Chelsea Palermo

Poet. Intuitive. Alchemist.

I facilitate the transformation of your narratives through healing writing, energetic shifts, and intuitive guidance, to empower your voice, and realign you with your creative powers, as you claim your story in it’s fullest expression and step into clarity of your life’s vision.

As a poet, intuitive and energy alchemist, I blend multi-modalities and disciplines into a distilled practice that yields potent and powerful transformations.

Not only do I facilitate the work, I embody this. Daily, I use these modalities in my own spiritual writing practice, as I unearth pieces, and continue to move forward on my path to heal and clear my energetic body and the body of my writing.

Mission & Purpose

To teach you how to use writing as a healing, spiritual and energetic practice.

To show you a new pathway for your transformation and creation.

To guide you in accordance with divine guidance as you clear your story.

My Journey

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The First Entry

The peace that surrounded me as I pressed the pencil into the page of my first journal entry at 9 years old remains a distinct memory. Here was my solace. Here was my truth. And here was my voice, clear, strong and heard; if only to be heard by the page, the silence, the mystery and myself in reflection. This gift stayed with me, and shaped me in essential ways.

I continued to write near daily since that first day I rooted myself into this practice. At 13, the journaling shifted to poetry, a place to hold the complications of becoming, the difficulties of domestic violence, and the intergenerational trauma playing out in my family constellation. While not aware of these terms and this wisdom-- yet, the work and movements were held on the page. That is-- I could find myself on the page.

Here was my solace. Here was my Truth. Here was my voice.

Navigating Trauma Through Writing & Energy

In my early 20s, during my undergrad studies in English and writing, I moved through the loss of my son's biological father. My sense of my own writing shifted. Writing became an anchor. My ability to sense, see and feel energy opened further. To be present with both the energy and the writing was a part of the navigational process as I moved through the trauma before me.

My grief was held by words & poetry. Poetry & writing offered support, truth, mystery, and the courage to reach into the darkness and pull forward and towards me the hardest parts of my life. The ability to transmute, to find air, and breathe, amongst what appeared to be sometimes the cruelty of living, yet, also the mercy threaded throughout with light was found on the page.

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a new passage & Channel

In 2012, I began my MFA in Poetry at Drew University. I came home from my first low -residency program energetically sensing a wall of poems behind me. I was being asked to return to the scene of my own wreck, to move through and return to the tragedy that had befallen, five years earlier. I told myself that if I lived through it, I could write through it. A new passage and channel of the journey unfolded: self-study, excavating my own trauma as teacher, taking notes on process, while studying the craft of writing with beloved mentors.

During this period, I worked as a Behavioral Assistant for teens and families in crisis. Here, I learned how to hone deeply into another person's story. The gift of whole body listening, and energetically feeling, and sensing into the timelines and storylines of trauma began to sharpen and focus. I was able to see the point of crisis and feel into shifts asking to occur. I have taken these gifts, honing and harnessing this into my work with my clients today.

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Unfold the Wisdom

In 2016, I transitioned to teaching writing as an English Professor. I began research into the neuroscience and studies on the ways in which writing heals the body and mind, while crafting and holding the essence of healing writing in my body. The teachings I had been carrying in my heart space funneled out. I sat in meditation, listening to fuse together and unfold the wisdom held, channeling the writing as it flowed through me onto the pages. As I deepened my own practices, and moved deeper into my own healing, I began to offer the teachings to others.

In 2018, I was called into the art of Reiki. This opened new energetic windows. The healing writing work began to more visibly intersect with the spiritual world, and opened doorways further into the energetic world of healing and writing.

In 2021, I moved through another energetic opening in which further intuitive gifts were received. I spent the year in deep study with several teachers, fine tuning the workings of not only writing to heal, but the energetic mysteries of the practice to be able to behold the essence of the writing on the page, and attuning to the workings of my clairvoyant sight. I also completed my Master Reiki Practitioner Training.

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accepting the path

In full awareness that the healing writing wanted to come into communion with the intuitive gifts, and energy, I began the work of accepting this part of the path. The pathways of healing, and weaving modalities into the writing work continues. In 2022, I completed training in Somatic Attachment Therapy, and as a Resilient Heart Practitioner. Presently, I am studying the Akashic Records.

The path is wide, well worn, and lit with much light. My journey has led me towards continuous study of writing, and healing on many levels. The synergy of mind, body, spirit, and the ways in which we move through healing, or the ways healing moves through us, has been a steady path in the forefront of my work.

I continue in devotion to these practices, the pathways through which writing can heal, the energy that weaves and is part of all that we are, seen and unseen.

It is with gratitude and reverence, I bring forth the teachings of how to use writing as transformation, as soul expression. It is my honor to present the methods of writing to heal, to facilitate the transformation of your life, your relationship with the written word, your story, and to connect you more deeply with your spiritual and creative self.

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Praise

I knew when I saw Chelsea and how she was able to read the audience during the workshops she was going to be very helpful. She knew when we needed to stray, and where we needed to go. I don’t think I would have ever made a move towards any kind of healing without the writing classes. I would have gone the rest of my life minimizing with no clue to the level of trauma that was in my cells waiting to be acknowledged and healed. Lots of work left to do, but I have come so far. Thankful for Chelsea and her workshops and classes.

Kathleen Shea Kirstein Late Discovery Adoptee, Retired Nurse, Writer & Artist. Writing to Heal the Trauma of DNA Surprise

Chelsea’s classes and her teachings on poetry and writing changed me as writer and a person. I now have a pretty strong daily writing practice because of Chelsea and her help and guidance, especially during the pandemic in her daily class. We wrote everyday. And that little group was what we all needed. Her class helped us process the happenings of the world in the moment, and even intergenerational trauma. Chelsea’s practice within the group and with other sessions I have had with her have truly changed my writing practice. I am forever grateful for that.

Laura Ginsberg Artist, Author, Educator

Chelsea Palermo brings a deep understanding of poetry and writing to her energy-based workshops. Using her gifts as a poet, medium and healer, she helps participants tap into resources buried in their subconscious as they work to unearth creative flow and new ideas. The results are electric and insightful -- I left Chelsea’s workshop with drafts and ideas not only for one poem, but for a new area of exploration. If you are feeling blocked or stagnated, her workshops will help you push through obstacles to uncover new material, new concepts and new directions in your work. If you are looking to focus your writing or discover something new about your own creative process, I highly recommend that you attend her workshop. You will be glad you did.

Mary BrancaccioAuthor of "Fierce Geometry: Poems"

I’ve been lucky to catch several of Chelsea’s workshops at the Waterwitch Cafe. It’s usually a mix of new and experienced poets. Chelsea has gift for making her workshops engaging and challenging for advanced published poets, while at the same time encouraging and inspiring new poets. In her workshops, everyone is equal. She puts the focus on art, and not the ego, letting everyone connect and feel comfortable. She knows how to nurture a good poem out of just about anyone.

Ann KestnerFounder, Poetry Breakfast

The Write Journey is a very appropriate name for the collection of writing workshops facilitated by Chelsea Palermo. It is not so much what I am learning about writing that has transformed my work, but rather what I have uncovered about myself. The daily “Write to Release” group has opened my mind to interpreting poetry in a way I never have before, taking other’s work to relate to my own experiences and emotions. Interacting with like-minded people has brought consistentcy to my writing pracice, as well as helped me navigate my own poetic, and spiritual journey. I recommend this class to anyone who is trying to awaken the dormant parts of themselves.

Jill DonadioMA in Non-Fiction from JHU, Memoirist, Personal Essayist, Poet

Certificates & Practitioner of

Usui Reiki Master
Somatic Attachment Therapy
Life Story Coach
Resilient Heart Practitioner
Behavioral Assistant
Sacred Awakenings Akashic Records Practitioner

Professional Experience

Wherever you are in your story, your life, and your writing, I can support you move to the next step. Whether you have never written before, were a once writer, or are a highly published author, these practices are for you.

Are you are on a spiritual journey, but looking for a more embodied way to trace the story lines of your journey, connect with your higher self, and take a look at what you have come here to heal on the page? I can show you a new way.

I help you transform trauma wounds through writing, while connecting you to your divine authentic voice so you can continue on your path in alignment of your truest, fullest expression.

Method & Approach

Through mutlifold and multimodal approach to the work, I hold the writing both from the view of the writer highly tuned into the craft of the work, and as an intuitive energy worker, able to sense and hold, see and feel the energy of the writing, and the story behind the writing.

Rooted in the realm of healing, all work is held in the field of unearthing, exploration, authenticity, expression and truth as move towards the transformation of your stories, and the parts of you seeking healing.

In all sessions, I connect with the divine, tap into deep listening, and set myself to tune into the energetics and information present on and off the page. This ability to tune into the work offers me a unique perspective, and insights to share with you. In working with me, we set the intention to invite a synergy between your soul, your writing, your willingness to heal, and the divine.

This work blends the pillars of the craft of writing, spiritual guidance, and healing work, as one practice every step of the way. From the onset of the work, we are engaging in a spiritual writing practice, and coming to the understanding that the craft and process of writing, moves us into the spiritual and that these can co-exist and support one another at all times.

Together we explore the writer’s path as the spiritual path. Together in truth we begin to shift the energy, the language, hold space, and listen. I guide you to ground into truth, clarity, expression , connection and creativity as we harness the tools before us to move through transmuting the story, the energy, the language. The practices harness neuroscience, metaphysics, psychology, and the craft of writing. I teach you to trust yourself as we release, and shift again and again.

It begins with your story. It begins with you, and your connection to the parts of you that are asking for healing. This process is a little bit of magic, a lot of bit of faith, and is hinged on the written word, in all her forms. Those words are your words, as we move into uncovering and recovering parts of yourself, through story, poems, journaling and divine guidance.

I invite you to come to writing through the healing lens and to begin this journey of allowing yourself to be heard, with the knowingness that writing is an act of transformation.