Vulnerability and Community

Hello beloved reader,

I hope you enjoyed the first interview in the series of writers writing about spirituality and re-claiming the Divine Feminine, and a special thank you to those who re-stacked and responded in the comments.

I’m deeply grateful not only to the authors who are participating in this series, but also to you dear reader, for your interest. I’m beyond thrilled to be curating this for you.

And in this post I want to share something about my own journey as a writer.

In 2013, after chanting a mantra for courage in a daily spiritual practice I’d committed to while going through interfaith seminary (which you can read more about here and here) I heard the call to write.

I met a writing teacher (who was of course also a writer) who signed a contract for her book to be published by one of the “Big 5 Publishers.” I was impressed. After I finished my MFA, I asked her if she may be interested in being paid to give me feedback on the manuscript I’d been working on during the MFA. Sh…