how writing saved my life...
a story of reckoning and redemption...
Well hello my beautiful friends!
It has been a while since I have been writing for publication, there has been so much happening in my world. So many exciting new things, change, growth, the letting go of a lot of what I have previously done, a lot of new opportunities. It has been a lot all of this change. Beautiful change, yes, but so, so much.
And through it all, I write.
Writing is my therapist (if you haven’t already picked up on it). It’s my salvation, it’s my healing. I understand my processing and the time it takes me when I write. It’s the cheapest and most freeing way of therapy I have found. For as a thought rolls around or drops into my mind, I then have a situation or a conversation happen, I run into a friend and we talk about the subject and boom, there is something I am facing, some new insight about myself opening up, some new challenge rises and is worked through.
I used to think I had to hermit to become the best writer I can be, now I have found its not this way, its through my lived experience. Living is the spark that fires up the creativity. Sometimes it’s a random conversation in the surf, perhaps one throwaway line uttered, and then off I go discovering a whole thread that I can weave into story.
Even this piece was born from - what do I have to write about?
Write about your writing… was the answer that came through.
Writing is an amazing tool. To be able to freely express and communicate without interruption, without my feelings being dismissed or shut down, to create boundaries around how much I share. This is pure freedom. I get to edit, expand, unfold exactly as I want to and when.
Most of us do not experience this freedom in conversation. Most of us do not feel brave enough to share our innermost world from fear of being shut down or ridiculed. It’s a process that for me has allowed even the most frivolous of topics to become something beautiful. There is such magic in writing. There is emotion, feeling, expression, visualisation. It can be story or experience or a simple way of observing the world through your unique lens.
There is so much for me to share about writing and how to start your own practice. There is a deep healing that occurs with writing. It’s a moment of your existence and your story captured in time. There is a legacy with writing, it’s tangible, and can be around long after you have left. Imagine your children, your grandchildren, those that have never met you reading your words at some unknown point in the future and it being the exact thing they were needing to hear, a comfort, a knowing, an understanding. How incredible!
Perhaps it’s just to release old stuff that fills your mind, unconscious patterns or beliefs, or perhaps there is a lyrical poet wanting to break free from within you. Whether it is for yourself, or you are wanting to share with the world, I want to encourage you to find your voice.
How it all began for me was during covid. That I was a writer, and I was meant to be writing. How strange I thought. I never really before in my life have been inspired to write in a journal, write a book, or anything really. The irony is how I started was with journalling. Handwritten notes filling pages and pages of different journals. I see now what this practice gave me. It gave me the tools to create this beautiful way of seeing the world. And now, here I am, a published author.
To start with, I wrote about my life, what had happened in the past, I wrote about dreams I had or insights. It felt like I was clearing out all of the unkempt cupboards of my mind. And it does that, the practice of writing clears out all the junk.
How I saw it all was within myself were these layers and layers of trauma, fears, insecurities, ways that I had been, where I had acted the victim, so much of myself I faced in writing about it all honestly, truthfully, and just dumping it all onto the page. What I found after a time, was that all of these thoughts and past experiences no longer lived rent free in my mind. I had freedom, space, calm, peace. And anything new that I did experience did not have to first pass through all these layers of junk before reaching me, or my heart. It opened presence, and the beauty of the moment, it opened my creativity and flow, it brought me a sense of accomplishment, achievement and a true sense of myself.
I have talked in the past about naming it to claim it - and here I saw a way of naming it, claiming it, and releasing the claim it all had on me. It was, and is a revelation.
So, now I offer what I know to you. If you are wanting accountability, reach out, I will keep you going with your practice.
Each day on instagram I will post in my stories a word, a code, a view for inspiration - a way of you having a lil subject kick along for your practice. Click here to connect on instagram…
Being accountable is so wonderful for keeping you and your practice going - it is a cheer squad letting you know you are amazing!
In our daily meditation rooms on clubhouse, the topics we discuss and the meditation offered, write about it, write what you see, what you feel, what insights come through. Click here to join the room…
For those really wanting to take a big bite of life, Rachel and I have opened a three week Academy of Writing program, commencing next Friday 22nd (US) / Saturday 23rd (AUS/NZ) this is a truly amazing program where you will learn the tools to get rid of the blocks between you and your story, learn meditation techniques of connecting to consciousness and being in flow plus editing techniques, creating a safe space for your writing, creating medicine to help and heal from poison and easy ways of channeling - a ‘how to’ channel and your unique way of receiving information. This program is $444AUS (approx $300USD) This will be a small group, focused on you, and practical ways of getting you writing your magic. click here to find out more…
I have also opened up my sessions once more - all online with zoom. So if it is just a quick check in, channel, reading you are wanting, you can now once more book your one hour session here…
I also have opened my student access for the first time in six months, so if you have wanted to work with me in the past, I will take two new students only. If this is you, reach out, now is the time x Individual private students can be four, eight or twelve weeks. click here to find out more…
Please know that I now have afterpay as an option, and if this is something you are wanting to gift a friend or loved one, send me a note and we can organise for you xx
Writing has saved my life in so many ways, imagine… if the freedom you have desired for so long was already at your fingertips - what would you do?
Write baby, just write it all out x and the most perfect time for release is now with this beautiful full moon upon us x write to release, write to call in, your dreams your desires, and remember to go big big big!!!
I love you sooooo much, Nicole xx
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Nicole Forrest is a writer and teacher of consciousness, spirituality, meditation, and metaphysics. She is here to open the hearts of the world through her words and energy. Poetic & lyrical, Nicole makes it easy to understand the complexities of our human existence, and in our greater universe. That unexplainable feeling of knowing, hair standing on the back of your neck, how does the concept of intuition or consciousness fit into our everyday life? How can we harness our infinite power and intelligence? This is Nicole’s playground and she welcomes you with the energy and spirit of the curious child seeing the world through the lens of wonder.
She is also a gifted channel, akashic reader and energetic practitioner based in sydney, aus
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