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Tell your birth story! Your story deserves to be told, and it doesn't need to feel intimidating. This workshop is designed to help you put words to paper with a guided writing process. Learn where to begin or how to elevate what you already have written. This May, we will be spend a morning writing together. Sharing is optional! Writing your birth story uplifts experiences that have been silenced by a patriarchal literary cannon. Author what you've learned about yourself - and humanity! - through your hero's journey into parenthood. Whether your birth was mundane or magical, traumatic or inspiring, just last month or years ago -- putting your perspectives on paper can be a therapeutic process. Together we will do some of the messy parts of brainstorming and free-writing. In a supportive environment, you'll be prompted to ask yourself some of the hard questions required to write your story. We will also discuss a few writing concepts to spice-up your writing, such as: - Figurative language - Non-linear narrative - Narrative voice - Foreshadowing - Rhyme and repetition AND MORE! Emily Likins-Ehlers is a full spectrum doula and childbirth educator in South Chicagoland. As a writer, Emily has been featured in publications such as A New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Mamalode Magazine, Lux Magazine, People's World, and more. Emily has a degree in Literature from the University of Montana and has been helping people process their birth stories since 2014.