The Clear-Out — a Sage & Page companion

Four short writing sessions for the one thing you can't stop thinking about. A conversation, a decision, something that went wrong. You do it once, over about a week, and then you're finished with it.

Each session asks for the same events from a different angle, which is the part that does the work. You write what happened. You write it again using your own name, as if it happened to someone else. You write it from a year in the future. Then you sort what's left into two lists: what still needs something from you, and what's over and you're only still carrying.

Thirteen pages, with room to write on every one.

What's inside

  • How to use it: fifteen minutes a session, four days in the same week
  • A page for picking the one thing, with four questions to narrow it down
  • Session one: what happened, from your side
  • Session two: the same events written about someone with your name
  • Session three: how it reads from a year out
  • Session four: two lists, still live and finished
  • What to do with it afterwards, and what to try if nothing changed

How it arrives

A PDF, emailed straight after you order. Print it, or write on it on a tablet. It's yours to keep and to use again.

Who it's for

Anyone who keeps arriving back at the same thing when they're not busy. It isn't a daily journal, and it doesn't want a paragraph every evening.

This is a companion to Stoicism: 365 Daily Lessons, and it's free with every copy of the book we sell. You can also buy it on its own here.

This companion is for general self-improvement and reflection. It isn't therapy, counselling or medical advice.


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