Coming January 5, 2026:

The Writing Cocoon: Where Your Words Transform in Sacred Space

You have stories living inside you that need to breathe.

But when you sit down to write, the cursor blinks at you accusingly. The blank page feels like judgment. And that voice in your head—the one that says "Who do you think you are?" or "This isn't good enough" or "What's the point?"—gets louder than the words you're trying to birth.

Your inner critic is editing before you've even begun.

What if you had a protected space where your words could emerge without performance? Where your creative self could dissolve into formlessness and reorganize into something true?

Welcome to The Writing Cocoon.

This Isn't Your Average Writing Group

The caterpillar doesn't become a butterfly by trying harder or being more disciplined. It enters the cocoon—that dark, quiet, protected space—and surrenders to complete transformation. It dissolves into what scientists call "imaginal soup" before reorganizing into its winged form.

Your writing needs the same conditions.

The Writing Cocoon is a weekly gathering where women drop out of their thinking minds and into their bodies before they create. Where the blank page becomes a meditation, not a performance. Where you're held by other women who understand that the messy middle of creative work is the sacred work.

This is writing as spiritual practice. Writing as embodied wisdom. Writing as quiet resistance against a culture that demands we produce, polish, and perform before we've even had the chance to discover what's true.

How The Writing Cocoon Works

Every Monday, 12-1 pm PT (Virtual)

We Arrive: We begin with a check-in—verbal or in the chat, whatever feels right for you today. No pressure to have profound insights or report on your week's accomplishments. Just: How are you arriving to this space today?

We Drop In: Before we write, we leave the mind and enter the body through guided meditation, body scan, or visualization. This isn't optional—it's the foundation. When we create from our bodies rather than our busy brains, we access wisdom that thinking alone can't reach.

The writing guide for the day (a rotating role among group members) leads us into this embodied space, creating the cocoon-like conditions where transformation happens.

We Create: Twenty uninterrupted minutes to write, collage, paint, move, knit, scribble—whatever form your creativity wants to take today.

The prompt is offered as a doorway, not a demand. Use it if it serves you. Ignore it if something else is calling. This is your cocoon time. Your dissolution. Your sacred becoming.

Try writing longhand. Try typing. Notice what your body needs today and trust it.

We Share: What you created is worthwhile. Full stop.

No disclaimers. No apologies. No "this is probably terrible but..."

You share what you wrote (in full or in a timed block, depending on the day's structure). Then you mute yourself and receive—let the love from this circle wash over your brand-new creation.

We Witness: While someone shares, we take notes in the chat about what we loved. The rhythm that moved us. The metaphor that landed. The feeling it evoked in our bodies. The line we want to remember forever.

We respond to the work itself—treating each piece as a brand-new being that just arrived in the world. A generous gift. Something to be held with care and tenderness.

We keep the personal out of our responses (ours and theirs) unless the sharer specifically invites deeper context. Each creation stands alone, complete, worthy.

We Close: A brief landing, a collective exhale, a return to ordinary time—though nothing about what just happened was ordinary.

Who This Space Is For

You belong in The Writing Cocoon if:

• You're hungry to write but struggle with perfectionism, procrastination, or that voice that tells you your words don't matter

• You have a neurodivergent brain (ADHD, autism, or high sensitivity) and need creative space that honors your nervous system

• You're navigating a major life transition and need to process through writing, but you're tired of journaling alone

• You used to write, but somewhere along the way, "being practical" took over—and you're ready to reclaim that part of yourself

• You're in your cocoon time—that dissolving, formless phase—and you need witnesses who understand this isn't falling apart, it's transformation

• You crave depth, meaning, and spiritual connection in your creative practice

• You want to be around other women who see writing as sacred work, not just content production

• You're done performing and ready to discover what's actually true when you give yourself permission to create from your body's wisdom

This might not be the right space if:

• You're looking for craft instruction, workshopping, or editorial feedback

• You want to critique other people's work or have yours critiqued

• You're seeking a space focused on publishing, marketing, or "making it" as a writer

• You're not willing to engage with the embodied, meditative aspects of the practice

• You're uncomfortable with the spiritual and psychological dimensions of creative work

What Makes This Different

We Start in the Body, Not the Head

Most writing groups begin with craft. We begin with breath. With sensation. With dropping out of performance mode and into authentic presence. This isn't a nice addition to the writing process—it is the process.

Creation, Not Critique

You will never be workshopped here. You will never receive "constructive criticism." Instead, you'll be witnessed with the kind of attention that says: What you made matters. Your voice matters. You matter.

We celebrate what's alive in your work. We name what moved us. We hold your creation the way you'd hold a newborn—with reverence, tenderness, and wonder.

No Productivity Culture Here

You don't have to arrive with output. You don't have to report on pages written or projects completed. You don't have to have anything "to show" for your time in the cocoon.

The transformation that happens in darkness and formlessness is just as valuable—maybe more valuable—than the butterfly that eventually emerges.

Neurodivergent-Affirming Space

• Cameras optional (no pressure to be "on")

• Check-ins can be verbal or written in chat

• Stimming, fidgeting, moving welcomed

• Expectations around focus and engagement honor different nervous systems

• The structure provides enough container to feel safe, enough flexibility to feel free

Investment & Commitment

Monthly Membership: $97/month

• Four weekly Monday sessions (12-1 pm PT via Zoom)

• Access to our private member portal with meditation recordings, past prompts, and resources

• Optional monthly "Mindful Making Open Studio" sessions for extended creative time together

• Community chat for sharing inspiration, asking questions, and staying connected between sessions

Drop-In Rate: $35/session

• Perfect for trying out the space before committing

• Subject to space availability (members have priority)

Three-Month Commitment: $261 ($87/month)

Save $30 and give yourself the gift of three full months in the cocoon. Transformation doesn't happen on productivity timelines—this commitment honors your sacred pace.

Payment plans available. If cost is the only thing between you and this space, reach out. We'll figure something out.

What Women Say About Writing in the Cocoon

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I miss a week? Life happens. Bodies need rest. Nervous systems require flexibility. There's no attendance policy or guilt trips. Come when you can. Trust your own rhythm.

What if I've never done meditation or body scans? Perfect. You don't need experience. You just need willingness to try dropping out of your thinking mind and into sensation, breath, movement. The guides will walk you through it every time.

What if I don't want to share what I wrote? You never have to share. You can write for the full twenty minutes, witness everyone else, and keep your words private. The cocoon honors all forms of participation.

Can I create in ways other than writing? Absolutely. This is called a "writing" group because that's the primary form, but collage, drawing, moving, knitting—whatever helps you access your inner wisdom is welcome.

Is this therapy? No. While I'm a licensed therapist and this space is definitely therapeutic, The Writing Cocoon is a creative practice group, not group therapy. If you need mental health support, I'm happy to discuss individual therapy options.

Join The Writing Cocoon

You don't need to have it figured out. You don't need to know what you're going to write about or feel "ready" or have published anything or even be sure you're "a real writer."

You just need to feel the stirring. The whisper that says: My words matter. My stories need to breathe. I'm ready to create from a deeper place.

The cocoon is waiting for you.

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A Personal Note on Why This Matters

At 44, when I received my ADHD diagnosis, I realized I'd spent my entire life trying to create in ways that worked against my nervous system. Linear. Disciplined. Left-brained. Productive.

The blank page felt like judgment because I kept trying to write from my thinking mind instead of my body. I kept editing before I'd even begun. I kept performing instead of discovering.

With the help of a few writing guides from the lineage of Gateless Writing, developed by Suzanne Kingsbury, I learned a totally new way to access my creative muse. I learned to drop into my body first—to let the words emerge from sensation, from breath, from that formless space where imagination lives—everything changed. Writing became meditation. Creation became spiritual practice. The blank page became an invitation instead of an accusation.

But I couldn't have learned this alone. I needed witnesses. I needed women who understood that the messy middle of creative work is where the real transformation happens. I needed the cocoon.

That's what I'm offering you.

Not because I've "arrived" or figured it all out. But because I know what it's like to have words living inside you that can't find their way out through conventional pathways. I know what it's like to need space where your neurodivergent, spiritually hungry, creatively starved self can finally just be.

Your words are waiting. Your stories matter. Your voice belongs.

The cocoon is ready when you are.

With deep respect for your creative becoming,

Maggie Evans
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
Fellow Traveler in the Cocoon

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost." —Martha Graham