Daily Nourishment (and Announcements!) for August 1-31, 2025
Please visit the links below for this month’s SDW Daily Nourishment offerings using previous Spiritual Direction for Writers® posts or emails. Enjoy!
Please Note: The links are from the past, so any announcements inside the links are most likely no longer relevant.
And there might be some repeated Pauses, Prompts, and Practices here and there. Repeats are not a problem because every time you return to a familiar SDW Pause, Prompt, and Practice you bring a different version of yourself that’s been formed by all the things you’ve experienced, thought, discovered, gained, and lost since the last time you encountered the them.
Because all of life is the writing life and we are always being formed to make the art we will make when it’s time to make the art we will make.
Here are a few announcements that are definitely relevant for the coming days and weeks:
>>> Here’s a list of current SDW offerings
>>> We have recently added some standalone Narrative Writing workshops with Tanya Davis to the calendar. Learn more and register here.
>>> NEW(ish) PODCAST: All of This & More with Charlotte Donlon >>> The fourth mini-season is coming soon, featuring conversations about Charlotte’s work and writing with her 20-year-old son, Brady.
August 1: August Again with Virginia Woolf
August 2: Sitting with the Poetry of Helen Hoyt with Guidance from Lauren Winner
August 3: We Can Be Who We Are
August 4: Literary Tea
August 5: Toni Morrison and the Writers and Artists Who Have Formed Us
August 6: Time Moves around Us and Our Kitchen Tables with Guidance from Dani Shapiro and Joy Harjo
August 7: The Secret Symmetry of Our Souls
August 8: Read Your Life (Again)
August 9: The Art of Seeing with Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe
August 10: Joy and Sorrow Together
August 11: Objects of Grief
August 12: On Eulogy
August 13: Grief and the Body
August 14: Grief and Beauty
August 15: The Gift Will Shine
August 16: Go into Yourself
August 17: Is There Any Other Way?
August 18: Release What No Longer Serves You with Guidance from Katie Rouse
August 19: Asking the Way with Guidance from Annelise Jolley
August 20: Listen and Respond with Guidance from Nicole Parsons
August 21: Gentle Repetition with Guidance from Nicole Parsons
August 22: Doodling towards Memories with Guidance from Nicole Parsons
August 23: Hope Is Never Wasted with Guidance from Ashley M. Jones
August 24: The Things I Can’t Speak with Guidance from Melissa Febos
August 25: What Is Art for with Lauren Winner
August 26: Figuring It Out with Lauren Winner
August 27: Longer Endings with Lauren Winner
August 28: Strike Some Chord That Goes beyond Words with Lauren Winner
August 29: What It Meant to Us with Lauren Winner
August 30: Start Close In
August 31: More Blank Space
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