Underrated Life Skills
A Writing Workshop with Cory Allen
Learn to write your way into clarity, calm, and deeper self-trust.
There are life skills no one teaches, but without them, life feels heavier than it needs to.
Skills like knowing when to walk away.
Resting when the world tells you to push harder.
Letting go of the need to always be understood.
These are the skills that bring peace, clarity, and self-trust. The ones that change everything—but get buried under urgency, noise, and self-doubt.
This workshop is a quiet return to what you’ve always known deep down.
Through reflective writing, mindfulness practice, and honest conversation, you’ll explore six underrated life skills that will help you slow down, hear yourself again, and start living with more intention and inner strength.
What We’ll Explore Together
Letting people be wrong about you
This is one of the most freeing forms of growth. Through guided prompts, you’ll reflect on where you’ve over-explained or over-proved yourself—and what it might feel like to simply… stop. We'll talk about the quiet strength in not needing to be understood by everyone, and how living from your values releases your fear of being misseen.
Knowing when to walk away
We’ll write about how to recognize when something—an idea, a relationship, a version of yourself—has run its course. You'll explore how it feels to leave with grace, not guilt, and to trust that peace is a valid reason to let go.
Leaving behind what no longer aligns
This section invites honest, unfiltered writing around the parts of your life that feel heavy, outdated, or untrue. We'll explore the difference between giving up and releasing, and how to create space for what supports your next chapter.
Being okay with not having all the answers
We’ll write our way into the unknown, into the open space where clarity doesn’t come on demand. This part of the workshop is about becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and learning how to sit with questions instead of forcing conclusions.
Enjoying where you are without rushing to what’s next
Through mindfulness and reflective writing, you’ll reconnect with the present moment. Not as a place to get through, but as a place to be. We'll explore how to find depth and meaning in the now, rather than chasing the next thing.
Knowing when to rest instead of forcing progress
You’ll examine your relationship with effort, achievement, and urgency. What does it feel like to pause instead of push? What if resting is a form of forward motion? We'll explore how to build a more sustainable, self-honoring rhythm.
What You’ll Take With You
Writing that reflects your truth, not your to-do list
More peace with where you are and who you are
A clearer sense of what’s no longer worth carrying
Gentle tools for self-inquiry and daily presence
A quiet confidence that doesn’t need to prove itself
This workshop isn’t about performing or producing—it’s about returning.
To your inner voice. To what feels real. To your own rhythm.
Join Cory Allen for an afternoon of underrated life skills—and the radical healing that lives in letting go, mental clarity, and self-trust.
Meet Cory
Cory Allen is an author, coach, podcaster, and influencer from Austin, Texas.
Allen writes daily thoughts on mindfulness and mental clarity for his large Instagram following (@heycoryallen), reaching over ten million people a week.
On his podcast, he discusses how to live better through teachings on mindfulness, mental clarity, and personal growth. Cory’s podcast has had millions of downloads, received over a thousand five-star ratings, and been featured by The New York Times.
Cory’s first book, titled Now Is the Way, was published by Penguin Random House on September 24, 2019. His second book, Brave New You, was published on June 25, 2024.
Cory has been a daily meditator for over 25 years. He decided to share his approach in the online meditation courses called Release Into Now and Coming Home. Since then, he’s taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods.
Join us
Date: Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm EST
Cost: $47