Write S'Mores Journaling Group

Because writing is cheaper than therapy...

quieter than social media...

and far more honest than most dinner conversations.

Writing S'mores is a journaling club with a local Kansas City meet up option. Once a week, on Sundays, I will send you a series of writing prompts via a Facebook Messenger group. Throughout the week, you are welcome to engage with one another, share insights and epiphanies as you work through the prompts.

If you are in Kansas City, we will gather to write, reflect, and be in cahoots with one another every month in my downtown Overland Park office. If you are not in Kansas City, we will hop on a monthly zoom to connect with one another.

This approach is inspired by the tenets of narrative therapy -- as when we write regularly, we strengthen awareness, hope, and page by page...we create new ways of seeing and showing up for ourselves.

Why Writing S’mores is good for you:

Writing slows your runaway brain - our brains are basically a caffeinated squirrel with Wi-Fi. Writing forces us to sit down for a minute and finish one thought before sprinting off to the next shiny thing.
Feelings lose some of their power when you name them - emotions love lurking in dark corners. Writing turns on the lights!
Your thoughts finally have to show their work - inside our heads, every thought sounds convincing. Writing helps us catch catastrophizing, mind reading, and other mental gymnastics before they become reality.
Writing is a gym membership for our brains - every time you write, we are organizing ideas, retrieving memories, making connections, and strengthening neural pathways...without the biker shorts.
You get proof that you've survived things before - the human brain has a terrible habit of forgetting past victories and remembering every awkward thing we have ever said.
Patterns start waving at you - write long enough and we all notice things. The people who drain us. The habits that help us. The situations that repeatedly set our hair on fire. Patterns are hard to see while we are standing inside them.
It gives our worries somewhere to live besides our head - our brain was designed to generate thoughts, not store them all. Writing is like moving boxes out of the living room and into the garage.
We become the author instead of just the character - life happens to all of us. Writing helps us decide what it means. We move from: why is this happening to me? to what story am I creating from this?
It trains our brain to notice what is growing—not just what's broken! Human brains are excellent smoke detectors and terrible gratitude detectors. Writing down moments of joy, progress, beauty, or kindness helps recalibrate our systems.
Every page is a small act of becoming - Writing isn't just recording our life. It's shaping it. Every time we reflect, dream, grieve, plan, forgive, question, or imagine, we are carving new pathways in the brain and new possibilities in the soul.

Writing slows your runaway brain - our brains are basically a caffeinated squirrel with Wi-Fi. Writing forces us to sit down for a minute and finish one thought before sprinting off to the next shiny thing.

Feelings lose some of their power when you name them - emotions love lurking in dark corners. Writing turns on the lights!

Your thoughts finally have to show their work - inside our heads, every thought sounds convincing. Writing helps us catch catastrophizing, mind reading, and other mental gymnastics before they become reality.

Writing is a gym membership for our brains - every time you write, we are organizing ideas, retrieving memories, making connections, and strengthening neural pathways...without the biker shorts.

You get proof that you've survived things before - the human brain has a terrible habit of forgetting past victories and remembering every awkward thing we have ever said.

Patterns start waving at you - write long enough and we all notice things. The people who drain us. The habits that help us. The situations that repeatedly set our hair on fire. Patterns are hard to see while we are standing inside them.

It gives our worries somewhere to live besides our head - our brain was designed to generate thoughts, not store them all. Writing is like moving boxes out of the living room and into the garage.

We become the author instead of just the character - life happens to all of us. Writing helps us decide what it means. We move from: why is this happening to me? to what story am I creating from this?

It trains our brain to notice what is growing—not just what's broken! Human brains are excellent smoke detectors and terrible gratitude detectors. Writing down moments of joy, progress, beauty, or kindness helps recalibrate our systems.

Every page is a small act of becoming - Writing isn't just recording our life. It's shaping it. Every time we reflect, dream, grieve, plan, forgive, question, or imagine, we are carving new pathways in the brain and new possibilities in the soul.