12: Beyond Perfectionism: On Writing, Yoga, and Embodiment with Jackie Dominas

Meet Jackie Dominas, a spiritual life coach and yoga teacher. 

I'm so excited for you to listen to our chat. We met in person in 2018 after working together online.  

She teaches tired and unhappy women how to quiet their minds and listen to their bodies' innate wisdom, helping them feel calmer, present, and happy. She has two decades of experience working in the wellness industry as a dietitian, personal trainer, yoga teacher, and priestess. 

The journey of healing her relationship with her body, sense of worthiness, fertility challenges, navigating motherhood, and prolapse surgery informs her coaching and yoga classes. Her “Return to Your Core” membership offers weekly yoga classes and monthly moon circles that foster community, care for the female body, and heart-centered living. She coaches clients virtually through her “High Vibe” sessions, writes articles on Substack on cyclical living, and hosts annual yoga retreats and 200-hour yoga teacher trainings.

Jackie has been a long-time member of the writing community, and I just love how she shows up for herself as often as she can as an entrepreneur and homeschooling mama. Even if she's only got fifteen minutes, she'll show up and get her writing done.

✨ 4 Key Takeaways

• How you can go from having a story of being a "bad writer" turning in D papers in college to someone asking if you've hired a ghostwriter because your online writing is THAT GOOD

• Having a consistent writing practice can help you go from "heady" writing, stuck in perfectionism, to allowing your words to flow

• Writing about what you're passionate about can result in an immediate jump in readership

• Writing faster (even 10x faster than you're used to) makes for writing that connects and inspires

✅ Practices to try

1. Writing without editing. 

2. Writing a draft blog, email, or book chapter in the morning, and editing in the afternoon. 

3. Batch writing — writing a bunch of blogs in one day, or writing a blog a day for five days, and sharing them over the coming weeks.

4. Box breathing: Breathe in for a count of four, gently hold for four seconds, release for four seconds, hold for four again, and repeat a few times. 

5. Grounding outside: Go outside and tune into the farthest thing you hear, then work your way closer and closer until you're paying attention to what you hear in closest proximity to you.

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Jackie on the web, IG, free yoga class and meditation, and her popular Substack article -> Is Chakra work worth it?

• The Intuitive Writing Community

🎧 Related Episodes

• 03. The Surrendered First Draft Is the Key to Your Authentic Writing Voice

• 02: Co-Creating with Nature's Rhythms: Writing with the Moon

• 08. 6 Super Practical Strategies To Get Past Writing Resistance
  

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