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Story, Value & Cost
Your Story
Is an Asset
The Most Valuable—and Most Expensive—Thing You Own
A three-hour to full-day writing workshop with Dr. Sagashus.
Understand how your story is shaping your choices. Recognize the value of what you’ve lived and learned. Write a fuller story that gives you more room to act.
Leave with a written reflection on your story’s value and cost, a revised narrative, and one next action you choose for yourself.
Bring This Workshop to Your Group →Public sessions coming soon
What has your story given you?
What are you still paying for?
An experience can happen once while the story we tell about it continues to shape our lives. It can influence whether we speak up, ask for support, pursue an opportunity, or believe a different future is available to us.
Some stories have protected us. Some carry wisdom we need. Some keep asking us to pay a price we no longer want to pay.
Story
Who held the pen?
Separate what happened from what you decided it meant, so an inherited belief or an old interpretation does not have to make every new decision for you.
Value
What wisdom do you carry?
Name the knowledge, strengths, and perspective your experience holds, so you can recognize what you bring into your next chapter.
Cost
What are you ready to release?
Notice what continuing to live from this story costs, so you can choose what to carry forward and what you are ready to question.
A fuller story.
More deliberate choices.
A next act that belongs to you.
This workshop is for people who are ready for a change, want to write about their lives, or know their experience holds wisdom they have not yet named.
Through guided writing, reflection, and conversation, you will examine the stories you carry, consider what else is true, and practice writing a version with more room for complexity and possibility.
01 · Take stock
Your Story’s Ledger
Create a written account of what your story has given you and what it has cost. Identify value you want to reclaim and a price you no longer want to keep paying.
02 · Write again
A revised narrative
Honor what happened while including the wisdom, context, and possibilities the earlier version left out. Give yourself language for a fuller account of your life.
03 · Choose what stays
Your Revision Contract
Name what you are keeping, releasing, reclaiming, and choosing to carry forward. Put your intentions into words you can return to.
04 · Put it into motion
One next act
Choose a concrete action connected to the story you are writing now: asking for support, speaking up, pursuing an opportunity, returning to a writing project, or making a choice you’ve postponed.
The Most Valuable—and Most Expensive—Thing You Own
Writing, Repairing & Reimagining Our Stories
Dr. Sagashus · Infamous Mothers
A workbook that keeps the work going.
Your companion workbook gives you a place to return to the questions after the workshop.
- Who Held the Pen? Examine the people, places, and systems that shaped your story.
- What Else Is True? Make room for context and possibilities you may have overlooked.
- Repair Does Not Require Erasure. Honor what happened while allowing more than one truth to exist.
- My Revision Contract. Name what you’re choosing to carry forward and your next act.
You do not have to make pain beautiful. You can honor what happened and make room for what else is true.
Three hours to a full day
Bring this work to your people.
We shape the session around your audience, learning goals, and available time. A full-day format allows more time for writing, reflection, and conversation.
Nonprofits & community groups
Create space for participants to examine identity, recognize the knowledge within their experience, and choose a meaningful next step.
High schools & colleges
Offer age-appropriate writing and reflection on identity, belonging, inherited expectations, and future possibilities.
Companies & teams
Invite people to examine assumptions about their abilities and possibilities, articulate their experience, and identify a next action relevant to their work and growth.
Libraries & writing groups
Bring people together to write, reflect, and develop a fuller account of their lives.
Choose how you join us.
Individual Sessions
Coming soon
Public workshop dates and pricing will be announced here.
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Meet Dr. Sagashus.
Dr. Sagashus Levingston is a writer, founder of Infamous Mothers®, and a PhD in Literature.
Drawing from her memoir, A Pot to P*ss In, she brings storytelling, writing, reflection, and conversation into a workshop where participants can examine the stories they carry and practice writing what comes next.
Do I need writing experience?
No. Guided prompts help you begin wherever you are. Bring your story and a willingness to reflect.
Do I have to share personal writing?
No. You choose what to write and what, if anything, to share. You decide how far to go.
How long is the workshop?
Three hours to a full day. We discuss the format, audience, and goals when planning your session.
Can we bring it to our school or organization?
Yes. Contact us with your audience, approximate group size, preferred dates, and goals to start planning an appropriate session.
You are still writing.
Honor what happened. Make room for what else is true.
Choose your next act.