Surf lessons, stage fright, and owning my own shit. If you've never heard of cymophobia, it's an intense fear of waves, and it's time for me sort it out.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cb4bv-128d466 So many of Rose’s students struggle with the concept and practice of meditation, and it could just be because of poor teaching methods or an untethered regime. In this podcast Rose explains how a good meditation regime can benefit not just us as writers, but us as people.    Suffering and silence are the two magic ingredients to becoming a better writer. It was Aristotle who taught us that pity, fear and catharsis are integral to every compelling story. But is that the case for us as people, and as writers too? And how can meditation help us with integrating

One week before we left for India, I got back from my doctor armed with various antibiotics and some vague advice. ‘You might need to just surrender to it when it happens. Get to a local doctor. They’ll know what to do,’ he had told me.

Rose, founder of HeartWriting, has bundled up her obsession with authentic creativity into a series of Central Coast and online workshops that are designed to quell your fears and open your creative heart.

Listen, writer – stop thinking about what you think your audience needs to hear.⁠ Just write the truth from your heart.⁠ If you're not writing from the heart, it's not your truth. ⁠People can sense whether something is written from a truthful or egoic place, and⁠ authentic writing comes from a place of love – when you honour what you deeply need to say and you can express that truth easily.

Enjoy this 20 minute meditation which will ease you into your highest creative state. Afterwards, watch the words tumble effortlessly across the page!

When we’re not connected to our hearts – when we’re not loving ourselves with the depth that we yearn to experience from a significant other – then we are missing out on the richest, most infinite well of creativity that we could possibly be drawing inspiration from.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-artas-11fde49 The start of 2022 has been challenging. But it’s time to reclaim those heart-centred practices that bring us back to our highest self. In this short reflection, Rose discusses how she has become consumed by her own dark [months] of the soul this year and how she’s seeing the light of inspiration again. In this podcast, Rose reminds us of the simplicity of the breath and the power of creative community.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t8r5g-1209546 When you’re a child, innocent and in love with the world, you experience the lower, more creative brainwave frequencies. As you grow up, it becomes harder and harder to drop down into that delicious creative state. But you CAN find your way back there. Anytime. Just place a hand on your heart. And breathe. ⁠Our heart is the most intelligent organ we have. The heart conducts 60 times the electricity, and 5000 times the electromagnetic energy of the brain. So by meditating, while connecting deeply with the breath and the heart space, we can literally alter our brainwaves. This