In developing your writing practice, you need to be persistent, but also be kind to yourself.

It doesn't need to just be at the typewriter, frantically freaking out.

Be generous with how you define your writing practice. Let me let it out, let it out.

Let it out.

Hi, welcome to Let It Out, a podcast hosted by me, Katie Dailbout.

In honor of the write kit launching, I wanted to do a themed episode on writing with my friend, who I met in the most kismet way, which you'll hear at length in this conversation. But it's a fun conversation

about writing, but it's really just a mechanism for us to discuss routines and emotions and

friendship and

creativity.

The latest kit from Let It Out.

And if you're new here, I have been making these Let It Out kits, which are self-study,

personal growing classes, workshops, digital zines, communities, whatever you want to call them. They're really

robust courses, really at their core. And the latest one is the most requested one I've ever

gotten. And it's about writing, writing for both emotional wellness, journaling, and writing to share.

I'm unsure how I'm feeling until I start writing.

It slows me down enough to notice my emotions.

And for nearly a decade now, writing for myself without the intention of anyone reading it,

journaling has been my most consistent self-care

routine. And what I love about journaling is that it's free. You can do it anywhere at any time.

And it's something that I started doing on a whim in about 2012 when I was 21 and no one recommended it to me. I just intuitively started writing down

my real thoughts and emotions and eventually I found it cathartic and I began recommending it to

other people prescribing prompts for specific situations they were coming to me with.

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