Tracie Nichols, M.A.

Tracie Nichols, M.A.

Writing Services

  • About
  • Writing Workshops
  • Copyediting & Proofreading
  • Letters to You
  • Blog
  • Contact Me
  • Remembering Breath: and how much I needed a quiet morning

    Remembering Breath: and how much I needed a quiet morning

    after days of fuss and stir, after being breathed on and pushed along by ant-hill crowds, in a flurry of hurry move shove bruise— to land. here. washed in birdsong. this sweet, small back and forth. held by the tiny, daily rebirth that is morning. What’s “Remembering Breath” all about? A daily devotion. A reverence […]

    Tracie Nichols

    July 13, 2022
    Poetry and Art, Self Care
    Poetry, remembering breath, writing practice
  • Full contact listening—writing about it keeps me resilient

    Full contact listening—writing about it keeps me resilient

    When I was little, I was convinced the old white pine tree next to our home and the puffy clouds in the sky were telling each other the most amazing stories. I thought that if I could just figure out the right way to listen, I’d be able to hear them.  Tell me. You’re so […]

    Tracie Nichols

    June 30, 2022
    Power of Words, Writing
    class, listening with our bodies, remembering breath, Self-Care, workshop, writing practice
  • Remembering Breath—and tiny bringers of wonder

    Remembering Breath—and tiny bringers of wonder

    You and I and soft wet air—skin of our skin— and a thousand tiny here and gone lights rise pale and yellow, blur constellations, separate stars from mythologies, repaint the night with mystery and leave wonder in their phosphorescent wake. What’s “Remembering Breath” all about? A daily devotion. A reverence of words remembering elemental kindness. […]

    Tracie Nichols

    June 26, 2022
    Poetry and Art, Self Care
    remembering breath, writing inspiration
  • Remembering Breath and trusting fire on the Summer Solstice

    Remembering Breath and trusting fire on the Summer Solstice

    The quietest exultation slow spins the wave of me— dip undulate pull rise (long, slow breath) I have space enough to… to… … Trust, fire says. Trust what you have planted. What’s “Remembering Breath” all about? A daily devotion. A reverence of words remembering elemental kindness. I’ll be publishing these “reverences of words” here every […]

    Tracie Nichols

    June 21, 2022
    Poetry and Art, Self Care
    remembering breath, writing inspiration
  • This is brought to you by the letter “B”: for breath, beginning, burgeoning…

    This is brought to you by the letter “B”: for breath, beginning, burgeoning…

    As I’ve aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. I have decided that I am here in this world to be moved by love and to let myself be moved by beauty. I will defend an earnest poem, I will defend beauty. […]

    Tracie Nichols

    June 16, 2022
    Power of Words, Self Care
    writing inspiration, writing practice
  • Remembering Breath {poetry}

    Remembering Breath {poetry}

    You lean in your vase so quietly, moments away from dropping pale pink petals on this scarred cherrywood desk. What will I do if you are not here exhaling Peony? How will I breathe?

    Tracie Nichols

    June 16, 2022
    Poetry and Art, Self Care
    remembering breath, writing inspiration
  • Nothing living lives alone

    Nothing living lives alone

    I was paging through a book I love and was paused by this: … in this participative universe, nothing living lives alone. Everything comes into form because of relationship. We are constantly called to be in relationship — to information, people, events, ideas, life. Even reality is created through our participation in relationships. We choose […]

    Tracie Nichols

    April 26, 2022
    Power of Words
    Margaret Wheatley
  • Sometimes it really is all too much…and that’s OK.

    Sometimes it really is all too much…and that’s OK.

    I originally published this article in January of 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Back then I was a life and business coach. Certainly my current work of facilitating writing workshops has me holding space for folks in a different way, but vicarious trauma can happen to anyone in any line of […]

    Tracie Nichols

    April 17, 2022
    Power of Words, Self Care, Writing
    trauma, vicarious trauma, writers block
  • An unexpected conversation

    An unexpected conversation

    Today I sat in community and nourishing conversation with independent business women, artists, solo practitioners—sisters in entrepreneurial endeavors. I brought with me my struggle with overwhelm and a question about finding and tending the energy needed to do my work with passion and integrity. I’m so glad I did. It was such a good conversation. […]

    Tracie Nichols

    April 1, 2022
    Power of Words, Self Care
    HSP, Nature, writing life
  • moving with the stirring stillness

    moving with the stirring stillness

    Spring is here whispering in my ear about possibilities and growing and how much she (somehow, I always think of spring as a young woman) loves waking up after a nice, long sleep.  She’s so close, you know. Closer than the still monochrome landscape reveals. She loves this bit. The almost-ness of it. The yearning. […]

    Tracie Nichols

    March 17, 2022
    Writing
    spring, writing inspiration, writing life
1 2 3
Next Page

Stay Connected

I believe in moving at the speed of kindness and saying things when I have something to say. That said (she says, tongue firmly in cheek) I send a newsletter every two weeks—rarely more frequently and sometimes less.

Subscribe
  • WordPress
  • Instagram

Contact
Privacy
Terms & Conditions

  • Follow Following
    • Tracie Nichols, M.A.
    • Join 94 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Tracie Nichols, M.A.
    • Edit Site
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar