Roots and Branches

the theory and practice of living a creative life.

Roots + Branches

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  • Writing as breath work and movement

    Creating a sacred space for your words to exist within If you want to experience the power and pleasure of a consistent writing practice that fills you up and brings you joy, join me in Symbiosis: A 6-month program that will shape your creativity for the rest of your life. We orient ourselves towards expansion,…

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  • 21 days to a renewed creative practice

    If you’re ready for a big leap up, this is for you At one point last year, I was feeling really stalled out as a creative person: My projects were all going fine, and I had new ideas, but none of them were really getting me excited. I was going through the motions, like I…

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  • Working with the elements to support your writing practice: Fire

    Simple energizing, practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature and align you with your true creative self Fire is intimidating. Its suddenness, its unpredictability, its raw power. Growing up in wildfire country I’ve always had a healthy respect for this element, but today I also have come to see the wisdom in…

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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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  • 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…

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  • Animism and a new paradigm of creativity Behind the scenes in my own work, I’ve been exploring new realms of relating to creativity that are not fully ready to come to light in a public way (but you can get a taste below).  I’ve been weaving together various aspects of my own private creative practice…

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  • I talk a lot about the importance of starting your day with the work that matters to you. It doesn’t necessarily mean every day involves mapping out a new dream project, but just that you’re devoting some time to something that matters to you. Why do this? Some science shows that shows the more we…

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