Roots and Branches

the theory and practice of living a creative life.

Roots + Branches

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  • Manifesting my creative life is so very different from the evangelical world I grew up in

    I spent years unweaving this one particular puzzle: I love manifestation, and believe there’s power in releasing control over a specific outcome. I believe there’s a universe, and various energies flowing through that universe, that shape and inform our lives and who we can collaborate with to build things beyond our wildest imaginings. But I…

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  • receive monthly energy + intuitive work to support your body of work, without appointments or reminders

    I’ve been playing around with something new after some requests for ongoing Reiki/energy work services.  Monthly remote energy work + intuitive guidance sessions for creative people who are building a body of work (your art, your business, or something else). No appointment needed, no calendar wrangling required. It’s for busy creative people who want additional…

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  • Is the story you’re telling the one you want to tell?

    We’re all storytellers. In the ways you think, but also in ways you may not realize. As a creative, you’re already familiar with the ways you shape ideas into being, using whatever medium crafted into whatever form, whether it’s a book, a business, a sculpture, or a song.  But there’s another layer of storytelling beneath…

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  • When you write your desires, you write your reality. 

    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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  • Building capacity: Simple practices

    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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