Roots and Branches

the theory and practice of living a creative life.

Roots + Branches

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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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  • we can feel grounded in turbulent times 

    It’s easy to feel spread thin, and besides evergreen advice like limiting social media time (more on that below), creative spirits need advice specific to us. Specific to continuing the work that’s so vital at a time when it feels impossible to do so. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but a few ideas for things…

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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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  • Building capacity

    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…

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