Reclaim Your Joy:
Write about a time
you enjoyed food.
Sunday, September 14th, 2025
1–3 pm PT (4–6 pm ET)
$37
includes recording + prompts
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Raise your hand if you’re a woman over 40 who poured watery skim milk over Special K flakes for breakfast.
Or sat with your fork hovering over a sectioned plastic tray of Lean Cuisine and told yourself you were being good.
Or you drank Tab for decades, even though you hated that weird little aftertaste in your mouth, because you thought it would keep you from — horrors! — getting fat.
Can you still hear these obnoxious phrases chiding you in your head?
Or sat with your fork hovering over a sectioned plastic tray of Lean Cuisine and told yourself you were being good.
Or you drank Tab for decades, even though you hated that weird little aftertaste in your mouth, because you thought it would keep you from — horrors! — getting fat.
Can you still hear these obnoxious phrases chiding you in your head?
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
- A moment on the lips — a lifetime on the hips.
- You can’t have that — it’s fattening.
The problem was
never you.
Or your body.
The problem is that
you were
taught to deprive yourself
of joy.
We were raised in a time when — due to a flawed scientific study in the late 1970s — Americans were taught to be revulsed by meat, eggs, butter, and salt.
You must deprive yourself in order to take control of your life.
Deprive. Order. Control.
Are you tired of that voice in your head that tells you to deprive yourself? Doubt yourself? And disassociate yourself from your joy?
Start writing about the moments when you enjoyed your food.
Write about food? How is that going to help me? I’m not a good writer.
Hear that? You’ve been taught so thoroughly to doubt yourself by this capitalism-as-god culture that you think you don’t deserve to write about a moment of joy in your body.
I should have been smaller.
We've been trained to believe that our experiences were never good enough to deserve peace of mind.
That persistent voice in your head is a liar. It's holding your joy hostage.
You don’t even know what joy feels like anymore.
I’ve got news for you.
If you allow yourself to slow down and savor what you are eating, joy is there, waiting for you.
Writing your real stories — especially the ones about food joy — can be your path to freedom.
Hear that? You’ve been taught so thoroughly to doubt yourself by this capitalism-as-god culture that you think you don’t deserve to write about a moment of joy in your body.
I should have been smaller.
We've been trained to believe that our experiences were never good enough to deserve peace of mind.
That persistent voice in your head is a liar. It's holding your joy hostage.
You don’t even know what joy feels like anymore.
I’ve got news for you.
If you allow yourself to slow down and savor what you are eating, joy is there, waiting for you.
Writing your real stories — especially the ones about food joy — can be your path to freedom.
I'm offering you a path to that mindful practice.
This is not your high school English class.
- No red pens. No grades. No weird power dynamics.
- Just real women writing about their joy, together.
- We’ll weclome each other. You’ll warm up with a practical craft technique you can use to write something that sounds like you.
- We’ll read short pieces from writers like Padma Lakshmi, Francis Lam, and Kiese Laymon for get you inspired.
- I'll share my personal method for starting a piece of writing that will keep your grounded and moving your pen forward.
- We'll write together for 15 minutes. No trying to impress. No overthinking. No fear.
- Afterward, if you’d like to share what you wrote, we'll listen with curiosity and no critique. And if you don't feel like sharing anything, we get you There's no need to perform here.
- The next day, you’ll get a replay video and fresh prompts to keep you writing.
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All this for only $37. Oh, and here's what students are saying.
Shauna’s workshop helped me find my love for words again and remember why I enjoyed writing. Shauna creates a wonderful supportive space for you to explore and play with your own stories and ideas.
— Jackie
Working with Shauna has been the source of a major, radical healing and reframing of my thoughts over these last few years. My negative self-talk has slowly shrunken up.
—Nancie
These writing workshops have fed my soul so much. I want to keep writing.
—Christa
Click the button below to gain access to the live online workshop, the replay and the writing prompts.
In just two hours, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to begin writing your joyful stories and start seeing yourself in the good light.
