About Me — Marijke McCandless

Awareness Practitioner. Playfulness Instigator. Writer

Photo Credit: Chad Thompson

Hello Medium readers and writers! I am so happy to be here.

I ask myself, who am I? Then chuckle in response for that is the question that has driven me for the last twenty-five years. It is the question that drives me to write, the question that drives me to seek and the question that inspires me to be playful.

Let’s answer it this way.

I think of myself as an awareness practitioner, a playfulness instigator and a writer.

I am half type-A perfectionist and half creative wild messy spirit. Over the years, I’ve come to embrace this dichotomy of being, for I’ve discovered it is the key to living life imperfectly but with great delight.

I offer an online writing practice, Write Now Mind, where we practice getting out of our own way and discover the wild messy authentic words trapped inside. We get to know ourselves. I also offer something I call Juicy Practices for Getting Present as well as other immersion experiences in meditation, writing and enlivenment.

I am the author of an award-winning memoir called More…Journey to mystical union through the sacred and the profane, which documents my own spiritual journey and was published under a pen name in…