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Powerful Results Lifelong JourneyCopyright Zan Z. Packard 2008
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The Adventurous Introvert ™ Founder of Women Alive! ™
Zan Z. Packard, M.A.
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ABOUT ZAN
I am an introvert…pure and simple. I love people, yet they exhaust me. I need huge amounts of alone time daily to recharge my energy so that I can keep functioning at high levels. In the process of growing up, starting a family and developing several careers I lost track of myself. I didn't know who I was anymore or who I wanted to be for that matter. I was just going through the motions of living without any real sense of being alive. I felt trapped and alone. Not a very nice place to be. I hated my life, but I didn't know what else to do - who else to be.
I kept going back to a childhood dream of being a writer - boy that seemed like the perfect career for me: creative and solitary with the prospects of devling deeply into each subject I wrote about.
Out of sheer pain from not even attempting my dreams, I decided that I would have to start writing every day. In the beginning it was very intimidating. "What should I write about? Who did I think I was?" I asked myself as I stared at the blank page. Luckliy I was so determined to just write that I ended up writing about nothing in particular.
~ WOW that was the biggest breakthrough of all. ~
I wrote in a purely free association style of journaling. I wrote first thing in the morning before the day began to take hold and divert my attention elsewhere. I just let it all hang out (on paper, of course).
I wrote a minimum of 3 pages everyday…faithfully…without regard to what I wrote. It became very empowering. It seemed that I could dump my thoughts onto paper and clear my mind for more productive endeavors. Some may tell you to reread your writings, and for some exercises I do, but I don't do it often because I found that it was the actual process of writing—of getting my thoughts out of my head and onto paper—that worked for me.
I discovered that no matter where I began, my thoughts would go right to where they needed to go to get my inner work done. I’ve read a kazillion books, I’ve got a Masters Degree in Counseling, I taught public school for years…I’ve been successful at many levels, but I never came to terms with my introverted nature until I started writing daily.
This process was so deceptively simple and fun to do. I started raving about it to anyone who would listen. I researched and experimented with different techniques to guide me through all the life changes I was going through on my inner journey. I eventually organized the best of my techniques into lessons that I could share with others. Armed with an idea and a passion I held my first workshop called The Journey Within. That was three years ago and I haven't stopped since.
I've had so many requests to make my workshops available on audio downloads that I am currently creating them to be a virtual workshop. Essentailly the same as being there in person but done in the privacy of your own home.
This journey is not magic, it is not isolated to just me… my writing process supports many temperaments and challenges…your brain is the best friend you have when you learn to channel it to your greater good. Guided Writing does that and more.
So, yes, I’m a writer. I write for fun, I write for money and mostly I write for life….
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