HeyJaredAFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
Writing through the wreckage and the reckoning—the time I grew up in a meth lab and other uncomfortable truths. And teaching the somatic writing practices that make it possible to stay with the hard story.
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Letting Fear Speak - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay (opens the original)
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Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into today’s Write the Hard Thing LIVE.Each week we gather for a small ritual of grounding, writing, and telling the truth on the page—together. We begi… Read more
It’s Not Writer’s Block (opens the original)
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Time Is Not a Mouth (opens the original)
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How Do We Write the Hard Story Without Reliving It? (opens the original)
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Yesterday, I sat down with writer to talk about what it took to finally write a story she had carried—and silenced—for forty years.Jo’s essay, “If Nothing Happened, Did It Happen?” asks what happens when a child experiences something she cannot fully understand, then spends decades telling herself it wasn’t a big deal. We talked about what the body remembers, what shame keeps hidden, and what becomes possible when we stop forcing our way into the hardest stories and learn how to
On Writing the Hard Thing: If Nothing Happened, Did It Happen? (opens the original)
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