Coaching Sale & Community Kick Off (Erin Jean Warde)

Just dropping by to remind you about the community kick off this week AND the sale I’ve got going for coaching right now.

Sep 04, 2024

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Coaching Sale & Community Kick Off

Hello friends,

Just dropping by to remind you about the community kick off this week AND the sale I’ve got going for coaching right now. (A coaching package covers 5 sessions not 4! Extra session to get you starting your fall semester on the right foot. Just grab a coaching package by end of day Friday!)

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Heads up: You’re going to get more messages from me than you’re probably used to, because I’ll be sharing a bit more than usual about the community. And you’re going to get lots more messages from me if you’re a paid subscriber, because I’ll be offering discussion prompts & more goodies for y’all!

Coming soon: I’ll be sending out Community Agreements for the whole community and a thread for EVERYONE to get us started… so stay tuned!

Additionally, a few thoughts I’d like to share:

ACCESSIBILITY THOUGHTS

I keep thinking this in my heart, but I don’t know that I have said this out loud: I am offering this community for $7/month, because I hope it can be accessible care. I know, very much, what it means to be broke. I have had months where I had to cancel everything I could—Netflix, Substack subscriptions, supplements, even Diet Dr. Pepper lol—because I knew all those odd dollars saved had to pay my internet bill. So I certainly have had seasons when I desperately wanted care, but couldn’t afford the hundreds or thousands of dollar price tags that can come with it.

So, even though I have known seasons when even $7/month was too much, I wanted to offer something that I pray can serve as low cost care to those who seek it. It isn’t the same thing as coaching, I know that, but if you’re here, you can always chime in via the comments on posts (free posts always have an open comments section!) and if you join the paid community, you can tell us how you’re doing on live calls and in the comments section for both free and paid posts.

And I’ll be your Chaos Chaplain. I’ll hold you in my heart and I’ll hold space for you here, so you’re loved inside whatever chaos your life has given you. More than that, I hope you’ll find friends within this little gathering. <3

CALL THOUGHTS

I’ve been thinking a lot about live calls for paid subscribers and this is what I’d like to build toward:

Monthly Kick Off Call: Early in the month social call to talk about the month ahead. Flexible vibes! Maybe we even take time to vision & plan for the month ahead together? So this could be part co-working space? Or just a party?
Highs & Lows Processing Call: A monthly call to share your “highs & lows.” You can check in, tell us how you’re doing, and we can celebrate your wins & care for you in your challenges. [I’ll also be offering posts for these where you can share in the comments.]
Book Club: Once a month, we’ll discuss the book of the month (but no book club this month!). (This will be later in the month so we have time to read it last minute because, ahem, that’s part of my chaos…)

This month, September, we’ll have a live call later in the month with just highs & lows… (I want to give a few more people the time to join!) but paid posts & threads start this week!

For now, enjoy some reminders below about Chaos Land & coaching. So, so grateful for y’all being here.

With love & care,
EJW (your Chaos Chaplain <3)

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Welcome to CHAOS LAND

It’s Chaos Land, because it’s a place where we love you for your chaos, not despite it.

Because your chaos is real. It is your life. It is my life, too. It makes us who we are — and yet, no matter your chaos, you might still need to be grounded amidst it, which is why we turn to community.

We also might love our chaos — chaos can be fun! — so we get to celebrate our chaos, too. We get to honor the complexities of who we are, mind, body, and soul. Some of that will be fun, some of that will be hard, some of that will need grounding, and some of our chaos might even be invitational. What if we embraced it? Or at least leaned into it?

What if embracing our chaos within community helped us navigate it better than thinking we could “fix it”?

What if you could hurl things into the main, to receive love, compassion, and maybe most importantly: laughter, in return?

Free subscribers

If you’re here, you’re in Chaos Land with me, EJW—your Chaos Chaplain.
I’ll be sharing all about my chaos, and holding space for yours, every week in my newsletter.
Feel free to share in the comments anytime you’d like! I love hearing from you. <3

Paid Subscribers

You’ll have access to paid posts (you’ll receive them just like you do this e-mail) that invite you to chat & share with the community.
You’ll also have access to live calls via Zoom. See more above!
Book club! And with a Zoom call to discuss.
In September I’ll be offering a link to sign up for a 20 minute 1:1 chat with me, if you’re in the paid community. I’d like to get to know you!
Miscellaneous fun events we might have (movie night? random threads? seasonal chats?)
Voice memos & video reflections as per my ADHD lol

Welcome to Chaos Land. You’re in it. Become a paid subscriber to go further into the spiral. <3

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