Join our EMW Community with our initial six-week online memoir writing series, Healing Our Way Home. In our once weekly classes, we explore memoir craft in tandem with healing embodiment practices in this sacred, supported, and healing container stewarded by Sherry.

Come sit in a circle with your fellow EMW writers! Bring your questions about process, craft or other aspects of the memoir writing journey and receive support from Sherry + the community. Takes place on the first Wednesday of each month. 60 minutes. Not recorded. For EMW community members only.

Peer Offering! Casual conversations about “filler' words, pet peeves words, expressions and phrases. Bring a drink and word-play! First Wednesday of each month. 60 minutes. Not recorded. For EMW community members only.

Join Sherry + author Anita Kopacz in a spirited conversation on calling in the mystical and ritual into your writing, the power of storytelling for ancestral healing, giving your books time to breathe when meeting roadblocks, and how-to write memoir to read like a novel.

Weekly Writing Circles are for writers who have completed Healing Our Way Home and would like to continue to generate writing in a supportive container. Each weekly circle begins with a short embodiment practice, followed by story readings from participants and time for feedback.

Peer Offering! Take an embodiment break from writing to move your body and breathe.. Gentle chair stretches, guided meditation, or breath-work to support writers. 30 minutes. Recorded + added to video library. For EMW Community only.

Join Sherry for this perfect dose of inspiration! Guided embodiment practice that will lead into a prompt with time to write. Takes place on the third Wednesday of each month. 60 minutes. Recorded. For EMW community members only.

Peer offering! A weekly hour to free write with our creative community. Begin with a short check-in, followed by 45 minutes of open writing time. Session closes with a short grounding practice. Meets every Monday. 60 minutes. Not recorded. For EMW Community Members only.

Peer offering! Bring your writing—new or in-progress on the third Tuesday of the month. Each session offers writers the opportunity to read their work aloud and receive peer feedback rooted in curiosity, resonance, and respect. 60 minutes. Not recorded. For EMW Community only.

Ignorance. Ego-identity. Addiction to pleasure. Avoiding pain. Fear of the unknown. These mind-states are a universal part of our human experience. While challenging to live with, our afflictions do offer juicy fodder for a compelling story!

In this inspiring conversation, Barbara shares how family tragedy both contracts and expands one’s memoir writing, the relationship between crisis and creativity, loss and luminosity, and how life asks us to pause in the liminal spaces to find the art that might just save us.

Peer Offering! Take an embodiment break from writing to move your body and breathe.. Gentle chair stretches, guided meditation, or breath-work to support writers. 30 minutes. Recorded + added to video library. For EMW Community only.

Peer offering! Want to read a memoir (or memoir craft) book a month, then join a group of other memoirists to discuss it? Grab your favorite drink and meet the second Tuesday of every month. The group will poll for a “Pick of the Month” via our Community Page. 90 minutes. For EMW Community only.

What is an Author’s Note, and do you need to write one? In this workshop we will explore the purpose of writing an Author’s Note to accompany your memoir, including intentionality, the varied components to incorporate, cultivating your authentic tone of voice, and why it matters to your memoir.

Peer offering! We lose touch with hunger and satiation cues due to disconnection or the external food rules of the diet culture. When we write from the body, we cultivate a healthier, more intuitive relationship with how we nourish. 60 minutes. Recorded. For EMW Community only.

What happens when a few curious writers gather around a kitchen table in a small coastal village? They begin to write — and something remarkable unfolds. The Power of the Prompt is the story of how a simple writing practice grew into a thriving creative community.

Bring a "flash" story (500 words or fewer) to read and receive live, on-the-spot feedback from Sherry and peers. Feedback will focus on craft, or as per your request. If you don't want to read, come anyway to listen and offer feedback. 60 minutes. Not recorded. For EMW Community only.

An in-depth exploration of the Four Attachment Styles, their challenges and blessings, and how they manifest as coping strategies in our nature. We will discuss how each style “feels” on the inside, and “looks” on the outside, so that we can write more nuance into our characters and relationships.

Food has power. In this generative workshop, writers will begin by mining food-related memories to better understand their own perspectives. We'll explore techniques for rendering vivid scenes, settings, and characters.

An immersive, peer-supported series for writers who have a solid body of memoir writing (100+ pages) and are ready to shape their material into a cohesive book. This program is for writers who are ready to take inventory and architect the structure, arc, and narrative journey of their memoir.