Roots and Branches

the theory and practice of living a creative life.

Roots + Branches

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  • On Focus

    It’s not just about staying focused on the act of writing: It’s about focusing your energy, too I’ve been practicing reiki on myself each morning for the past month or so, as part of my reiki level I training. I feel better physically and emotionally when I do energy work, which I expected, but the…

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  • My ideal reader meets my ideal work

    On finding what you most want to say, and who you want it to reach There are just two more spots left in Bloom, my 8 week writing support program to build a sustainable lifelong writing practice: And doors close soon (we start on January 24). If you’ve been waiting to join, this is your…

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  • What writer will you be in 2025?

    This is the year we claim our dreams + your last chance for 60% off It’s your last call to take 60% off all my self-study and group programs, plus intuitive guidance sessions, before the year ends: Use HOLIDAY for 60% off before 12/31. I love a good list, and late December is full of…

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  • Taking the scary edge off sending work to publishers

    Plus the last chance to join Bloom with early pricing In my last meeting of the year with a private client, we talked about how she LOVES to write: But the part where she sends the work off to publishers? Terrifying. We focused a bit on why (and we all have a ‘why’ that makes…

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  • Free class just for newsletter subscribers

    Creating a container for your creative work, plus a $1 class on boundary setting I hinted around on social media that this class was coming, and here it is, just for you: Creating a Container for your Book (or other creative project) offers the first few steps in building a sustainable writing practice. It’s a…

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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…

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