Dear Writer,

This is the first program of its  kind; infusing spiritual ambition with trauma- informed roots, mixed together with nothing more than your mighty quill and fiery will…. . I have spent over a decade studying a multitude of healing avenues. Which includes a Master’s degree in education counseling as well as trauma studies. Along side of academic pursuits, I have attentended a range of creative and spiritual writing classes both one to one and group formats. All of this brought me here, to the center of my motherhood, my womanhood, my neurodivergence, and unexplored spirit wounds. Creative writing broke ground in ways academics and therapy could not tap into alone.

 Through the facilitation of one to one sessions, I worked with neurodivergent, sensitive, and empathic people helping them explore the wondrous nature of their perfectly designed yet complex nervous system. As I learned to manage my own executive function (and dysfunction) I supported others in their soul journey to uncover hidden wounds and illuminate the power within these tender places.

It is an  immersion of a facilitator, a healer, a mentor, a mentee, a shaman, and energy worker… I find  myself in the worlds of art, creativity, poetry and spirituality over and over again. My healing begins with sensation buried down deep within, and rises to the spirit world to be witnessed through writing. Over and over again this very process has revolutionized my most painful inner wounds.

All of this to say, I recognize the profound power of story telling and have arrived here in the epi- center to deliver unique and potent healing medicine through thes shamanic stories.

Truthfully, I have always felt deeply called to trauma studies in both the physical and spirit worlds. s a child, this manifested as a love for all things horror. In adulthood,An attraction to haunted things left me isolated, as the people around me believed it meant a malfunction in my mental health. A I found a college level course in trauma and resilience that shaped the essence of this healing work. And here I am today launching ‘write with Robin’, the culmination of all the parts of me. The place I go to be lost and found. The place where all things can exist. The place where all words, sentiments, fiction, fantasy, and reality collide as poetry in motion. 

 I very much believe we have only scratched the surface of what trauma- informed writing  is and how it shapes our lives. In fact there aren’t many programs out there utilizing writing as a medium to explore tender personal spaces and combine it with shamanic medicine. Despite the unknowns, I trust this modality will work for others just as it has done so for me over the years.

A decade ago,  I started with a one to one style mentor/ mentee  program for children who struggled with anxiety and high stress. It was through that offering I realized how many children saw life through what I call the “trauma lens”. Highly sensitive kids/ people have a perspective that offers depth and understanding that so many people do not. The issue however is, it seems many people struggle to communicate the depth of this understanding ot the outside world.
What made the work even more distressing, were the family and friends who dismissed these realities, or ignored their insights completely. I myself (at the time) didn’t fully understand what I was seeing, but I knew it felt wrong. It was then and there I decided to go on a quest for the “truth”. 

Which leads us to Write with Robin. A program I’ve been working on for over 10  years that combines trauma, spirit, somatic recognition, and writing… But refused to roll out until it was just the “right” elixir. 

And here I am today; executing a massive shift from counseling work to writing. 
Amidst my trauma classes, it finally hit me. I was reading a book written by Charles Figley. It was the very FIRST time I saw the word “empathic” in college level materials, and I cried. There WAS research, and it was here. There was proof that these worlds overlap. Spirit and trauma, they exist like opposites sides of the same coin. There was science to back up spiritual “phenomena” which wasn’t phenomena at all. Empathic personalities were a real thing and Empaths, sensitives, and neurodivergents possessed a specific neurotype that made them essentially more susceptible to problems with high stress, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and so much more.

Finally. Finally all of the pieces fell into place. Even though they teach us “resilience training” in our post- masters, I knew  the intuitive story telling was the missing piece of the puzzle . In order to access our spiritual gifts, we have to acknowledge the way trauma influences our nervous system, and in order to access the deep understanding of HOW these experiences shaped us, we need a way to communicate with our bodies. Yet we are “blocked” from FEELING these things for a variety of reasons. But, mostly because it didn’t feel safe to speak these truths out into the world.

 Through writing I was able to access my soul story and take back the words and sensations stolen from me over the years . But when I was coded at a young age to live in fight or flight mode it was hard to determine when I was speaking from my intuition or my trauma.

And So, I wrote. 
And I wrote.
And I wrote. 
Some days not speaking a word at all.
Others, refusing to put any words on paper. 

And here I am over 10 years later sharing this all with you. Because I believe in my heart when I feel a loss of words or understanding, I can write my way home. 

It is through writing I rebuilt trust in my spirit, intuitive self, and re- establish harmony in my body- mind.

Intuition isn’t an ascension process. It’s not about  accessing the 200th dimension of on some sort of spiritual ladder, intuition is in you. It is in your bones, your muscles and tissues. It is in your heart, body and head working together to reveal truths you’ve been running from your whole life. 

Through writing, we use spirit eyes, spirit ears, and spirit feet to walk our divine path.
In order to act from it, we must acknowledge the stories, the experiences, and the events which YOU’ve  walked and  familiarize yourself with what and who has brought you here..  to this place now. 

I could tell you the way I did that. Certainly I will do so through my own story telling.  I can offer my perspective and bits of advice. But the ONLY passage to your own intuition is through the excavation of your soul book.  It is through you you, it is in you, and it is yours to harness and keep! It is through your journeying you are able to embrace your divinity.

Intuition is your deepes, most wise self. It is an unbreakable bond between you and Spirit. It is unwavering trust in YOU. And the way to build that trust is to reflect on your own experiences and extract the medicine that already exists. Your gifts, your attunements, your beauty, your knowing, your story,  YOUR WAY. 

I believe in this modality so deeply I have dismantled every company I created before it and focused all of my attention on writing.
This program is meant to gently unravel the great mystery that is you.
Together, through community, a bit of guidance from myself, and your own wisdom … we will traverse the inner realms and elevate the medicine that lives within you. All of the gifts, all of the understanding, all of the depth you possess and you’ve been turned away from. Together we will explore it all so you may stand in the truth of who and what you are. 

I am so excited to take this journey with you. Away we go; into the wild unknown to write your wilder ever after.