Shift Your Story

A 9-Week Virtual Retreat

January 17 - March 14, 2027

It’s time to write your story.

You have a story to tell. Maybe it’s that time you had your ass kicked by love. Or how you rediscovered your inner whisper strolling through the streets of Barcelona. Perhaps it’s the story of crumbling after your mother’s death or rising in the face of your childhood trauma. Your legacy is the unique mash-up of experiences, lessons, and moments that no one else has lived quite like you.

And it deserves to be written.

Shift Your Story is a 9-week virtual retreat to curate, compose, and celebrate your story.

This is a loving and immersive experience. We will celebrate who you’ve been and walk into who you are becoming. By the end you will have a polished written piece that speaks to past triumphs and future expansion. This guiding document will simultaneously open your new timeline while honoring the ones you’re collapsing. 

Guided by me, your developmental editor Kayla Floyd and my sister, your life coach Lacy Young, we’ll use meditation, story craft, and guided writing exercises to imagine, plan, and compose your own mini memoir or personal manifesto.

Don’t worry; if you don’t identify as a writer now, you will by the time you leave this experience. You’ll surprise yourself with how quickly you move from discovery to composition. You’ll finish with a polished piece you want to read again and again because it feels so true, so honoring, so alive, so YOU. 

Your Story Matters

Lacy and I have spent nearly two decades marveling at what happens when people see themselves.

When you see yourself. 

If you’ve ever done eye gazing with us at a Shift Retreat, or met yourself in your mind’s eye during one of our meditations, or basked in embodied you feel on the page after a book coaching session, then you know what we're talking about. 

It’s that moment when something softens in you, like a quiet crack, and a whoosh of knowing fills every crevice of your being. You see the strength, the heartbreak, the love, the passion, the sorrow, the curiosity…the whole beautiful spectrum of all that you are. And in that moment you feel deeply grateful to be YOU.

That is the space we are inviting in together. That is the medicine we will bottle on the page.

Will you Shift Your Story?

Who should join?

Shift Your Story is an easy yes if one (or more) of the following is true:

1. You’ve felt the inner nudge that it’s time to write some part of your story. You’re an avid journaler who knows the power of writing. You’ve been through a major up level in your life that you want to chronicle, and you feel excited about the thought of holding a complete, polished piece in your hands.

2. You’re aching to write a book-length work but need support getting started. You thrive in guided experiences and flourish when taught tools, practices, and processes. You intend to use Shift Your Story as an on-ramp for your larger book draft.

3. You love the soulful experiences we create and the permission-giving spaces we hold. You are a former student of one or both of us and are familiar with how it feels to answer your inner call. You are saying yes to this experience because it feels good, you want to, and the time is right. ;)

Shift Your Story will help you hone your process for self-discovery, storyboarding, writing, and editing. This is Soul Care (deep tending) meets Memoir Map (tactical practice) that leads to intentional words on the page.

During our 9 weeks together, we will use meditation, guided writing, and coaching to: 

• Clarify Your Why. Understanding your motivation for telling your story is paramount for getting you across the finish line. We’ll help you craft your “Why Statement” and teach you how to use it to fuel your writing sessions. 

• Mine Your Stories. Your life is a treasure trove of compelling material. We’ll help you sort through your most poignant moments and decide which ones want to come to life on the page.

• Dissolve Your Blocks. Through 1:1 coaching, we’ll help you quiet the voices that say you can’t and connect you with the ones that know you can. You’ll be able to clearly visualize your finished story in your hands.  

• Develop Your Story Arc. We’ll demystify the craft of writing and break your story into beats. By defining a beginning, middle, and end, we’ll simplify the drafting process and create a guiding structure.

• Build Your Plan. Regardless of your writing style (plotter or pantser), a solid plan is the key to productive writing sessions. We’ll teach you how to organize and stay on track.

• Write Your Draft. Projects are completed through small steps. Through bite-sized tips, tricks, and tools, we’ll train your mind how to write your story one word at a time.

Shift Your Story was crafted to mimic the touch, impact, and lasting effect of an in-person retreat, but at a pace that fits into your day-to-day life. Over the course of the virtual retreat you will receive: 

• Nine Group Sessions via Zoom to meditate, learn, write, and expand into what’s possible

• Three 1:1 Coaching Sessions with Lacy to dissolve your blocks, clarify your why, and mine your experiences for your message

• Three 1:1 Story Coaching Sessions with Kayla to develop your story, build your plan, and receive writing support

• Editorial Feedback on your draft

• Welcome Package of authorly love gifts

By the end of the experience, you will complete a polished mini-memoir or personal manifesto.

While there is no prescribed length, your piece will likely land around 10-25 pages (2500-6000 words approximately). This can be a standalone piece or an excerpt/chapter of a larger work you hope to continue. You will have the option to share your piece with the group.

Meet your Shift Your Story guides:

Over the last 17 years, Lacy Young has guided women through unabashed exploration of radical permission, foundational belief work, and personal autonomy. She shares her wisdom in spaces full of ease, connection, and joy, inviting her people to right-size Big Things and allow joy to land wherever it will. Lacy tends to well-being—emotional, physical, and spiritual—in a process that is truthful, gentle, and supportive, opening opportunities for somatic connection and emotional healing that both restores a holistic sense of balance and offers back a powerful sense of self.

Kayla’s background is in story. She earned a degree in film studies from the University of Texas at Austin and has spent her career studying narrative structure across film, books, and television. She sees life through the lens of catalysts, midpoints, and character arcs. Kayla believes deeply in the power of our stories to heal, inspire, and expand ourselves and one another. She is obsessed with the resilience, creativity, and capability of women, and she feels wild satisfaction every time she helps another woman bring her wisdom to life on the page.

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