Integrating Self-Care into Your Writing Practice
Hey poet!
Writers are asked to do everything, often at the cost of the work itself.
In this episode, Ravina rethinks self-care as part of the writing practice, not separate from it.
Through boundaries, reduced pressure, and small shifts, you’ll find a more sustainable way back to the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
📔 Today, I Affirm by Alex Elle
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Self-care isn’t separate from your writing practice—it’s how you return to it.
03:00 — Burnout vs. “Writer’s Block”
Exploring different forms of burnout and reframing writer’s block as exhaustion and lack of inspiration rather than a true block.05:00 — Let Your Practice Change
Taking on less, setting boundaries, and allowing your creative process to shift as you slowly return to writing.08:45 — Releasing Pressure, Returning to Purpose
Letting go of timelines and expectations while reconnecting to what it means to be an artist.09:45 — Prompt: What Is Rising?
What is bubbling up inside of you—rage, love, inspiration, belonging—and asking it to come forward.10:30 — Prompt: What Needs to Be Unearthed?
If you could dig something out from within you to release more fully, what would it be and why?11:00 — Tools for Support
Using prompt decks and guided journals as grounding tools to sustain a creative practice.
