A 12-Week Guided Writing Experience for Transplant Recipients
The Transplant Narrative Project is a 12-week live program where transplant recipients find language for what they have lived — and build it into a story that finally belongs to them.
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Most transplant recipients spend years focused on appointments, medications, lab results, and simply making it through the next challenge. That work is real and it matters. But somewhere in the middle of all of it, something else happens. The story gets lost.
The fear that lived in your body before the surgery. The waiting that had no clear end. The phone call that changed everything. The grief that didn’t have a name. The identity shifts nobody warned you about. The moments nobody else witnessed. You carry all of it. And in many cases, you have carried it alone, without a structure or a space to put it anywhere.
Not because it isn’t important. Because life keeps moving. Because transplant care addresses the organ and not the person inside it. Because there has never been a room designed specifically for the story you have been trying to tell.
The Transplant Narrative Project was created to change that.
Every transplant recipient has a version of their story they tell in conversation, the one with the right amount of gratitude, the one that doesn’t make people uncomfortable. And somewhere underneath it, there is the whole story. That is what we are here to reach.
Even the people closest to you experienced your transplant from the outside. They were scared for you, relieved for you, grateful for you. But they don’t know what it felt like to be you inside all of it. This program gives you the words to close that gap.
Your care team is focused on your organ. That is their job and they do it well. But nobody on your medical team is asking what the waiting felt like, or what you lost along the way, or who you are becoming now. That part has always been left entirely to you.
You have lived one of the most significant experiences a human being can go through. That experience deserves more than a memory. It deserves language, structure, and a place to exist outside of your own mind.
“This isn’t about becoming a writer. It’s about finally having a room where no one needs you to explain what transplant life actually feels like.”
There are countless writing programs available. This is not one of them. The Transplant Narrative Project exists in a category of its own, because every person in the room has lived what you have lived. There are no explanations required, no educating others, no convincing anyone that what happened to you was real. Just a group of people who understand, guided through the process of giving their story the shape it deserves.
Everything about this program is tailored to you as a transplant recipient. The prompts, the teaching, the community, and the pace of the work are all designed around the specific landscape of transplant life. You will never have to translate your experience for anyone in this room.
Research suggests that writing can help people process difficult experiences, make meaning of what they have been through, and integrate life-changing events into their personal story. That is especially important for transplant recipients, whose journeys often include medical trauma, uncertainty, grief, gratitude, and profound transformation. The Transplant Narrative Project is a place to put those experiences into words.
The program is structured to take you from wherever you are now, whether you have never written a word or have been trying to write your story for years, to a finished narrative that reflects the full weight of what you have lived through. Every element is designed to serve that destination.
Each week, carefully designed prompts help you explore the major moments, memories, emotions, and turning points of your transplant experience. The prompts do not require writing experience. They require only a willingness to look honestly at what you have lived through.
We meet once a week, live, in a format designed for depth rather than performance. Sessions include a short nervous system relaxation practice, teaching, guided writing time, and space to share. Recordings are provided for every session.
Between sessions, you have access to a private Telegram group where you can share what you are working on, ask questions, and read what others are writing. A community of transplant recipients who genuinely understand what you have been through. That alone is worth something.
The twelve weeks follow a clear arc that moves you from scattered memories to a coherent narrative. You will never sit down to a blank page without knowing where to begin. The structure holds you so that you can focus entirely on the writing.
Each session includes brief, accessible teaching on the elements of personal narrative, how scenes work, how to write about the body, how to handle time and memory. You do not need to know any of this going in. That is what the teaching is for.
Sharing is always optional. Your story belongs entirely to you. You can share as much or as little as you choose throughout the twelve weeks, and what you write remains yours to keep, share with loved ones, or pursue for publication, whatever feels right.
You will have created something that did not exist before. Here is what that looks like.
Language for experiences that have lived in you without words, finally a way to describe what the waiting felt like, what the surgery asked of you, what you lost and what you found.
A written narrative of your transplant journey that you can hold, share with the people you love, preserve for future generations, or simply keep as yours.
Connection with other transplant recipients who understand your experience without translation, people you could not have found anywhere else.
Clarity around what you have actually lived through, not just the medical facts, but the meaning underneath them and who you have become because of them.
A path to publication, if that calls to you. Participants who wish to pursue the Transplant Narrative Anthology will have a guide for every step of that process.
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 certified health coach and yoga teacher with twenty-five 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.
The Transplant Narrative Project exists because I could not find it when I needed it. I built it so that no one else has to go looking.
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Enrollment is limited to 10 participants. September 2026 cohort.
What if I have never written before?
This program was designed specifically for transplant recipients, not for people with writing experience. You do not need to know where to begin, how to structure a story, or what good writing looks like. The prompts, the teaching, and the structure will guide you through every step. What you bring is the experience. That is enough.
Which organ recipients can participate?
Any transplant recipient is welcome, regardless of organ type. The experience of transplant, the waiting, the uncertainty, the surgery, the recovery, the identity shifts that follow, crosses all organ lines. Everyone in the room will understand what you have been through.
Do I have to share my writing?
Sharing is always optional throughout the program. What you write belongs entirely to you, and you can share as much or as little as you choose in any session. Many participants find that sharing becomes something they want to do as the weeks progress, but there is no expectation and no pressure.
What if my story feels incomplete or hard to access?
Most participants feel exactly that way when they arrive. The program is specifically designed to help you discover and organize the pieces of your story over time. You do not need to know what your story is before you begin. Finding out is part of what the twelve weeks are for.
What if I can’t make a session live?
Every session is recorded, and recordings are provided to all participants. Attending live is valuable, the energy of being present in the room together is part of what makes the writing land differently, but your access to the material is never dependent on your schedule.
When does the next cohort begin?
The next cohort opens in September 2026. Priority Enrollment participants will be notified before public enrollment opens and will receive first access. Reserving your seat now guarantees your place in the September cohort at a $50 deposit applied to your full tuition.
Not because it is inspirational. Not because someone else needs to hear it. Because it is yours. And after everything you have lived through, that is reason enough.
Reserve My SeatLimited to 10 participants · September 2026 · $597 full tuition · $50 deposit applied