Jenn Koiter
ADHD coach, writing mentor, and breathworker helping writers with ADHD get unstuck.
Bio
About Jenn
Jenn Koiter is an ADHD coach, writing mentor, and breathwork guide who helps writers with ADHD dissolve their writer's block.
After a brutal five-year block of her own, Jenn found her way back to writing through breathwork, mindfulness, and ADHD coaching. She went on to publish a poetry collection, So Much of Everything, and to write and produce the award-winning short film Birds of the Air.
Drawing on her own experience, as well as her training as a coach and breathwork guide, Jenn developed an approach grounded in a simple insight: writer's block can be a vicious cycle in which executive dysfunction and nervous system dysregulation reinforce each other. Breaking that cycle requires addressing both.
Through her Focus & Flow Framework™ and signature Unblocked Breath practice, she helps ADHD writers understand their creative resistance, work with their brains instead of against them, and finally do the writing they long to do.
Creative Pursuits
Featured Work
For Podcast Hosts
Suggested Interview Topics
Why Writer's Block Isn't a Discipline Problem
The two-way loop between executive dysfunction and nervous system dysregulation, and why trying harder only deepens the block.
Your Nervous System Thinks Writing Is Dangerous
How harsh teachers, workshops, rejections, and our own inner critic teach the brain to avoid writing, and why “develop a thick skin” doesn't work.
Your First Draft Isn't Shitty, It's a Baby, and Why “Kill Your Darlings” Is Bad Advice
How gentler metaphors serve us better, and why the way you treat your writing is the way you treat the part of you that writes.
Breathwork for Creativity
How regulating the nervous system opens the door to creative flow, with a short, guided practice host and audience can try.
From Five Years Stuck to Published Poet and Award-Winning Filmmaker
Jenn's recovery story and what actually moved the needle.
Ready-to-Use Prompts
Suggested Interview Questions
You went five years without really writing, and now you help other writers get unstuck. What did that block feel like from the inside?
Many people assume writer's block is a discipline or motivation problem. Why do you say it isn't?
You describe writer's block as a loop between executive dysfunction and nervous system dysregulation. Can you walk us through how one leads to the other?
If someone is avoiding their writing right now, what's one small thing they can try today?
How does breathwork help creativity, and what does it feel like for someone trying it for the first time?
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