Messy Beautiful Writing
Show up as you are. Unleash your creative energy. Uncover your deeper truth and story.
Messy Beautiful Writing Circles
Writing your Wild, True, Perfectly Imperfect Self
Messy Beautiful Writing Circles are intimate, safe, and sacred.
Messy Beautiful Writing is a simple and deeply healing timed writing practice where we use poems as doorways to our inner truth and authentic voice.
If you:
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are craving a space where you are accepted exactly as you are
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want room to explore all the messy and beautiful parts of yourself
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are looking for connection with others that goes below superficial day-to-day chitchat
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desire depth rather than performative productivity
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are holding stories that want to be told
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have been creatively frozen or stuck
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want to feel more awake, honest, and connected in your creative life
then this is the place for you!
In a non-performative, non-judgmental space, without praise or critique, we drop all effort to write well, and instead focus on writing what is true.
You do not need to arrive polished here.
Bring your uncertainty.
Bring your unfinished thoughts.
Bring your weirdness.
Bring your wild, messy, beautiful self just as you are!
How it Works
Pen never leaves the page, listen to your inner voice, say yes to what’s coming.
In our small group Messy Beautiful Writing classes, we gather each week to write together in an intimate and safe space.
We start with a poem which I read aloud as we each listen internally for what arises—feelings, images, memories, or thoughts. Whatever comes up is perfect.
I'll give some jump-off lines to give us a place to start, and then we write for 10-15 minutes—quickly, pen never leaving the page, saying yes to whatever is coming. This allows us to bypass the inner critic and access our true, messy beautiful voice. Whether it’s mundane, profound, contradictory or vulnerable—everything is welcome here.
Then we each read our piece aloud. Yes, we all read, even me! Knowing that everyone will read creates safety in the circle. It gives us practice getting comfortable being seen just as we are.
When it's our turn, we resist the urge to explain or excuse our writing—we let it stand on its own. When someone else is reading, we keep our eyes on that person so that they feel heard. After, we don't praise or give any feedback other than a gesture of acknowledgement such as a hand to the chest or a nod and smile. It is very freeing for the reader to know that what they wrote won't become a big discussion, and that everything is accepted in the circle equally.
This is not an assignment! You don't need to try to understand the poem, and you don't need to write about the poem in any way. You also do not need to be a "writer". Anyone can do this practice who is interested in a deeper connection with themselves and others. You can't do it wrong.
Join a 90-minute workshop to explore the art of Messy Beautiful Writing in a warm virtual group via Zoom
Saturday, August 22, 2026
To register, simply email Kristi at kristiannjoy@gmail.com
Cost: $40
Venmo is preferred, but if you need to pay another way, just let me know. @Kristi-Ann-Joy
Messy Beautiful Writing Workshop
Current Offerings
Join us via Zoom for this messy and beautiful 6-week journey from September 1 - October 6, 2026.
I intentionally keep our writing circles small, safe and intimate. Group size is limited to 7 participants.
Meetings are held weekly, Tuesdays from 11am-12:30pm EST.
Cost: $250
To secure your spot in our small group for women, please email Kristi at kristiannjoy@gmail.com
Messy Beautiful Writing Circle
Kristi Joy Rimbach
After 30 years as an energy healer and teacher, I fell in love with writing. It began in 2020, at the start of the pandemic when I came across a 21-day Wild Writing class taught by Laurie Wagner.
The Wild Writing practice was a revelation.
Instead of agonizing over every sentence and worrying about doing it right, we wrote fast and freely like a brisk wind. There was no time for the inner critic to interfere. What resulted was raw, unfiltered, messy, beautiful truth. Sometimes it was cluttered and mundane, sometimes it was aching and poetic. But, it didn't matter because it was true.
After five years of practicing Wild Writing, I felt called to teach this deep and profound practice. I believe so many of us are hungry for real connection, with ourselves and others.
I call my classes Messy Beautiful Writing because it acknowledges the full catastrophe of what it means to be human. I hope you'll join me.
I invite you to subscribe to my Substack to receive poems and essays, where I mine every corner for truth, meaning and beauty:
Writer, Poet, Wild Writing Teacher
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