nomadland (NYT article)

27powers.org (Laurie’s website)

Deepening the Conversation Writing Circle (Kathy’s website)

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