Roots and Branches

On cultivating joy + rhythm

Creativity makes us human. It’s big, powerful magic: It’s the magic that drives life-saving medicine and soul-soothing music.

It’s the magic that guides me as I write my books and co-create my ferments with unseen communities that outnumber the people on this planet.

Our joy is a catalyst for that magic: It becomes bigger, more powerful, more world changing, and it grows each time we access it.

I found myself falling out of joy with my work several years ago: When I started to become known for a specific creative output (books, plus fermentation classes) and so felt pressure to perform a certain way to do that work.
It turns out by the way that you don’t need to perform as anything but yourself to be a writer or to teach, but that lesson took me a minute to learn. Anyhow…

I wanted to fall back into creative joy with my work because I know how much it matters: I have at least one person a month tell me that reading my book inspired them to write their own. Or convinced them such a thing was even possible.
And that’s what I kept going back to: I needed to reconnect with my joy for myself, yes, but because when I’m in flow with it that’s the kind of magic that can happen.

In other words, other people are inspired to make their own creative magic when they witness your own! It’s some pretty incredible stuff.
It’s true for your work too: When you’re writing in connection with your creative flow, you’re changing the world for more than yourself.

And so I got back to basics: Reconnecting with what I loved just a bit at a time, and reconnecting to my own creative rhythms.

And I remembered that when creative joy expands in one part of our lives, it expands in all of them.

Over time, I’ve found a way to work with my own creative rhythms to manifest the life I most deeply desire.

And the way I do it is to think about my creativity, and about the practice of manifestation, like the breath: We need to breathe out as much as in, and we need the pauses between breath as much as we need action.

What do you, dear creative, need to release in order to receive your next big ideas and inspiration?

Where does your body, and your creative spirit, ask you to pause and take a moment to rest, and where do you feel called to move and create?

When you start to reflect on and feel into when you naturally feel drawn to certain parts of your creative cycle, you can start to craft your practice around that cycle, so your creative practice ultimately works for you.

Metamorphosis

I’ve created a very special new self-paced program for writers and other creatives who want to tap into their creative rhythms: and to use those rhythms to manifest their deepest, most important work.

Every program I offer has a nature theme, and after reflecting on the name for this one, Metamorphosis felt the most appropriate: Because when you tap into your own unique rhythms, the transformation available to you is, quite frankly, jaw-droppingly powerful.

This program takes just a few hours: And is one you can return to again and again as you deepen into your own rhythms.

And, this week, take 20% off Metamorphosis, and my whole course catalog, with the code INTUITION.

This is big magic, and it’s magic you can have and create! If you’re ready to reconnect to your creative joy and watch it ripple out through your life, come join me.

Your creativity moves through you like your breath: How are you tapping into your own creative rhythms this week?