Writing transformative stories

How to connect and inspire

Thank you to everyone who has been reading these posts since I started writing here in February 2023; and to all the new subscribers who have joined this month. Welcome! 🙏🏼

It’s great to see so many of us want a more mindful approach as we head into another unpredictable year. I am so grateful to everyone for reading and commenting, and for the beautiful community that we’re building together.💙

I have some great new things planned for 2025 as this newsletter and my mindful writing teaching continues to develop. Starting in February, all subscribers will get the new Mindful Monday writing prompt posts that will go out every week; and paid subscribers will also get an additional post on the first Sunday of the month, which will be adapted from my sell-out Year of Mindful Writing course and also draw on elements of my brand-new Well Writer course. The combination of the two can help us thrive as writers, as humans, and as members of the human family living on our amazing planet with all the plants and creatures we share it with. I hope you enjoy them! 💙

By CravenA

What we say, what we think, what we write, what we intend can change the world.

This may seem to you like quite a bold/deluded/naive claim. But I really believe, no I know, that it is true.

For many years now I’ve been learning about how powerful we are. Power we have been programmed by our cultural conditioning to forget. Our bodies have the power to heal themselves, and our words and thoughts have the power to create the reality we want.

The intention experiments carried out by Lynne McTaggart, which I have watched in several documentaries over the past decade, show how the power of group meditation sending peace and love has reduced violent crime rates in the areas they focus their intention on. Her latest documentary, The Power of Intention, brings together lots of the experiments she has done over the years. When I was watching it earlier this week, I knew in my heart that what I have been saying for the past few years about how the stories we tell can change the world, is true. I am now pondering on how to test this in the way Lynne has tested her intention theories. Anyone that wants to share any ideas with me on how they think this could be done, and/or wants to get involved in doing it with me, would be very welcome to!

When we think about the news programs that bring us endless stories of violence and despair, the plethora of novels and films and TV shows that tell stories of murder and war and vengeance and hostility, then we look around at our world, it shows that the stories we’re telling, and the ones we are told, are mirrored in the reality we are collectively creating. This is not the reality I want. I’m sure it’s not the one you want either. So as we head into a new year, I am going to be doing all that I can through this newsletter, through my courses and workshops, and through the literary journal I publish, to start bringing more and more stories that unite us to the world. I hope you will be joining me in doing this with your stories too.

Whether we’re writing fiction, memoir, essays or journalling, our intentions behind our words matter. Which is why such a big part of my teaching now is not focused on the technicalities of writing but the why of it, the reasons we’re writing, who we are as writers, and what we want our writing to bring to the world. I want mine to bring compassion, love, togetherness and understanding. How about you?

With a whole lot of love,

P.S. Lynne McTaggart is running a live peace intention experiment on 1st February that I am taking part in. Join me in doing what we can to bring more love and peace into the world.