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FREE Live 90-minute Write to Heal class and 20-page guide with prompts, recordings and more to support your healing journey. 

When I was studying writing in college, my personal essay class was my favorite. I’d already been journaling for almost a decade, so I understood the power of exploring life experiences through the written word.

Journaling wasn’t immediately helpful for me. In my younger years, I often wrote to ruminate, beat myself up, count calories, or otherwise reinforce patterns that didn’t support me. But as I worked through childhood trauma in therapy and through other approaches, my writing gradually became healthier.

Instead of dwelling on the negative or obsessively analyzing myself, I began challenging my perceptions, reflecting on what I was learning, noticing patterns, and tracking my growth. Over time, this helped change how I saw myself—and allowed me to rewrite the story I was living.

This is why I’m drawn to writing programs that go beyond journaling alone. Writing can be powerful, but many of us need guidance and structure for it to actually support meaningful change.

If you’d like to explore a more guided approach to writing, I highly recommend this free offering from Tiny Buddha contributor Nadia Colburn. Her free 90-minute Write to Heal class focuses on guided, body-aware writing practices designed to help people relate to their experiences differently rather than simply writing them out.

It’s a facilitated approach meant to help you slow down, stay grounded, and work with your inner experience in a way that feels supportive rather than overwhelming.

In her upcoming class, she’ll share:

• Scientifically proven benefits of writing to heal
• What kinds of writing heals and what kinds of writing don’t heal
• The mistakes most people make in the healing process, and how to avoid them
• What embodied writing is and how to practice it
• Insights from her own healing journey and her experience working with writing as a tool for healing with clients for over past ten years

You’ll come away with:

• practices to bring together mind and body
• a new understanding of what it means to know your story
• ways to avoid being retriggered in the writing and healing process
• new methods to uplift and support you
• a deeper, more supportive relationship to your story
• greater energy
• tools to improve your immune system, mood, sleep, and more

In this 90-minute interactive class, you’ll also have a chance to ask question and will receive a 20-page guide with lessons, prompts, practices, and recordings to work with on your own schedule.

With two date to choose from, you can pick the time that works best for you: 

Thursday January 15th at 3pm ET/ 12pm PT/ 8pm UK

Friday January 16th at 12pm ET/ 9am PT/ 5pm UK

Can’t make it live? Sign up for FREE to get the guide and recording.

About Nadia: PhD; RYT 200. 

Nadia is the author of two award-winning poetry books and has published essays and memoir writing in more than 80 publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, Lion’s Roar, and The Harvard Review. She holds a PhD in English, taught at MIT, and later left academia to found the Nadia Colburn Online Writing School, where she teaches writing using a holistic, trauma-aware approach.

Her work is shaped not only by years of teaching, but by her own healing journey. In moving out of chronic illness and childhood trauma, Nadia explored many paths—talk therapy, EMDR, somatic therapy, meditation, and other healing traditions.

For a long time, writing wasn’t transformative for her. Like many people, she journaled and found that while it helped her feel less alone, it didn’t necessarily lead to change. That shifted when she began integrating writing with embodied practices and other forms of healing.

In her time teaching writing, she’s helped thousands of students step more fully into their creative voices while using writing as a grounded tool for self-understanding and integration—not as a quick fix, but as a practice that can support real, lasting change.

I’m a huge fan of Nadia’s work, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this wonderful free resource with you.

If you’d like to reserve your free spot, you can sign up here. I hope it helps you unlock a deep level of healing and create meaningful change in your life!