A newsletter for curious, world-changing creatives ready to expand their creative ecosystems and make their dreams come true.
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Here’s $20 for you (or to share with a friend)
Hi friend, If you’ve been thinking about getting or gifting classes, coaching, or other experiences for yourself or favorite creative-minded friend this holiday season, here’s $20 to make that a bit more accessible. Just use the code ‘2025’ for $20 off anything on my Roots + Branches website. Yes, you can combine it with other…
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What are your deepest desires?
Last night, I had a sudden burst of inspiration that literally pulled me out of my chair. I was sitting around watching my cozy mystery shows (a regular favorite evening activity) when suddenly I was hit with a burst of inspiration. You know when you feel pulled to do something and you don’t know why,…
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Letting the mind step aside: Creativity is a whole body, whole spirit practice
I love when synchronicity happens, and I love how often it happens in my world. Yesterday, I finished my Reiki III training and now embark on the lifelong path of deciding what being a bearer, and teacher, of that lineage means for me. And a lot of it had to do with sharing wisdom beyond…
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Somatic practices to support your creative spirit and open heart
Self-care for wild times What are somatic practices? To do somatic work simply means to work with the body, in this case, collaborating with our bodies to find grounding, calm, or other desired states of being, while also listening to our bodies’ wisdom and intuition to guide us in our practices. In other contexts, you…
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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…
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