About Us
Write to Thrive is a reflective and creative writing-based enterprise, started by Lucy Flood and Matt Daly, that shares diverse writing practices grounded in current research on the benefits of expressive writing for wellness, engagement and productivity. We work with diverse audiences of individuals and professional communities to create writing-based activities and experiences that help people thrive.
Our intention is to help people live more fully, more joyfully and elegantly, using reflective and creative writing to foster new growth and self-nourishment.
The programming is currently grounded in a journal called Emerge: An interactive Journal to Help You Face Challenges and Thrive, and contains eleven writing invitations we have crafted during the course of multiple workshops. These invitations allow for deep reflection and creative engagement for people emerging from challenging experiences.
Lucy and Matt have been writing partners, coaches and friends for more than a decade. While teaching and coaching others, in their own writing partnerships they discovered that guided reflection and creation helped each of them live and work more fully. They have developed Write to Thrive in order to share the work that they know, from both research into expressive writing practices as well as their first-hand experience, can help you feel better equipped to emerge from recent challenges with a sense of well-being, joy, resilience and enthusiasm for the next chapter.
Lucy Flood
Lucy Flood has written for The Atlantic, InsideClimate News, The Jackson Hole News and Guide, The Louisville Courier Journal, and Berkeleyside, in addition to other places. She helps creative professionals and corporate and non-profit teams to ignite their creativity and flourish in their work and life contexts. She also has led writing workshops for Writers in the Park, the University of Texas at Austin, and groups of professionals in the Bay Area. As a journalist, editor and a consultant, she draws on her broad understanding of what makes people thrive: in the realms of movement, mindfulness, self-compassion, stress, yoga, mindset interventions, the science of happiness and more. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University in Human Biology, as well as an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from The University of Texas at Austin. Middlebury College also awarded her an environmental journalism fellowship. Lucy lives in Colorado with her husband and child. She enjoys writing under the grape vine in her garden.
Matt Daly
Matt Daly is the author of Between Here and Home (Unsolicited Press) and the chapbook Red State (Seven Kitchens Press). He edited the chapbook Untrapped for Wyoming Untrapped. Matt is the recipient of a Neltje Blanchan Award for writing inspired by the natural world and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council. His poems have appeared in publications including Pilgrimage, The Cortland Review, and High Desert Journal as well as the Sixteen Rivers Press anthology America, We Call Your Name. Matt makes text-based art independently and in collaboration with visual, performing, and literary artists. His work has been exhibited in Jackson, Pinedale and New York. Matt is on the faculty of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference. He also teaches reflective and creative writing for medical professionals, educators, college and secondary students, and others interested in the literary arts.