This is the year we claim our dreams + your last chance for 60% off
It’s your last call to take 60% off all my self-study and group programs, plus intuitive guidance sessions, before the year ends: Use HOLIDAY for 60% off before 12/31.
I love a good list, and late December is full of them: Reflections on the year, resolutions for the new one, recommended readings, etc.
As we reflect, and set resolutions, it can be easy to think small: To choose safe, easy goals over the ones that you really want but will ask some level of transformation on your part.
I’m all about setting small goals to help you reach larger ones, but if we’re setting goals anyway, why not go for the ones that really speak to our desires? We don’t know what the future holds, and we’re here to live these wild and precious lives the way we want to: So why not craft a plan for your year that reflects that?
What if you named the one big, big desire that you want so badly but are almost afraid to speak out loud?
What if 2025 were the year you let yourself claim what you want? What if 2025 was the year you started to make intentional moves towards who you know you want to be?
Here’s my ask for you: Set (at least) one big, pie-in-the-sky dreamy goal.
The one that makes your heart flutter but you’ve never really spoken out loud, or shared beyond your closest circles.
2025 is the year you’re claiming it. Congratulations! Here’s what we’re doing to start making that goal your reality:
Get specific and clear about what it is, and exactly how it looks for you: Because that gives you something real to work towards. BUT it also is an act of naming and claiming your desire: And that intention, in combination with directed action towards your goals, is some serious magic (whatever you apply it towards).
If you want to win awards, don’t just say “I want a Pulitzer”, imagine what having that award would do for you. What doors would it open? Who do you want it to connect you with? What opportunities (a new book? A staff job?) are you hoping would come from that win?
If it’s a money goal (like, I want to make $1 million as a writer which, yes I do please!) give that money a job in your goal setting practice.
In other words, what would making $1 million do for you? What doors would it open? Would you buy a house, open a bookstore, go into publishing, move somewhere, etc.?
Giving your money a job, rather than just focusing on a figure, gives you discrete and tangible things you can take directed action towards (like, say, looking at what it takes to open a bookstore): And those intentional actions will get you to your goal (but just thinking about an abstract figure probably won’t).
This is true for whatever you’re creating: Rather than saying “I want to publish a book”, use that as a jumping off point to imagine what that process and experience looks like, and how it will shape you and your life.
Stay connected to your goal: Repeat it to yourself, make an altar to it, meditate on it, make a vision board (here’s my vision board guide from last year, towards the bottom of the post).
Let yourself imagine it as the best, most wildly wonderful version of your dream that it could possibly be.
If anxiety starts to creep in, or imposter syndrome, or some version of “that’s not possible,” just notice it and let your attention redirect. A mantra I’ve been using a lot lately is “I’m safe to receive this.” Use whatever works for you.
I encourage you to speak your big, scary goals out into the world: I’d love for you to share them in this thread so we can all support each other in our dreams, or email them to me if you want to be witnessed in your work but don’t want to share publicly (my email is hello@root-kitchens.com)
I’ll start:
I want to learn new skills that ask me to be a beginner again (like sword fighting, or spoon carving).
As a writer, I’ll challenge myself to new forms and be willing to share work that feels uncomfortable. I’ll have consistent, well-paid work in the form of a regular column or a part-time staff gig, and I’ll land another book deal.
The big dream as a writer? To be a writer whose work is known and respected around the world, whose work has such an impact that it’s cited for centuries after my death as something that shapes how people view and move through the world.As a business owner, my big dream is to help 1000 people this year. Whether that’s folks taking self-study culinary classes or joining me for a writing coaching program, I want to touch (at least) 1000 people’s lives with the work I do in my businesses.
The big dream? In 10 years, I’ll own a farm in Ireland, where we’ll offer retreats rooted in interdisciplinary creative living that includes time for writing, exploring nature, fermenting, drawing, learning various traditional handcrafts, and exploring how all these pieces fit together in our lives. Earlier this month I mentioned that my work is here to help writers come back to themselves: I see this as a way for us to learn who those selves really are.
Your turn: What’s your goal this year?
Your last chance for 60% off every writing support program I offer
Who do you want to be, as a writer, in 2025?
How do you want to feel about your work?
Self-care and self-love extend to planning ahead for your post-holiday self, too: Either through specific goals you set, or through building a structure around your writing practice that helps you stay in your pleasurable writing flow.
I’d be honored to support your writing vision in 2025, by helping you build a sustainable and consistent creative practice that you enjoy, whatever your craft may be.
60% off every class, plus a(nother) giveaway
Through December 31st, every Roots & Branches workshop, every self-study class, 1:1 program, and live workshop I offer is 60% off.
Just use the code HOLIDAY at checkout.
That includes Bloom: My 8 week program to build a lifelong, sustainable writing practice (and which is a steal given how much one-on-one support you get from me).
And it includes smaller self-study classes to help you find the joy in boundary setting, tap into and alchemize your unique creative rhythm, or weave pleasure into the everyday act of creating.
These classes are all opportunities to see how I work before you dive more deeply into larger, more intensive programs.
And it includes Hawthorn: A new private coaching program for experienced writers looking to fall back in love with their work: And which gives you more access to me than any other program I offer (I even mail you gifts!)
I’m only taking 1 more Hawthorn client for the first part of 2025, and my live programs (Bloom and Writing Playground) have enrollment caps: So if you’re planning on joining, join now before they sell out (and remember to use HOLIDAY, for 60% off).
More gifts for you
Two giveaways (end 12/31):
To thank you for supporting small business with your holiday gifting (or self-gifting) this year, I’m doing a holiday giveaway:
Everyone who buys any class or product, big or small, is automatically entered into a giveaway (worth $200) for either:
a free intuitive guidance session
or a free 1:1 writing support session (where we could, for example, map out your writing goals for the year, or identify exactly what a sustainable writing routine looks like for you).
OR: Free entry to any program through my newly-opened partner business, The Culinary Curiosity School.
I’m offering two of these giveaways: So you’ll be entered for one of two winning spots with any purchase.
I’ll email winners in early January!
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