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When creativity makes you want to shut down: the science of avoiding big feelings (and some ways to help)
Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of creative practitioners from a whole range of crafts and backgrounds. And one of the most common things I see across all that variety is that people deeply love their creative work, and become deeply frustrated because they keep avoiding it. Why would we avoid something we enjoy? Why…
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Being creatively resourced is like building up your food reserves for the future
We show up more fully when we’re able to take care of ourselves I talk a lot about food security in my work as a writer and educator, and talk about food security and sustainability as a form of wealth in my class Preserving Abundance. Essentially, it’s an invitation to think of ‘wealth’ expansively, as…
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Hello friends! As some of you know, next month Symbiosis starts: it’s 9 months of creative expansion, grounding, energy work and intuition. It’s like a coaching program, MFA, artist’s residency, energy work space, science lab, and mystery school all rolled into one. Each month, we engage in expansion activities, grounding, practical nuts-and-bolts creative coaching, and…
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It’s wild out there. For those of you know who me personally or have followed my work closely for a while, you know it’s wild in my own world too: A time of transition for myself, alongside pretty much everyone else on the planet, alongside all our systems and structures we’re used to (for better…
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Digital collage, Julia Skinner, 2025 (scroll down for why I chose Mugwort) A decade or so ago, I used to write about things you learn in dreams. Inspired by Gary Burnett, one of my professors and dissertation committee members, who regularly wrote Facebook posts sharing the wild and wonderful lessons from his own dreamscape (and…
Roots and Branches 