The Story Temple lives here, on Substack. That’s not changing any time soon. But if you know anything about temples, you’ll know every temple has an inner room. A place where the deeper work happens. Where the offerings are held.
Write From the Wound just moved into that room.
It’s now live on Podia. A proper course home where all seven days live together in one place, along with the Welcome Guide, the Tarot and Oracle Basics reference, and the Resource Library. Everything you need to do this work the way it was always meant to be held, at your own pace and available whenever you need to return to it.
I want to ensure you (inner)stand what this course really does.
One of the writers who went through the original version wrote to me after Day 1:
“I have a flowing connection with writing my truth, but when it comes to publishing online, that white gaze thing takes me down. Doesn’t matter that I’m a contributor to a dozen anthologies and have a memoir out.”
She has the credentials. She has the publications. A very real body of work. And the wound was still there, still doing its job, every single time she went to press publish.
By the end of that first day, she pulled the High Priestess, her first time in all her years of pulling cards, and wrote:
“I’ve found HOME. Where I belong. Safe, no turning back, cannot unknown what I’ve always known, have kept sacred and private inside me, hidden for 73 years.”
That’s what seven days can begin to move.
Let me be very clear: this is not a productivity course. There are no word count goals to meet, no writing sprints to keep up with, no advice telling you to block time on your calendar.
Write From the Wound is seven days of shadow work for Black writers. Each day contains tarot guidance, excavation prompts and somatic practices that move the resistance out of your head and into your body where it can finally shift.
The block you’ve been living with is not a discipline problem. It’s not a laziness problem. It’s not an issue of needing better writing skills either. It is a protection pattern. A pattern that was learned and/or inherited, and it’s quietly running underneath every draft you’ve started and stopped.
This course helps you identify and name it. And then begin writing from the other side of it.
If you were one of the first people to go through this journey when it existed in email form, check your email. I sent you something personal.
For everyone else: the door is open.
With love and fire,
High Priestess Lakeisha
Writing is spiritual practice. Reclaiming your voice is an act of sovereignty.
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