Writing for Emotional Wellness with Katie Dalebout

Monday, November 9 at 4:00pm PST

For nearly a decade, writing has been my most consistent and useful self-care routine. I’m unsure how I’m feeling until I start writing. 

It slows me down enough to notice my emotions. Around 2013, I started recommending journaling to others, prescribing prompts for specific situations.  In 2016, I published a book on the topic, an interactive guide to journaling called LET IT OUT.  Journaling is is simple, free and can be done anytime and anywhere. This interactive workshop will give prompts and practices for getting started with writing for emotional well-being or deepen an existing writing practice.  Instead of just gliding on the surface of your thoughts, writing specifically with these prompts guides you to dig down to the deeper beliefs, opening you up to be your most self-aware and creative.

The workshop will include the prompts I use daily in my writing practice, plus we'll go through a clarity exercise together. It gently guides you to discover the answers within you and supports you to let them out. It helps you organize your thoughts, giving you a deeper self-awareness that you can take with you into other modalities and relationships. 

Katie Dalebout is a writer and podcaster, and the founder of let it out, a community for sharing *soft stories*, the tender tales that connect us. This began in 2013 with her weekly interview podcast which now has over 4 million downloads and in 2019 she started Spiraling, a co-hosted anxiety podcast. Her work centers around writing for emotional wellness and in 2016 she published her first book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling a collection of essays and journaling prompts. She runs a journaling based creative clinic, including self-study introspective “kits ” and leads an online workshop for independent podcasters. Born in the midwest, after living in Brooklyn and traveling she is now in the process of settling in Los Angeles.