Approaching the Body

The experience of Miella on one of Sally’s Instagram live sessions.

Sally Bayley changed not only how I write, but how I read. She gave me the language to see what can happen on the page, the possibilities it holds, and showed me that it all begins with compassion and empathy. Her methods have freed me. I no longer feel the pressure to tell a story as some authoritative narrator. I am in conversation with my characters, sharing their lives so that we might deepen our own.

Sally approaches the body on the page in ways that are not typical. As someone living with a chronic health condition, that has been deeply impactful and validating. She writes with a care that deepens the humanity and dignity of every story she tells. My writing, and my reading, will never be the same.

— Miella Cocquemas, writer