About
Embodied Coaching for Highly Sensitive Writers
Welcome. My name is Bridgett.
I help highly sensitive writers who are longing to deepen their writing & creative life—with a coach who understands their journey as an HSP and as a writer.
As a highly sensitive writer & embodiment coach, I understand your experience from the inside and know how to help you in ways that feel authentic & aligned.
Writers who come to me are longing for a resonant space to explore and deepen their work. You might want to improve your craft, feel stuck in some aspect of your writing journey, or simply want someone to reflect your project back to you so you can see it with fresh eyes.
But as someone who feels the world deeply and highly values intuition, gentleness, and a rich inner life, you might be having a hard time finding help that fits who you are, what you value, and how you love to write.
Many writing spaces, from critique groups to workshops, are focused on writing as an outward process, an end-point, a product. Feedback can feel harsh, performative, or out-of-tune with the spirit of your work. A lot of writing advice can feel like it's trying to externalize the power behind your writing instead of deepen your voice from the inside.
As a highly sensitive writer, you probably find yourself craving a different approach to writing & creative life, one that:
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honors the primacy of the inner process
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sees writing as a journey of spiritual integration and understanding
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allows structure and craft decisions to flow naturally from a place deeper than the mind alone
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cultivates the inner life of language
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understands creativity as one expression of the living world
If this sounds like you, welcome.
I created this space for people just like you:
highly sensitive writers who want to craft, refine, and (quite possibly) share their work—but who long to do so from a place of authenticity, intuition, & connection.
How It Works
Embodied coaching combines
embodied inquiry, mindful exploration, & earth connection to help sensitive writers:
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Refine the inner & outer sensing at the heart of creative work
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Unstick creative blocks by engaging new kinds of awareness
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Find & follow "golden threads" in embodied experience
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Create with more ease, vitality, joy, & aliveness
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Unpack unconscious habits & patterns in creative life
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Cultivate a more fluid & trusting relationship with the living sources of creativity in body & world
What makes embodied coaching unique?
Embodied
Working with the body
changes everything.
(Read more)
Integrative
Connecting writing & life creates flourishing in both.
(Read more)
Invitational
Approaching ourselves gently transforms us.
(Read more)
How sessions unfold
Each session is unique, guided by your desired direction and our mutual intuition.
Within this, there are some key foundations:
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We begin by creating a felt sense of safety in which your body, mind, spirit, and the threads of your life experience feel safe, spacious, and welcome.
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We find and follow a thread – some spark of interest, intuition, stuckness, or aliveness that's asking for our kind and creative attention. This might be a thread in your writing or creative process, a thread in the body's experience as we explore your writing, or a thread in your broader life that somehow feels connected to all of this.
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We move gently, respecting the pace and timing of your unique nervous system, and keep following a thread until that tangible moment when something deeper in you opens. In that space, new insights arise, blocks break loose, new ways of seeing-feeling-being open up, and we find ourselves closer to our words, our lives, and our physical presence here on this earth.
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We continue this process throughout the session, finding and following threads in your experience, attending to where they open with kindness, presence, and curiosity.
Elements of embodied coaching
Sessions are playful, creative, and nourishing. Ingredients of our time together might include:
Embodied inquiry & processing
Connect with the intelligence of your living body using awareness, movement, breath, & somatic practices as we explore your writing life. Understand your nervous system in a felt-sense way and learn to intuitively incorporate this into your writing process. Track sensations with playful curiosity and discover the openings to which they lead. Learn to cultivate sustainable creative practice by attuning to your body's messages. Explore ease, pleasure, and flow in your embodied experience of creativity. Welcome your body's comfort and needs into the process of creating.
Mindful presence
Bring present-moment awareness to curiosities, challenges, habits, & desires in your creative process. Cultivate presence with what is in a way that nourishes your writing and nurtures a more compassionate inner environment from which to create. Learn to identify unhelpful beliefs around writing in a kind, non-judgmental way. Play with the possibility that blocks are actually portals to deeper aliveness. Mindfully explore unconscious patterns influencing your creative life. Cultivate a clear seeing that helps you gently disentangle habitual thoughts from what's real & what's possible.
Earth awareness
Explore embodied dialogue & connection with the living world. Use intentional awareness of the elements, other creatures (animal, plant, mineral, etc.), and the thread that connects all beings to ground and vitalize your creativity. Learn to invite elements from dreams, experiences in the natural world, and synchronicities as collaborators in the creative process. Consciously evoke the elements (earth, air, fire, water) in your writing process. Explore abundance, reverence, reciprocity, and gratitude as guiding principles in the natural world and in your process. Invite the world's inherent creativity to infuse your writing.
Attentive dialogue
Discuss facets of your writing life in a present, compassionate way. Incorporate immersive reading and writing to deepen your experience. Welcome individual words to resonate in your senses; play with sound, voice, the way words actually feel as they leave or arrive in your body. Explore how writing can feed a rich spiritual practice in your life. Discuss how creative "cross-pollination" in other practices might enrich your process. Learn to see life itself as creative expression.
Using these approaches, we'll explore your writing from the inside out.
We may be a good fit if
you're a sensitive writer who...
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loves crafting rich, thoughtful, subtle work that yearns toward something larger
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values subtlety, depth, rhythm, and slow unfolding in your work
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senses a connection between embodied language & greater aliveness
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longs for a deeper relationship with the living world in your writing & creative life
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senses that infusing language with aliveness is a way of being as well as a way to deepen writing
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are curious about writing as a spiritual practice & process of inner growth
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sees levity & depth as powerful co-conspirators
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senses that embodied writing that is "awake to its own connections"* can be a transformative force in troubled times (*gratitude to Jane Hirshfield in Nine Gates for this beautiful phrasing)
People who resonate with my approach are...
highly sensitive, old souls of any age, at a potent threshold, longing for a richer existence more in tune with their heart, contemplatives, folks who struggle with the daily grind & yearn to carve authentic patterns of life in tune with their inner rhythms, those who've always felt a bit different, lovers of wildness, and those who appreciate a little joyfulness, zest, & humor with their depth.
Three Ways to Work With Me:
Beginnings:
Single Session
What You'll Get:
A focused 50-minute session to explore an area of concern or desire in your writing life.
Best For:
writers wanting to explore how embodied coaching can help a specific issue in their writing & creative life
$175
Centered:
Three-Session Immersion
What You'll Get:
Three 50-minute sessions to expand and deepen your creative inquiry around one or multiple themes.
Best For:
writers ready to explore a writing issue or desire more deeply, whether that's unpacking a creative block, exploring a craft question, organizing yourself within a project, or something else
$450
Golden Threads:
The First 50 Pages
What You'll Get:
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An embodied, “inside-out” review of the first 50 pages of your book draft
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A clear & kind editorial letter from me highlighting the above
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A 50-minute session to experientially explore your pages
Best For:
writers with a book draft or other large manuscript in process who are ready to have fresh (and kindly :) eyes on your project
$300
Examples of what we explore in sessions
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discovering the heart of a project or piece
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learning to trust your intuitive leads
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unpacking & befriending creative blocks
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gaining greater trust in your voice & process
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choosing whether or not (or how) to share your work
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working with distractions and overwhelm
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navigating challenging material in grounded ways
- claiming the creative processes that most enliven you
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dissolving limiting beliefs around what it means to be a writer
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writing with (not against) big life transitions
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cultivating a compassionate creative witness
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exploring what nourishes your writing
Want to know the origin story behind my
embodied coaching approach?
Click below to hear how discovering "golden threads" in
body, words, & world inspired this approach to helping writers.