More than doctors’ appointments, treatments, and symptom checking.
More than managing your life around what you think your body can tolerate.
More than shrinking yourself to stay safe.
What if your life didn’t have to stay small?
What if you woke up with energy not just to get through the day but to create something that matters?
You could walk away from that practitioner you don't need anymore.
You could add those hobbies and activities that sat on your bucket list while you focused on surviving.
And start designing your life around the ideas moving through your soul, and not just the current state of your body.
Perhaps holding something beautiful in your hands:
A bag, a book, a ticket - something you’ve earned by sharing your creativity with the world.
All made possible because you no longer wanted your life to feel like a recovery plan - but an expression.
Those journals sitting on your shelf, holding untold ideas and dreams?
You're ready to bring them to life.
You're ready to be surrounded by people who get you, not just by your pain but by your gifts.
You're ready to let go of the belief that your ideas are random or unimportant.
You want to embody the truth - your thoughts and ideas are a sacred frequency capable of reshaping your reality.
Spoons = the sacred energy rhythm of your creation
Pens = the creative act of reshaping your life from the inside out
Program is currently full
Once upon a time, this creative healing arc felt far-fetched to me.
I didn't think my brain would ever be capable of creating something from scratch.
When chronic illness hits, you don't just lose your energy.
You lose the langauge for who you are.
This reality brought me to my knees more times than I can count.
For years, my life became smaller and more isolated as I built what felt like a necessary wall of safety around me.
I learned how to cope, regulate my emotions, and adapt to a life that suddenly felt fragile and out of my control.
But I seemed to always hit a wall when it came to feeling like myself again.
Until I started to reckon with the identity crisis beneath the illness and started asking:
"What does my soul actually want to create?" instead of: "What can my body tolerate today?"
Most healing spaces offer tools to manage your life and your symptoms. But they rarely touch the deeper truth of who you are.
Here’s what I wish someone told me a LONG time ago: creative women heal differently.
We don’t need another system to manage or improve ourselves. We need a space to remember ourselves.
Because all that endless fixing slowly drains our energy and suppresses creativity.
And let's be honest, carrying around all that life force with no place to go is exhausting.
Spoons and Pens™ empowers women to release the "sick girl" identity and create their vision from the identity of a sacred creator.
Is exhausted and jaded by all the rules, systems, and “shoulds” and ready for support that expands instead of restricts
Knows she’s creative at her core, even if that creativity has been put on hold
Is in a season of shedding old identities and frameworks so her life can finally move
Values freedom, flexibility, and authenticity more than performance
Is heart-centred, emotionally intelligent, spiritually open, and not afraid of transformation
Ready to upgrade her language to fit the creative identity she's reclaiming
Has a lot of ideas, insights, and downloads… and wants support bringing them into lived, creative form
She's ready to commit to mentorship that transforms ideas into lived reality.
The ideas you’ve been holding back for so long will take real creative form.
You'll see yourself as the creator you’ve always been. Not in a “cute new hobby” way - but in a deep, embodied "I am the artist of my life" way.
In the Spoons & Pens way of living, creative expression is the way out of the cage and into freedom and endless possibility.
We don’t heal so you can finally live.
We create, and healing follows.
This communal somatic writing rite of passage for women returning to themselves weaves together lived transformation, somatics, narrative therapy, and Jungian psychology.
Week 1 — Opening the Circle
Initiation into creative identity. Softening perfectionism. Meeting the false self with compassion.
Week 2 — Naming & Unmasking
Discovering who you are beneath diagnosis and survival. Touching the Unlived Life.
Week 3 — Returning to the First Self
Reconnecting with your inner child—the original blueprint of creativity and freedom.
Week 4 — Gathering the Inner Council
Meeting emotions as symbolic characters. Reclaiming internal belonging.
Week 5 — The Descent
Grieving lost timelines. Visiting the sickbed self. Encountering the Becoming Woman.
Week 6 — The Threshold
Crossing the liminal bridge. Identity shift. Saying yes to becoming.
Week 7 — The Witness
Seeing your story from above. Compassion, clarity, and authorship awaken.
Week 8 — The Ceremony
Integration, embodiment, and creative homecoming. Claiming your new identity.
You’ve likely spent years investing in appointments, supplements, protocols, and solutions - trying to fix what felt broken.
But what would happen if you stopped trying to fix yourself and let creativity lead?
Spoons and Pens™ is an investment in your mind, body, and spirit, and your current and future creative endeavours.
Creative healing isn't a thing. It's the way.
The cost of the program is $1079 CAD (approximately $774.04 USD)
OR
6-month payment plan of $179.99 CAD ($126.45 USD)
Program is currently full
8 live 60-minute group calls via Zoom
1:1 feedback and coaching on your writing from Allison
Group messaging for inspiration and the option be paired with a pen pal for deeper support
Weekly expansive writing activities and somatic meditations
Lifetime access to all materials (including recorded classes)
Early access to future creator groups and other opportunites
"Spoons and Pens has been an 180-degree trun from when I thought chronic illness had taken writing away from me. With this writing, I've been able to do inner child & grief work, and be more honest with the people in my life. I highly recommend Spoons and Pens - I got a lot of healing & benefit from it!"
"Writing and I have never gotten along. I've resisted any type of journaling and writing as a means of therapy in my chronic illness journey...until I met Allison! Not only is she a genuine soul that truly cares about her members, but she has opened my eyes to an entire world of writing I never knew existed. Spoons and Pens unlocked a level of creativity I never knew I had and gave me the confidence to express myself unapologetically."