Kim Green’s Stories, Lessons & Insights

We recently had the chance to connect with Kim Green and have shared our conversation below.

Kim, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What are you being called to do now, that you may have been afraid of before?
I have been called to work with women to help them using therapeutic writing. It had been my dream to create a woman’s retreat, and in 2024, I created the You Have the Write to Heal Women’s Retreat. It was an amazing experience for the participants and a powerful growth experience for me! The 2025 retreat is coming up next month, and I have a long waiting list already for 2026! What I want readers to know is that we must respond to what call us. This retreat was not built from a “complaint,” it was built from a place of compassion for women who have been silenced by life. As an author and writing coach, I have personally witnessed that writing can transform and save. After being divorced twice, diagnosed with a chronic illness, and being a single parent, I have suffered through some of life’s greatest disappointments. After writing it out, I was able to heal and see those experiences as the heartbreaks that have made me the unstoppable and compassionate person that I want to be. I want my sisters to find themselves, their gifts and most of all self-love, despite what has happened to them. We all have the write to heal.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Kim Green, and I am an author, writer, editor, and writing coach. My company is called Blank Page Consulting because
every day is a blank page; a new start. We each have the responsibility to fill in the blanks with our truth. I have also founded the You Have the Write to Heal Women’s Retreat. What makes my coaching practice and retreat unique is that not only do I work with authors to create the book of their dreams, but I also created a retreat because I saw the impact that writing and sisterhood has on women. Writing helps women, especially to find their voice. My brand is experience. Yes, I do have a degree. and credentials, but what my clients feel is most refreshing is that my work comes from my once broken heart, which grew to a place of wholeness and peace. My work is not theoretical; it comes from hard-lived experiences. My soul has always pushed me to shed fear and a refusal to be silenced, despite what was happening to me. That is what I want to give women who have not yet discovered their strength and brilliance.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
This is a great question because I realize that it was my Principal, and it happened when I was sitting in her office. I was one of a handful of students of color in a “fancy” prep school in New York City. I had been sent to the office because of my repeated classroom shenanigans. The principal said to me, “Kim, you can be anything you want to be. You are a leader and can lead people to do good or bad. You can choose.” That really created a shift in my approach to being with people. As a rowdy pre-teen, I was acting out because of personal issues like my other dying on the NYC subway. But this moment saw who I truly was and that I could be just as loud with positive leadership, instead of causing chaos. It was a monumental shift that I don’t think about until this question. I now only want to lead people to the core of their beauty.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
There have been many defining wounds, but I guess the first was the death of my mother. I healed through writing, which not only gave me relief and took me through a terrible time for a teenager, it was my calling. Her sudden and unusual death (on the subway) was the catalyst for me to share writing’s potency with the world.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
I have committed to the growth of my You Have the Write to Heal Retreat. Currently, it is an annual event that serves only 14 women a year, but momentum is occurring. There have been invitations to bring it to other cities, and a possibility of doing two retreats annually. I want to see the retreat grow to a place that is a go-to for women in need of finding their voices. I don’t want it to grow too much in group size because the intimacy of the group is what makes it possible for the participants to open up. However, in its most perfect form, the retreat will be a known way to heal through writing, and I want to be the poster child!

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
That truth and authenticity are the only things we have to rely on if we want peace. All of the places that we live without authenticity, will end in tears. Truth hurts, and people generally hate to be confronted with it, but I have witnessed how being truthful and honest creates lasting breakthroughs. Being a truthful person doesn’t make you the most popular person in the room but it makes you the most valuable.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.wordsllc.com
• Instagram: kimgreenauthor
• Linkedin: @linkedin/KimGreen
• Facebook: facebook/Kim Green

Image Credits
Feature picture: Michelle Owens, Artifact Photography Studio

Other pictures: Lcukie Photos