A newsletter for curious, world-changing creatives ready to expand their creative ecosystems and make their dreams come true.
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Enter the Scary Door
The Pop Culture Reference I use to Reduce Writing + Life Anxiety For many years, my writing and all my professional work (and everything else) were deeply intertwined with anxiety. Left unchecked, my anxiety knows no bounds: every project, relationship, ache and pain, and minor inconvenience has the potential to become a full blown disaster…
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Information literacy is critical: Readings and resources to help
Hi!A short newsletter this week highlighting a few announcements that I think you’d find helpful. First up: I published a guide for evaluating resources and sifting out misinformation in my food + history newsletter. This was a section I wrote in my next book, The Essential Preserving Handbook, but it felt important to share now:…
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Regenerative Creative Ecosystems
And the first steps to building yours In my circles, I work a lot with regenerative business ecosystems and implement regenerative ecosystem practices into my own work. I’ve even noticed some people talking about creative ecosystems: But the comparisons often feel surface-level and, honestly, I lose interest pretty quickly. I agree, it’s super useful to…
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You have great ideas
A journaling practice for reminding yourself of your creative genius Julia Albain, an absolutely incredible energy worker + human, and myself, are co-leading Creative Revolution: A somatic and creative incubator for writers, change-makers, and humans with heart. It’s a 4 week program beginning October 25th, which includes weekly live calls, a Slack space, and a…
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Finding your creative magic with intuitive writing
Some quick thoughts on how to cultivate your own practice You’ve probably heard the term “intuitive writing.” But what does it mean? Depending who you ask, intuitive writing can be a stand-in for freewriting or stream-of-consciousness writing, or it can be writing that’s guided by your intuition. The latter is how I use the term,…
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As a writer, I recognize the power of my words to move and inform readers around a given subject. Why, then, did it take me so many years to embrace the fact that when I write my intentions for the future, that this, too, is a source of power? Through writing my desires, I focus…
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Lately, in client work and in my own practice, I’ve been really emphasizing small daily actions done in tandem with larger, deeper work. Like a river cutting through a landscape (or one of those old Roman roads that’s several feet lower than the ground around it), those small actions gradually reshape things, until you eventually…
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Practices to meet and hold this moment Lately, I’ve been focusing on simple, practical actions. I love deep, extended dives into my own inner world and how I work, but sometimes you just need a quick, simple practice that you can try then move on with your day. in the Mycelia Writers’ Coven and in…
Roots and Branches 