A newsletter for curious, world-changing creatives ready to expand their creative ecosystems and make their dreams come true.
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Working with the elements to support your writing: Earth
Simple practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature Our current systems of working, whether on our creative projects or whatever else, separate is from the natural world, divorcing us from our own natural rhythms and from our knowledge that we (like everything else in nature) move in cycles and are interconnected with…
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Setting Boundaries with Yourself
A Toolkit to Help you Stay your Course Sometimes doing the writing the world needs means setting boundaries with yourself: Not just setting boundaries with others. It’s easy to spread ourselves too thin by spreading our attention and commitments, say ‘yes’ to more than feels doable, or hit ‘refresh’ on news and social sites in…
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On imagining new worlds
Our work in this moment is not to despair, but to imagine and to do I am an eternal optimist, but I also see, and experience, how quickly and dangerously the landscape is changing for myself and my loved ones, as the ground beneath us and our ability to thrive (or exist) continues to shift.…
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Focusing attention
Two simple practices to support your writing this year Last week I talked a bit about how doing energy work has helped me find focus as a writer. This week, I have a few simple practices to share that can help you: Even if you aren’t trained in energy work, you can still do simple…
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Tapping into your creative roots
A guided meditation for deepening into the core of your creative practice The day after my cookbook photo shoot wrapped up, I felt energized: The photo shoot tapped into something in the core of my work that made me feel really alive and excited. Over the course of a week, I saw my work reaching…
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Despairing about the state of the world may feel rational, but these are irrational times Everyone I’ve been talking to lately is moving through a sort of oscillation, wavering between intense hopelessness and sadness (personally or collectively) and a deep, unflappable knowing that everything is going to be ok. It’s a jarring feeling, particularly if…
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History requires us to be active participants in its creation. We aren’t just passive consumers of history, but active creators. Our daily decisions, our habits, from what we eat to who we engage with to our sleep patterns, clothing, and job schedules all become patterns that connect to the ways we define a given age.…
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We are living in a liminal moment. For the last few months, maybe a bit longer, everyone I’ve spoken to has seemed almost at the threshold of something. Some element, or maybe even most elements, of their life as it was have crumbled away, and while in most cases we recognize this crumbling as an…
Roots and Branches 