So, you want to be a writer?
SUBMERGENCE
A Memoirist’s Chamber
Nuanced individual writing support for neurodivergent and highly sensitive people.
DO YOU:
need help with motivation and inspiration?
feel overwhelmed with too many big ideas?
crave a gentle, soul-deep space to follow your creative process and hear your inner intuitive voice?
Imagine diving in and meeting in the online Submergence Memoirist’s Chamber each week and making real progress on writing your story. Won’t it feel great to have the completed manuscript in your hands ready to pass off to an editor during the final draft? Imagine feeling confident that you wrote your story in your brilliant voice? Wouldn’t it be fun to unleash your muse and mythopoetic identity and finally finish your book? Imagine how it will feel to say to yourself and believe, “yes, I am a writer.”
Ash offers something different than what academia and traditional writing coaches provide—a neuroscience-backed program for neurodivergent and highly sensitive people. She works with writers who want to build a writing habit that feels more like practice than discipline—even during rewrites. If you have a deep longing to write from your soul and grow into your mythopoetic identity, then Submergence: A Memoirist’s Chamber is a great place to go.
Sharon’s Testimonial
Nonjudgemental
Sea-Deep Support:
1:1 support sessions tailored to your project(s) needs
Individual email support between sessions
Writer’s folder with call recordings, Ash’s notes, exercises, assignments, and other resources
Off-call writing critique and Ash’s feedback stored in your personal writer’s folder
Peek Inside:
1st Session: Holistic Watercourse Mapping.
We begin by reverse engineering your goals to decide where we focus. We write a manifesto and design a strategy that fits your life and goals and schedule our future sessions in ways that support your writing development, learning style, and creative process.
Following Sessions:
Ash will answer burning questions during each session, brainstorm, edit, and provide tools for your tool belt. Between sessions, we stay connected so that you can finally finish writing your story in personal essay or memoir form.
Dive in right in with sea-deep support
Submergence: A Memoirist’s Chamber
You’re ready to hone your craft, put more words on the page, and be confident in your voice as a writer.
It’s hard to know where you are with your own writing. It’s hard to evaluate, it’s hard to know if it’s any good, it’s hard to know where to go next. It takes a lot of practice, patience, and tools to be able to hit send on that newsletter, polish and publish poems, or do the day-in-day-out work of writing a book.
By combining accountability and coaching, Ash can help you finish your writing projects, feel confident in your voice, and build a writing practice that thrives.
One-on-one writing coaching is for highly sensitive people who are ready to take their writing to the next level.
CANNONBALL SESSION
Find your voice and gain valuable creating and writing skills in this one-hour session.
$369
4 SESSION PACKAGE
Hone your craft and tempt your muse back to your writing desk with ongoing support.
$1,276
6 SESSION PACKAGE
Unleash your mythopoetic identity and take your writing to the next level with direction.
$1,794
Monthly Retainers are available for those who have previously worked with me and are seeking ongoing support.
Deep Dive
Writing
Retreat
A high-touch custom experience
designed for you to rejuvenate and
recover the soul of your story.
If you’re close to burnout and are overwhelmed with your personal essay or memoir project, then it’s time to demystify your problems, reset your nervous system, and move forward with strategic action and a plan.
We begin with a 30 minute prep call to decide what is top focus. We’ll pour all of our creative and strategic energy there for maximum impact.
At the end of your retreat, you’ll be amazed at the progress you’ve made and feel rejuvenated (not exhausted) and ready for the next thing.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
30 min prep call
1 day long retreat
1 week follow up support
$2,222
Tamara’s Testimonial
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Your hands— they need to write. Your belly burns when you don’t put pen to paper. Your tolerance for other people drops to 4%, and finally, you sit down to write, but then the gremlins in your mind come out to play, saying things like you aren’t good enough and who would want to read this and why would you waste your time with such nonsense?
So, your muse abandons your desk and heads for the neighbor’s jacuzzi, and your mythopoetic identity hides somewhere in the seaweed garden.
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Perhaps you’re writing a personal essay blog, working on a newsletter, or writing a beautiful memoir. What you want is a coach that won’t teach you their way to write, but will help you write your way. On the surface, you're excited about relating with your mythopoetic identity for a while and how becoming a better writer positively impacts the rest of your life. On a deep level, you feel that writing your story is answering a soul craving within you.
Whatever your reason for wanting to write, there are trauma informed and neuroscience-backed tools that can help you do it. (Surprise: it has a lot to do with your intuition.)
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Submergence: A Memoir Writing Chamber is for neurodivergent and highly sensitive writers who desire craft skills and a deeper relationship with their muse. They want a place that is quiet and totally theirs to go write. Someplace they won’t be distracted by other people’s voices, opinions, and processes. They swim down and into Submergence: A Memoir Writing Chamber and meet with Ash at the table with the view of the seaweed garden and wide expanse of ocean. Ash helps them unlock their voice, dismantle writer’s block, and finish their memoir one session at a time. She tailors the program to each individual writer’s needs.
It's no good to push hard to finish if you lose your voice or burn out before you get there, so Ash designs a program with and for you that works with your nervous system, writing dreams, and life.
Whatever your goals are, Ash uses her expertise in the written word and habit development to tailor a map through The Storybreath School that helps you reacquaint with your mythopoetic identity, entice your muse, and unleash your voice. Meet with her inside of Submergence: A Memoirist’s Chamber and write your story.
MEET ASH WYLDER
Ash Wylder is a published author who integrates the cross sections of a deep passion for neuroscience, skill development, and mind-body connection into all of her coursework and uses her history working with team leaders and CEOs to help neurodivergent and highly sensitive writers build creative writing processes that work. She is a life-long lover of language with a run-amok imagination and believes that the art of writing something reader-ready should be a curious and joyful experience. No matter where your blocks come up, she can teach you how to demystify and move beyond them in trauma-sensitive and neuroscience-backed ways.
Writing Mentorship is for the highly sensitive and/or neurodivergent person who craves one-on-one support while asking big, dangerous questions about their writing.
These writers are committed to owning their voice as a writer, taking their craft to the next level, and/or becoming published. They dream of calling themselves a writer, but are fearful of getting involved with a coach that pressures them into decisions they don’t feel ready to make.
Dare to poeticize your language.
IF YOU:
need more freedom (and time) to process than traditional coaching
crave a custom-tailored program that develops your writing confidence, voice, and skills
desire to learn through caring feedback & trauma-sensitive support
are highly sensitive or neurodivergent (or might be) and want move from everything-at-once to focused clarity
Katie’s Testimonial
You know that you are a writer.
The bone-deep desire to own this identity accompanies you everywhere.
Perhaps you’ve looked at MFA’s and know that yearly tuition averages $13,800 at public schools and $36,300 at private universities.
Maybe the idea of spending weekly hours in a classroom moving through curriculum that isn’t tailored to your needs feels like a waste of time.
If you’ve been stuck for a long time, you know that a five-day writing retreat in Italy won’t help you finish your book. You know that the thing that will change your project is consistent attention to it with the support of someone you trust with your creative process.
There is a better way.
For one-third of an MFA, receive critique, tools, and instruction on writing that matters.
Inexperienced coaches or over-eager cheerleaders are not the people to trust with this soul-deep creation process. You want someone in your corner with years of experience helping people reach their potential. If your dream is to be a writer (paid or not), then you already are a writer–we just need to help you reach the next level on your journey.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF INSPIRATION
When we think about creativity, storytelling, writing, and communication, we assume it all lives in our heads, but science shows that connection is a connected experience. As creatives, we know the power of intuition and emotion. As writers, we also see the power of structure and science in intentionally scaffolding connections between language and people. Neuroscience shows which habits move the needle most when merging opposing forces that birth excellent writing (like spontaneity and consistency). This approach is holistic and involves working with the natural cycles of the nervous system.
TESTIMONIALS
IF YOU:
are ready to bridge the gap between your privately creative identity and your outward persona
desire a coach who’s trained in the neuroscience behind habit development and tailors each session to meet your specific needs
agree with this statement: “All people are different people.” Ted Lasso