One day you’re riding the high of a professional accomplishment, the next you’re crashing down from a personal failure.
Add in global pandemics, political upheaval, and a constant barrage of information from social media and the news, it’s no wonder we’re all overwhelmed and exhausted.
Harness the power of journaling to overcome overwhelm, work through indecision, and process anything life hands you.
School for Writers team has taken all of our offerings (except VIP coaching and retreats) and put them into one container: our Write Your Friggin’ Book Already™ membership program.
If you’d like access to Journal Through It™ along with dozens of other courses, weekly accountability, and group coaching, join us over in WYFBA.
Because the world needs your story now more than ever.
While the workshop is the best way to transform your life through journaling, this PDF is a great start if you’re curious about journaling but not quite ready for a full course.
As a queer, fat, neurodiverse teenager and young adult, journaling was often the only way I could express my deep thoughts and feelings.
Whenever life got hard – family members with cancer, political upheavals, law school, breakups, coming out – I turned to my journal to process.
After my brother died, I developed a set of journaling tools and practices that have changed my life and kept me sane during the best and worst of times.
When things got better, I found that journaling wasn’t just for the hard times, it was for all times.
Journaling is the one tool that’s helped me build a business, grow my craft as a writer, and level up in every aspect of my life.
Lauren is one of the brilliant maestros. She knows how to direct you to your most powerful story. How to lead you to bringing out the magic in every aspect of your work. I am so grateful for Lauren’s support and guidance … She helped to beautifully weave things together to have the most profound impact. Lauren is incredible at truly stretching us to reach that higher level of performance. Thank you Lauren, so grateful for your guidance.
Lauren is a master in helping you feel comfortable and confident telling your story. With patience and kindness she listened to me talk and then helped me draw out the most impactful and powerful parts of my story.
In everything she does, you can feel Lauren’s passion and love for helping people tell their stories, especially people who are often silenced in our world. I’m so glad I met Lauren and so grateful that she is my story coach and friend.
I’ve had the honor of working alongside Lauren creating different speeches for various topics around the world. One of her super powers is being able to bring out the creative genius in others so that they can express themselves to their fullest!
Spend time with, listen to, or read the words of Lauren Marie Fleming and she’ll do one thing – serve you the permission you’ve been looking for on a decadent golden platter. Her work allows all of us to be unapologetically ourselves, no matter what size, shape, color or flavor we come in. The world needs more Lauren Marie Fleming.
Lauren is one of the most beautifully sincere people I have ever had the gift of meeting. Her experience runs deep, her perseverance is inspiring. Whether dancing in the sunshine or weathering the storm of life, she is a friend and a mentor – her words are music to my soul.
She ignites a tiny spark inside me to fan the flames into the seldom reached corners of my mind rife with insecurity and doubt, making my uncertainties vanish as my self confidence reemerges and I begin to realize my individual potential and accept myself as I am. I am grateful to her!
I’ve gained so much from my coaching sessions with Lauren. She has helped me move from feeling stuck to finding a way forward by offering a wealth of knowledge, actionable steps, and encouragement. Her thoughtful yet direct feedback is refreshing and it has made a world of difference in my life!
I was fortunate enough to participate in coaching sessions with Lauren. Her advice and insight are invaluable. I cannot recommend her enough. If you need direction, an action plan, or encouragement—look no further!
Coaching with Lauren gives me the same feeling I get after spending a weekend with my best friend, building one another up with unconditional love. In just half an hour, I can go from feeling worthless to feeling like I can take on the world.
Empathic and unwavering, with her trademark wisdom, wit and winsome personality, Lauren’s philosophy and tools for healing self-hatred shepherds us into a new mental paradigm.
We don’t gate keep writing around these parts. If you write at all, then you’re a writer. PERIOD.
So if you’ve been called to journal more and/or if you long to find an easy and accessible way to process your feelings, then this workshop is for you.
The whole workshop is two hours long and will include time to practice journaling styles within it.
The systems and techniques you will learn in the program take about half an hour each to implement going forward, and you can use them as little or as much as you want, depending on your journaling needs.
The whole course is hosted on Thinkific, an easy-to-use platform that my students love. You’ll have 3 modules, plus bonus material. The material consists of videos, mp3’s, writing exercises, and text to read. It’s all fun and provides for various learning styles.
We have automatic captions for some of our course material, but not all of it. We are actively working on getting all of our material transcribed to be more accessible.
Our goal first and foremost is to help you make space in your life for artistic creativity. We don’t want you to sit on this program material and never use it.
Deadlines get people to take action and so we’ve implemented the 30-day limit to help make sure you actually take the program and do the work.
If you want extended access to the material, join my Write Your Friggin’ Book Already™ program where you’ll get access to this workshop and many others for the life of your membership.
Because you get instant access to the course material and the workshop link, and because we want you to show up and be held accountable to making time for creativity in your life, we do not offer refunds of any kind.
I am not a trained therapist, so I can’t provide emotional counseling. I can, however, show you the journaling techniques that have worked for me and the hundreds of people I’ve taught online and in-person during my workshops, classes, and retreats. This course is a perfect supplement for therapy but is no substitute for professional help.
If you are in crisis and need of immediate help, please contact the Suicide Prevention Lifeline online or at 1-800-273-8255.
While this current price is a GREAT deal for this high-end workshop, we’ve been broke artists before and understand that many creatives lack access to resources, especially those who come from historically marginalized and systemically oppressed communities.
Which is why we offer 10% of spots in all our programs to people from underserved and underresourced communities who would otherwise not be able to afford it.
On top of that 10% of spots saved for people who would otherwise not be able to afford the program, this workshop is always free to refugees, people seeking asylum, people experiencing homelessness, anyone on permanent disability, or members of any indigienous tribe, including the Kumeyaay, who are the original inhabitants of the stolen land on which School for Writers operates.
While we offer scholarships of free and reduced pricing, we ask that you still pay for your course by passing on a skill you have to others. Share information with your community on social media, teach your skills by writing your book, help a friend in need, pay it forward.
Our scholarships are on an honor system, which means if you say you need one we believe you. If you need a scholarship, you can enter code “journalingforeveryone” to get the program in exchange for paying it forward to someone else in need when you can.
Lauren has a 95% success rate with her coaching clients and an 85% success rate in her programs. Which means this stuff works!
Harness the power of journaling to overcome overwhelm, work through indecision, and process anything life hands you.
