A Free Virtual Experience · August 14–16
Your Transplant Voice
3-Day Writing Circle
You survived something most people will never understand.
But putting it into words? That is the part that still feels impossible.
A Free Virtual Experience · August 14–16
You survived something most people will never understand.
But putting it into words? That is the part that still feels impossible.
Maybe you have tried. You sit down on the couch, journal open in your lap, and you stare out the window for a while before you even pick up the pen. When you finally start writing, what comes out are fragments. A smell. A date. A face. The words feel too small for what actually happened, and the emotions you most want to put on the page stay just out of reach.
The people you love are right there, and still you feel like they cannot quite get to where you are. You want them to understand what you really went through — not the version you told them in the hospital waiting room, but the real one. And every time you try to write it down, what lands on the paper does not come close to capturing it.
So you close the journal.
I see you. And I know how lonely it can be when somewhere along the way,
"transplant recipient" became your whole identity instead of just part of your story.
This isn't about being a writer.
You do not need to worry about perfect grammar or spelling. It is about finally making sense of what happened to you. It is about taking the chaos of your experience and organizing it on paper, so you can get the "me" back.
A free 3-session virtual writing circle for transplant recipients who are finally ready to put their story into words.
This is a guided space to tell the whole story — not just the grateful version.
When you join this circle, you are not just getting a storytelling class. You are joining a positive community who actually gets it. There is no doom-scrolling or toxic complaint sessions. It's just a safe, supportive environment where you use the physical act of handwriting to process your journey and heal the parts of yourself that medicine cannot touch.
You will have language for something that once felt impossible to explain.
You will understand your own experience differently, finding sequence and meaning in the fragments.
You will feel witnessed and understood by a like-minded, positive community.
You will begin to untangle your gratitude from your guilt, and start reclaiming your identity beyond your diagnosis.
Big experiences are stored as fragments. Writing helps you create sequence, and meaning, out of what felt like chaos. We will identify one specific moment and use that as an anchor for your story.
There is the story you told people. And then there is the story that was happening inside, at exactly the same time, that no one saw. The surface story vs the real one. What you said vs what you actually felt. We write the version that has been waiting to be told.
There is a difference between surviving something and integrating it. Your experience becomes insight. Your insight becomes message. This is where your story finds its purpose beyond survival.
I was 26 years old when I received my kidney transplant. I was young, naive, and had no idea what I was getting myself into. The medical community is incredible at what they do to get you to transplant, but then they kind of just drop you off. And there is so much that comes after that nobody really prepares you for. The emotional weight of it. The way your identity shifts. The things you feel but cannot name.
I have lived this journey for over three decades. I know what it means to be fiercely protective of your health, to fight for your energy, and to refuse to let the "patient" label define you.
I believe the human body has an innate power to heal itself, and I believe the mind is just as powerful. My philosophy is simple: physically writing your story by putting pen to paper is a profound healing modality. It helps you get out of your own way, process the trauma, and embrace your best second chance at life.
The experience gave me the courage and the words I had not been able to find before.
"I realized there is more to my story than what I have been telling. Writing on paper instead of a keyboard gave me an opportunity to discover new thoughts and feelings and finally put words to them. Listening to others share their experiences and the stories that came from them was transformative."
D. — April 2026 Writing Circle ParticipantI immediately felt that this was an absolutely safe space.
"I went from feeling apprehensive to having a strong desire and willingness to share openly. I thought I knew what I was going to write, but when pen came to paper, something different emerged. Gina's guidance, along with her willingness to share from her own experience, helped create that."
K. — April 2026 Writing Circle ParticipantThe experience pushed me to want to publish my own story.
"I was struck by the honesty and courage of the participants and by how everyone's stories were so unique, yet universal. I also loved the open format and the freedom to participate in a way that felt comfortable."
R. — April 2026 Writing Circle Participant
I am a kidney transplant recipient. I am also a writer. This program lives at the intersection of both.
My father donated a kidney to me, and that experience changed the shape of my life in ways I spent years learning to name. I have been writing since I was ten years old, have written two books, and have spent more than two decades at the intersection of wellness, writing, and the body. I understand firsthand what it means to carry a story that has no structure, no container, and no room that was built to hold it.
I am also a health coach and yoga teacher with over 25 years of personal inner work behind me. I bring all of that to this program — not as a therapist, not as a writing teacher in the traditional sense, but as a transplant storytelling facilitator who knows both the terrain of transplant life and the craft of giving experience a shape on the page. I absolutely love being in these spaces and would be honored to have you join me in this special and private container.