Hello! I’m Susannah.
I’m a writer and teacher and I’ve been sharing my heart online since 2006. I’m the author of This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart and my mission is to help people access their creative joy and nurture a deeper relationship with themselves.
Words have been at the centre of my world for as long as I can remember. I started writing a diary aged 11 and grew not only a life-long journaling practice but also an unending curiosity about my place in the world. Studying photography at art school followed by a degree in journalism lead to me working as a journalist for many years, but the truth is my life, as I now know it, began in the spring of 2005 when the man I loved died very suddenly from a heart attack — everything I thought I knew about life changed in that instant.
Walking through the fire of bereavement is how I truly came to inhabit every part of who I am, the shadows as well as the light. In 2006 I started writing a blog and being able to share my thoughts and feelings online was incredibly empowering, my way of getting back out there from the safety of my living room. Blogging helped reopen the door to my creativity, connecting me to other souls around the world as I found my way back to what was meaningful for me.
In 2008 I was invited to teach a photography class at a local adult education centre. As they already had a technical class I decided to create something more soulful drawing on everything I’d learned through my healing journey. I called that first class Unravelling and was excited to share my ideas with the 10 brave women who’d signed up. As we shared tears and revelations week after week I knew I was on to something, so I followed my intuition and offered the class online — within a week I had 100 women signed up. That was back in January 2009 and the rest, as they say, is history.
I now have a range of creative courses running throughout the year where I teach tools and practices to help others access their own creative joy. Thousands of people from over 50 countries around the world have joined together to explore their creativity with me. It’s such an honour to be able to do this work.
