Course Overview

Overview

You can finish the thing. The hard part is letting it go. Most perfectionist writers ship, then re-edit, then re-ship, then quietly hate the original ship. We’re going to break the touching habit. Six weeks of structured ship-and-leave practice. Each week one piece goes out the door, and you do not return to it. We’ll address how that feels (bad, then fine, then liberating). Comes with the famous ‘I am no longer the editor of this piece’ contract you sign with yourself. Six weeks. Thirty lessons. By the end you’ll have shipped six pieces AND not touched any of them. The not-touching is the deliverable.

What’s inside

• 6 modules, 30 lessons + ship contract — focused on the detachment, not the production
• Mindset Maven Test that names YOUR specific post-ship touching pattern
• 6 guided meditations averaging 10 minutes — paired to the weekly ship-and-walk practice
• Toolkit: the Ship Contract Template + the Post-Ship No-Touch Protocol Card
• Lifetime access, unlimited retakes — touching habits re-grow; come back when they do
• Companion blog post per module — public, perfect for the friend who keeps editing her published posts

Who this is for

• The blogger who edits her published posts for weeks after publication
• The podcaster who pulls episodes and re-records them six months later
• The brand storyteller who keeps refining the brand story years after launch
• The comedian who rewrites a bit she’s already performed eight times

FAQs

What if the piece genuinely has a typo or error?
Module 3 covers the narrow exception protocol — genuine factual errors can be corrected; cosmetic touching cannot. The exception is narrow on purpose.

Won’t this lead to lower quality?
No. The Five-Pass Editing System (BM-086) covers quality. This course addresses what happens AFTER quality work is done. Shipping is its own skill; detaching is its own skill.

What’s the ship contract?
A signed agreement with yourself stating ‘I am no longer the editor of this piece’ once you press publish. The contract is laminated by some students. Most just print and sign. The signing matters.

Is this for fiction writers too?
Yes — Module 5 covers fiction-specific shipping (book publication, post-launch handling). The principles apply across forms.

My therapist suggested I take this. Is it therapeutic?
It’s not therapy — it’s a structured behavior-modification course for the touching habit. But it can be a useful adjunct to therapy work on perfectionism (several therapists have referred clients to it).

Can I retake?
Yes. Unlimited. Touching habits re-grow during quiet seasons; rebuild the protocol whenever you notice you’re touching again.

What one student said

★★★★☆

“My therapist suggested I take this. I bought it under duress. The contract with myself is taped to my desk. I still touch the shipped poems sometimes — about half as often as before. I notice now when I touch them, which I didn’t before. The course did not fix me; my therapist had told me it wouldn’t. It did move the needle. Four stars because shipping-and-walking-away is still not a thing I do reliably, and I want anyone reading this review to have honest expectations.”

— Pia R., poet (bought it on her therapist’s recommendation)