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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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Gifts for paid subscribers
I’m so excited to welcome you to my own little corner of the internet. I share lots of goodies for paid and free subscribers: But paid subscribers get big discounts, free stuff, and extra access to me and my schedule (among other goodies on occasion), as a thank you for supporting my work. Here’s everything…
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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 