Writing Coaching & Editing
With a range of tools and methods, I support people to find and express their voice, heal the hurts in their way and create impactful writing. I offer a unique blend of writing coaching, editing and emotional healing. I weave in the deeper layers of healing and connection that are so imperative to allow our writing to flow more freely and powerfully.
Writing is not only language and technique, but also bringing to life what is inside of us. Editing is not only following the dominant rules of grammar or “improving your writing.” It is supporting you to express yourself in the clearest, truest and most impactful way.
The places where our writing needs attention reflect emotional blocks and fixed thinking in our lives. By emphasizing the transformation of voice and self-expression, our work together helps release stuck patterns in your life as well as in your writing and other creative practice. A key element in my practice is supporting people to heal from the many ways we learn to not fully trust and honor our voices and intelligence, including from the effects of sexism, racism and other oppressions.
I happily work with people with a range of experience in and relationships to writing, from joy to terror to overwhelm. I work in a wide range of forms, from journaling, college or job applications, prose or poetry to essays, speeches, published papers and full-length books, and everything in between.
If any of this feels true to you, working with me can help:
* I feel stuck on or want to deepen a long-term writing project or regular writing practice
* I want help with a specific writing project or application
* I want to write more but feel discouraged and don’t know how to start
* I don’t express myself fully or hold myself back
* I think I’m “not creative,” a “bad writer,” or have “nothing to say” (this is never true!)
* I want compassionate, skilled and experienced editing and writing feedback with a few unexpected insights about myself along the way
Kahlil Gibran wrote, “Work is love made visible.” What love do you wish to make visible through your creative work and words? This is what we are all here to do. It is as important now as ever to speak liberation, truth, and healing into the world. Working with me can support you to do just that.
I work with all forms of writing and welcome all levels of comfort and experience.
Each practice I offer can stand on its own, or can complement any of the other practices.
Testimonials
“Elah is profoundly skilled and perceptive as an editor and writer and was the greatest support in writing my second book. Their deep presence, care and creativity enriched my teaching and supported me to create more meaningful and impactful offerings.” ~ Loch Kelly, nondual meditation teacher and award-winning author of The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
“I had the gift of working with Elah for many of my academic and peace activism writings. Editing is an art and Elah brings to it the most needed qualities. They listen deeply to the music and true meaning of the text. They think with the writer and what we wish to communicate. Elah works fast, but deep, and I hope to keep them as my editor in my future writings.” ~ Yakir Englander, Israeli-American Writer and Peace Activist