Mentorship
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A Companion for Reflection, Rhythm, and Renewal
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery is a free, digital companion for writers, artists, and individuals cultivating authorship in their creative and personal lives. Originally developed as part of my one-on-one mentorship practice, it now lives as a self-paced invitation into the work of creative restoration.
Structured around themes of attention, devotion, and rhythm, the Field Guide offers prompts, reflective exercises, and creative frameworks designed to help you locate yourself in language again—to meet your voice where it truly lives, not where you’ve been taught to perform.
This is not a workbook or a self-help manual. It’s a portable studio: a space for pause and process, a map for rebuilding creative trust. You can move through it at your own pace, returning as needed to what deepens you.
Whether you’re writing toward recovery, renewal, or refinement of craft, the Field Guide is an open door back to your own authorship.
Format: Digital PDF, free to download
Use: Self-guided or as part of mentorship work
Community Care Initiative
Why I’m Offering This Freely
I am a single mother, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing shaped by recovery and reverence. I’ve spent years balancing classrooms and caregiving, literature and living—raising children while teaching others to write their way toward clarity, while writing myself into coherence.
Much of my life has unfolded in spaces that value polish over truth, performance over presence. I’ve always been a little outside: too raw for academia, too literary for the mainstream, too spiritual for the marketplace. Still, I’ve built a life in the in-between.
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery grew from that place. It’s the framework I developed to help others return to what is quiet, disciplined, and real—the holy of self that exists beyond the gaze. The work that resists perfection, honors complexity, and treats the creative process as an act of both craft and care.
This offering is free because reflection and creative restoration should never hinge on access or privilege. Because language, like belonging, is a right—not a reward.
The practice is simple: to meet yourself without disguise. To make beauty not for approval, but for aliveness.
-Annabelle Fern Praznik, MFA
1:1 Narrative Recovery & Creative Development Mentorship
For individuals in recovery, transition, or creative reinvention.
This is not therapy. It’s a collaborative process of authorship—where language, awareness, and rhythm become tools for self-trust and transformation.
In this 90-minute private session, we locate the stories you’re living inside and begin to rewrite them through reflection, language, and embodied awareness. Each meeting becomes a space to return to yourself, build clarity, and practice new ways of being—without performance, without proving.
Rooted in Annabelle’s MFA, university teaching experience, and CCAR Recovery Coach Professional training, this work bridges literary and recovery-informed approaches to support lasting personal and creative change.
You’ll receive:
A 90-minute private session via Zoom
A complimentary Field Guide to support and structure your session experience
Personalized field notes and writing invitations for continued reflection
Curated resources for integration (readings, meditations, journaling, nervous system regulation practices, and more)
Optional creative or editorial feedback for those incorporating writing or art-making
Full Review: “The Poet’s Room is Onto Something”
Confronting an unexpected early retirement while my daughter steps into adulthood has forced me to reassess my value, identity, and what the future holds. The Poet’s Room Field Guide for Narrative Recovery provides the ideal framework for navigating this transition. Three months into working with Annabelle, I feel more in control of my own narrative, am clearer in my goals, enjoying life more than I have in years, and feeling genuinely prepared for whatever comes next. The best part—positive change has come easily, without feeling overwhelmed or like failure is inevitable. I attribute this to Annabelle’s holistic, multidisciplinary approach grounded in her own experiences and delivered with humility and kindness. Accordingly, I wholeheartedly recommend narrative recovery with Annabelle, especially for those who have felt defeated by failed self-help attempts in the past.
— Amy J. Lambert, PhD
Retired US CDC Microbiologist
This mentorship is for individuals who are:
Moving through recovery, transition, or creative reorientation
Rebuilding identity, rhythm, or trust in self
Seeking coherence between inner work and creative process
Ready to create from steadiness rather than survival
Investment:
Sliding scale and donation-based sessions are available each month through the Community Care Initiative.
Custom session packages available upon request.
New to The Poet’s Room?
Please complete the Mentorship & Editorial Intake Form before booking your first session. This helps ensure we’re a good fit and allows me to tailor your experience from the start.
Returning clients may book directly.