Edited to reflect changes to the Discord group. 5/2/2024
Hi lovelies! I know this isn’t my usual day for posting a newsletter, but I have some time sensitive news to share.
I have started a Discord community and wanted to invite you to join! Labyrinth Walkers is a study group and book club. It is a space for kindred spirits to meet to talk about our spiritual journeys/revelations, moments of magic and wonder, and to learn from each other.
Once a month, I will share the book we will be reading and the topic to discuss over the course of the month. Feel free to drop your suggestions for things you’d like to learn and books you’d like to read. Over the course of the month, I will also share journal prompts and there will be a channel for us to share pages from our journals with each other. At the end of each month, I will host a teatime video chat where you can join me live to chat over cups of tea (or coffee or whatever you like to drink) as we discuss that month’s book and share any insights we had as we journaled etc.
I will also move my unearthing your story course over to Discord, so for those of you who haven’t had a chance to take it and have been curious about it, now is your chance to access it through a channel on Labyrinth Walkers. Unearthing Your Story is my course that I developed during my master’s program. It is about exploring the stories that have been with us throughout our lives as a way of making sense of our personal mythologies. You don’t have to take the unearthing your story course to be a member of Labyrinth Walkers, and there is no time frame for completing the course. It will just be there, for you to dip in and out of as you see fit. Many of you took Unearthing Your Story years ago, so it might be nice to revisit some of the course material if you want, and to have an online community for sharing your thoughts about it with others on a similar journey.
Because I put so much time and energy into developing Unearthing Your Story, and since it is time-consuming to facilitate this coven of kindred souls, I decided to offer the Unearthing Your Story course channels of Labyrinth Walkers for $15, which gives you a one-year membership. You can PayPal or Venmo me at enchanted.caitlin@gmail.com (please leave me a note saying it is for Unearthing Your Story and share your email address) and I will add you to the Discord server. If you are a paid subscriber to this newsletter, you are automatically granted membership to Labyrinth Walkers, including Unearthing Your Story channels. You should receive an email shortly with the offer to join this Discord group.
If you haven’t received the email offer to join, or have trouble connecting to Discord, please email me at caitlingemmell@substack.com.
Since we are nearing the end of the month and I wanted to start this endeavour in May (because I’ll have a bit of a break from school), I am sending you the email about this community now.
If you are wanting to join, our book for May is by Sharon Blackie. Though her work was a major part of my graduate work at Prescott College, and while I’ve been recommended this book again and again, this will be my first time reading it too. We get to read it together. :) I can’t wait. This book can hopefully be found at your local library. It is also available on Ebay as a secondhand book or can be purchased as a kindle book or paperback book through Amazon. Going forward, we will vote on what book to read each month, so that we won’t have to pay much for our books. I’d love it if we can all read books that we already own or can access for free.
So, to sum up: If you’d like to join Labyrinth Walkers you can do so here. And if you want to participate in Unearthing Your Story course and aren’t a paid subscriber to this newsletter, send me a PayPal or Venmo for $15 for your yearly membership. My PayPal and Venmo are both enchanted.caitlin@gmail.com Be sure to include a note that it is for membership to Unearthing Your Story and include your email address. If you are already a paid subscriber of this newsletter, be on the lookout for an offer to join the Discord group Labyrinth Walkers and receive access to Unearthing Your Story too.
I can’t wait to connect with you and meet face to face for our monthly teatime chats!
Much love,
Cait