Live Workshops

Writing As Healing: A 90-Minute Workshop for Caregivers

A gentle journaling space for those who give so much of themselves

Course Description:

Caring for someone you love can be both beautiful and exhausting — a constant navigation between grief and grace.

In this 90-minute workshop, writers and caregivers Jeannie Ewing (me) and Chris B. create a compassionate space for reflection, connection, and renewal. Drawing from our lived experiences — I as a mother and long-term caregiver to my daughter Sarah, and Chris as a father caring for his son Bray Bray — we invite you to explore how writing can help you process emotion, rediscover meaning, and reconnect to yourself.

Through gentle prompts, poetry, and storytelling, you will learn how journaling can become a sustaining practice — one that holds both the pain and the beauty of caregiving.

Includes:

  • 90-minute recorded session

  • Downloadable journaling workbook featuring prompts and poems

  • Lifetime access to recording + resources

Cost: $40 per participant
Live Session: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM ET

Whether you’re caring for a child, spouse, parent, or friend, this session offers a gentle place to pause and write your way toward restoration.

sign up here

What participants say

  • Jeannie is such a good group facilitator, because she makes sure that she touches every person and gives them not only an opportunity to share, but by encouraging them quietly to participate. My experience in the group went above and beyond my expectations.

    Dawn Anderson

  • Jeannie creates that kind of space where she allows, encourages, and invites people to just be in whatever form that they are, and she held space for both of those. She makes people feel valued and valid, like they are the most important person in the room in the moment that she’s talking to them. She has a phenomenal capacity of holding community.

    Teri Leigh

  • This felt safer than many of the safe spaces that I go to because of the limited number of participants, and it was very apparent that I was being held. Jeannie is innately kind. She is skilled in communication, empathy, and is a deep listener. She listens behind the words and checks in to make sure she’s hearing what’s in the heart. She’s also teaching people how to do all of this while modeling it.

    Laury Boone Browning

  • Jeannie did a great job of creating a safe environment. I felt very safe with her to tune into and share my deeper personal need. Jeannie expertly managed the tricky balance between structure and spontaneity in creating an effective sharing space within a small community. Everything she said was insightful, and I loved hearing her perspective.

    Declan Zimmermann

Meet Your Facilitators

Jeannie Ewing

Chris B.

  • As a writer and speaker, I help people navigate grief, parenting, and personal change. Known for candid, empathetic storytelling, I examines life’s ‘both/and’ experiences—where sorrow meets joy. I create space for shared understanding and growth.

    I am a published author and have over ten years of writing and public speaking at conferences, workshops, retreats, and gatherings on the topics of grief and caregiving.

    My husband Ben and I have five kids: Felicity (15), Sarah (12), Veronica (8), Joey (7), and Auggie (5). Sarah was born with a rare genetic condition called Apert syndrome that requires keeping up with dozens of specialists, managing multiple complex surgeries and procedures, and maintaining an optimal quality of life. I share my lived experience as a caregiver for her special needs in both my writing and in speaking to others.

  • Chris B. is an award-winning published poet, caregiver, and dad to his 11-year-old son Bray Bray. His poem “The Believer” won the 2025 BREW Poetry Project Community Poem of the Year, “noted for its honest portrayal of family, caregiving, and everyday life.”

    Chris’ poem “The Hours” was published in FLARE Magazine, Issue 4, in August of 2025. FLARE is a magazine that shines a spotlight on people with chronic health conditions and those who care for them.

    Chris says, “I write, because the process of writing itself unlocks something deep within me that allows for unfiltered emotional release. My goal for this workshop is to help give caregivers a tool to express themselves and sort through their emotions in a constructive and positive manner.” 

    When he’s not writing, caregiving, or working, you can find Chris on the pickleball and volleyball courts of Long Island, NY, where he resides with his wife Melanie and Bray Bray. Chris can be found on Substack as Chris B. Writes: https://chrisbwrites.substack.com/


sign up here