A creative practice for writing about your life, work and what you're here for.
The foundational practices to get you going.
Lived-In Words.
For women who think and feel deeply and are ready for their words to live outside of their minds.
We don’t need more words.
We’re surrounded by a damn deluge of them.
But, they’re lifeless. Transactional. Made for the internet. Copied and pasted. Social media-trend-driven.
What we need is more meaningful, lived-in, a bit undone, raw, gutsy, human words. Words that have so much life crammed into them that a machine could never.
If you don’t think you have something to say, you do. If you don’t think you can write, you can. We can’t lose our words. Our words are heirlooms for those to come. We need to write about our lives.
I’ve created two practices so you never run out of stuff to write about, can give words to all the ideas, thoughts, and interests living in your mind, and remember that makes-you-feel-something kind of writing is connection first, technique second.
The Daily Practice and The Working Document are where Lived-in Words gets going.
They're the foundations of the full live programme (coming soon) and you can start them right now, because we need to get your words up and out into the world. We’ve got to get our writing game together.
This is for you.
If you’ve been saying that you need to get back into writing, but it never feels like the right time
If your first instinct is to use Claude or ChatGPT, then realise that your writing don’t sound like you
If you create content and write for work (or your brand) and want your words to sound more like you
If you’re in the middle of a career transition and need a space to process what’s here and what’s next
If you’ve lost self-trust and confidence, and have convinced yourself you’re not a “good” writer
If you have a newsletter, Substack or creative project that isn’t quite coming through
The Foundations.
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I don’t care what anyone says, you become a great writer, not just by writing all the time and learning the techniques, but by being observant. Being a witness to life. Noticing the small stuff that most people walk past and choosing to document them.
I know how threatening that blank page can be, so we’re not going to bother starting there. We’re going to start right here in your life and everything that exists around you.
If you want to get back into a devoted rhythm with your creativity and writing, find inspiration for your work and art when you’re short on time, and feel more connected to yourself, other people, and everything that exists here, this is for you.
What’s included:
8-minute video guiding you through the practice
Proof of Life, mini digital magazine
2-minute video tutorial to set up your notes app
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Digital practices, at your own pace
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“So, what do you do?”
I don’t know what you do, but I know you’re more than a job title. You’re more than a neat and tidy answer, because there’s so much more to you than just that. The Working Document is a one-page seasonal, editable space to hold all parts of who you are. It’s a space to document your interests, inner world, what’s bothering you and what’s moving you. In this season of your life. Not forever. Just in this moment.
As that’s who we are. Working documents. Always changing, moving, adapting. This gives you the opportunity to allow yourself to be in transition, edit things out, add and remove things. It becomes a homepage for yourself. To write about your life. Not just for the internet, but for the art of it.If you want a dedicated space to show up for yourself, write about yourself and have somewhere for all of your ideas, feelings, and visions to go, then this is for you. Your own document to refer back to, that becomes the source material for everything else you write, create, and make.
What’s included:
6-minute video guiding you through the practice
A Google Doc Working Document template to return to
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The Foundations Bundle | £35
Daily and Seasonal. Somewhere to witness and another place to hold it all. Together, The Daily Practice and Working Document move you through being in conversation with life, noticing and jotting down what comes to you. Practices that help you to archive your existence.
Then, it all comes together in the Working Document, a piece of writing that you come back to each season, that lives, grows and evolves with you.
What’s included:
Everything in The Daily Practice
Everything in The Working Document
£7 saving on buying separately
What shifts during this practice:
You start to see your multiplicity and rich inner world as the source of your brilliance and not a burden.
You release the pressure of being one static thing. The Working Document gives the language and space to hold all parts of you.
Your words change. Because you’re writing from inside your life, instead of being fixated on an output.
And why me?
I created this because I was sick and tired of squeezing myself into courses, 6-step methods, and practices that weren’t built for the way I think, feel, create and make meaning of the world around me.
I’m an author (Take It In), speaker and writer whose writing has appeared in Vogue, Stylist, Red, ELLE and Women's Health. I've worked with nearly a thousand people worldwide in one-to-one sessions and workshops.
But more important than any of that, I’m a woman of depth. A multi-dimensional woman with a rich inner world. I know how heavy it can feel to have so much good stuff inside you and no dedicated practice for getting it out into the world.
Lived-in Words does that.
Nadia Meli
Ready to go deeper with it?
Lived-In Words, is a live, four-week, online group writing programme.
A gathering of women who think and feel deeply, who want to spend time in devotion to their self-expression. Using the world around them as the raw material for the words they write.
Find out more here or register your interest below
for the Autumn/Winter 2026 cohort.