Hi! I'm Nadia Colburn—writer, teacher, yogi, activist

Author of The High Shelf and founder of Align Your Story writing school.

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Writing into Joy...the Challenges and Rewards

Dear Reader! It’s spring here in Cambridge and the sun is out. It’s a great pleasure. When we write into pleasure and joy, our writing comes more alive—just like our landscape. But one of the biggest challenges many writers have is writing joy (a word, which, by the way, shares a root with the...

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18 days ago • 3 min read

Intention, Implementation, and the Earth

Dear Reader, This weekend, I went to a visioning retreat with one of my favorite teachers, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, a doctor and native teacher who teaches narrative medicine. On the way here, I listened to a podcast by one of my favorite podcasts, Outrage and Optimism: Climate Change Podcast. In the...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read