The Initiated Writer: A Year-Long Journey
52 weeks. 52 invitations. A transformational pilgrimage into your writing life and your inner life.

Each week you will receive a writer’s prompt, an active contemplation, and a contemplative action—guiding you through a year-long journey of creative awakening. These practices are designed to open your inner treasure house, deepen your insight, and bring hidden wisdom to light.

This is not about following a particular spiritual practice or creative dogma. You come as you are. Your writing becomes the path, and your Inner Teacher becomes your guide.

The Treasure House Within
Centuries ago, Daiju asked Master Baso, “Where is my treasure house?”
Baso replied: “What you are asking is your treasure house.”
Daiju was enlightened. He urged his friends: “Open your own treasure house and use those treasures.”

This journey helps you do just that—through writing, reflection, and contemplative practice.

What You Will Experience
  • A Year of Prompts & Practices: 52 weekly emails, each arriving Friday morning.
  • Guided Structure: You’ll begin in the South, move through the circle of directions, and arrive at initiation in the East.
  • Third Things: Each week includes a poem, story, or quote that sparks reflection and opens new pathways of meaning.
  • Personal Freedom: No rules. No forced outcomes. Only invitations to explore.
  • Transformation Through Writing: As you write, you discover hidden treasures already within you.

What Past Participants Say"With Julie's mentoring and prompts I discovered a new creative skill that has had knock-on effects that enhance my life—peace of mind, solving problems, understanding myself, learning self-compassion."
— Karletta Marie, Daily Inspired Life

Why This Matters  Writing in this way is not about perfection or performance. It is about:
  • Freeing yourself from habitual or harmful patterns.
  • Awakening your natural meaning-making ability.
  • Becoming grounded in your creative life.
  • Allowing transformation to unfold naturally through the simple act of showing up.
When you let the prompts and contemplations lead you—on and off the page—you enter your own initiation as a writer and contemplative pilgrim.

How It Works
  • Sign up anytime. You’ll begin at the start of the journey, no matter when you join.
  • Weekly rhythm. Each Friday, your prompt, contemplation, and “third thing” arrive in your inbox.
  • Your pace. Your path. No deadlines, no expectations. You follow where the prompts take you.

Begin Your Inner Pilgrimage
This is your invitation:
Be curious. Explore with a generous mind. Notice what arrives.
Open your treasure house. Write your way into it.
👉 Sign up today and begin your year-long journey.
 A Full Year of Creative Transformation for Just $150

That’s 52 weeks of prompts and contemplations—less than $3 a week.
I keep this offering affordable because guiding writers and seekers is my passion, and I want as many people as possible to experience the shift this journey brings. 
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Sidewalk art by Lydia