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Embracing messy humanity is the answer
Your creative spark and critical thinking are precious and worth protecting, especially now I opened up enrollment for my next round of Bloom this week (more below if you’re interested) and it gave me a chance to make updates to the agreements I ask everyone to acknowledge in my group spaces. Many of these agreements…
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Imposter syndrome has layers
Your work actually DOES matter, a lot, right now I’ve been thinking a lot about imposter syndrome. But not because I’m trying to ‘fix’ it, but more because I’m letting myself get curious about what’s behind a nearly universal human experience. Imposter syndrome is a relatively recent classification (first appearing in 1978), but it’s something…
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Trapped in a plane with nothing but your thoughts
Sometimes boredom asks us to turn our brains back on when the rest of the world turns off There’s a lot of magic to be found in your phone notes. In my case, I found this essay, from a recent flight from Ireland to the US, which was one of the most boring flights of…
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The world can't thrive on your hopelessness
The saying “worry is using your imagination to create things you don’t want” feels trite, but there’s some truth to it Reorienting your focus is a boon to creativity I firmly do not believe that you need to be a suffering artist in order to create good art. And I see the ways that worry,…
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Upcoming workshops
Playful food writing, plus a 7 day program to give your creativity a boost I love this time of year for many reasons, but one of the biggest is the shift in energy I feel in working with other creatives. In the past, many of my clients worked in academia, and so this season coincided…
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Hello friends! As some of you know, next month Symbiosis starts: it’s 9 months of creative expansion, grounding, energy work and intuition. It’s like a coaching program, MFA, artist’s residency, energy work space, science lab, and mystery school all rolled into one. Each month, we engage in expansion activities, grounding, practical nuts-and-bolts creative coaching, and…
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It’s wild out there. For those of you know who me personally or have followed my work closely for a while, you know it’s wild in my own world too: A time of transition for myself, alongside pretty much everyone else on the planet, alongside all our systems and structures we’re used to (for better…
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Digital collage, Julia Skinner, 2025 (scroll down for why I chose Mugwort) A decade or so ago, I used to write about things you learn in dreams. Inspired by Gary Burnett, one of my professors and dissertation committee members, who regularly wrote Facebook posts sharing the wild and wonderful lessons from his own dreamscape (and…
Roots and Branches 