The Art of Mindful Writing
From "Meditations on Writing" series, Spring 2025
The blank page isn’t empty.
It’s full of noise, pressure, possibility — and, if we pause long enough, presence.
I used to race through writing like it was a fire I needed to outrun. Hit the word count. Say the thing. Make it land. But something always felt... absent. Polished, perhaps, but not quite alive.
It wasn’t until I started meditating that I realised: the pause *is* part of the writing.
That breath before the first word? Sacred.
That moment where nothing comes? Still sacred.
Mindful writing is less about performance, more about relationship — with yourself, with the page, with the truth trying to be heard beneath the noise. It’s not about having something clever to say. It’s about slowing down long enough to let something real be revealed. The pen knows the heart.
Finding the Rhythm Beneath the Words
Every writer has a rhythm — not one you invent, but one you remember. Some people write in bright bursts, sharp and staccato. Others pour like honey — slow, warm, full-bodied. I used to try to mimic the fast ones. But my words always asked for something quieter. Something that breathed.
As I work with clients — ghostwriting books, editing meditations, shaping content journeys — I often sense what's missing is space. Not more adjectives. Not cleverness. Just room for the truth to land.
Writing is not merely a way to transmit information — it is a way to discover what you know, what you feel, and who you are becoming in the process.
A Love Letter to Yourself
Ghostwritten for Faye June
A 30-Day Self-Love Journal
Welcome to Your Love Letter
Take a deep breath in, and as you breathe it back out, land fully in this moment with a feeling of love.
This journal is more than just pages—it is a love letter unfolding, one sentence at a time. It is an act of devotion, a conversation between the you of today and the you who is always listening. Over the coming month, you will write a letter to yourself—one of kindness, patience, and deep self-acceptance. Each sentence you write is a note, a whisper of love to your future self. Over these weeks, the pages will become a collection of affirmations, reminders, and truths—a love letter written by you, for you. A letter that reminds you of your worth, even on the days you struggle to see it.
The Journey of Self-Discovery
You are not here to fix yourself. You are not broken. You are here to remember—to remember that your worth is not measured by productivity, by how much you give to others, or by how seamlessly you fit into the world’s expectations. Your worth is inherent, unshakable, and whole.
Through this journey, you’ll be guided by daily reflections, prompts, and affirmations designed to nurture the love and respect you deserve. You will write not out of duty but out of love. And love—real love—is shown in small, consistent ways. Each day, you will become more able to show that kind of love to yourself.
By the end of these 30 days, something within you will shift. Perhaps subtly at first—a softening, a knowing, a space where criticism once lived now filled with kindness. These pages will hold the story of your self-love, written in your own words, a love letter to the person you are becoming. Small steps, taken with consistency, are how we build anything of true value. And what could be more valuable than the love you give to yourself?
Welcome home, dear reader, to the love that has always been waiting within you. With every word you write, may you uncover and embrace the love story that is yours to tell.
With that love in mind, let’s begin.
Embracing Impermanence
Written for Moments of Space, 2023
Welcome to the second step on the Path, Illuminating Reality.
Having dismantled the illusion of singularity and recognised the wisdom of multiplicity, we now come one step closer to seeing the ultimate truth of how things are beyond the confines of our limited and conditioned minds. We drop the next illusion of permanence to reveal the never-lasting nature of all things.
Impermanence teaches us attention. When we truly understand that each moment occurs only once, we become more present, more alive to the nuances of experience that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
As we’ve seen, all matter is not one singular thing but a collection of pieces made of more pieces, none of which is fixed. All those pieces are continuously shifting and evolving in a dance of impermanence. You can never step in the same river twice. By the time you step in again, or even if you stand still, the river has already flowed past. It’s constantly being reshaped and reformed by new droplets and new matter. The river is impermanent, the river is always new.
Life and all it’s pieces flow in cycles like that river. The sun rises and sets, the moon waxes and wanes; earth revolves and evolves, and always, day turns into night. And each day is new, not the same as before. Nature revolves in this neverending dance of birth, growth, decay, and rebirth. But this cycle is not a circle: the starting point is never the same. There’s always something new. The cycle is a spiral.
When we cling to the illusion of permanence, we create internal struggle; we fear and resist change. But the ever-changing nature of reality makes space for opportunity, melting the seemingly solid block of ice of permanence and allowing it to become fluid. And in fluidity, there is space to flow, grow, and become better. There is hope. We free ourselves from the pain of believing that how things are at any moment is how they’ll always be—we see that what hurts now won’t hurt forever. Impermanence allows for healing and transformation. We can dream, develop, and have goals.
Dropping permanence and embracing impermanence does not mean falling into hopelessness. If all was forever, nothing new could ever be. Without knowing rain, we could never know the bliss of the sun shining through the clouds again. Impermanence grants us the preciousness of each moment, knowing it, too, will pass. It’s only in death that rebirth can occur. Recognising impermanence is to awaken to the limitless possibilities that abound and to gift us an awareness of the preciousness of each new now.