How Writing a Novel Can Surface Repressed Memories
TW: sexual assault and childhood sexual assault
Fiction writing comes from our subconscious, where our imagination is. And guess what else is in there? Trauma!
I teach writing students and coaching clients that a book idea comes to you because of something it wants to heal in your subconscious through the writing process. In this episode, it's my turn to share, very vulnerably, about how I know this to be true.
My novel, Sister Earth, was based on a dream, and a passing reference a friend made to a repressed memory. A year after writing the novel, I discovered in an energy healing session that I, too, have a repressed memory. I didn't know I was writing an allegory to my own childhood trauma.
The good news: When we write, we heal.
Bookmark this episode for a time you're ready to go deep as hearing personal stories tends to activate healing in the listener.
If you've got an intuitive nudge to write a book, record a podcast, or otherwise tell your story for your own healing, I'm here for you.
Ways to work with me:
Join my writing group Vocal Oracles for accountability and subconscious healing
Explore 1:1 writing coaching or energy healing
