Roots and Branches

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Roots + Branches

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  • Your inner creator wants to be decisive

    Caring for yourself, first, turns your fulfilling creative future into your fulfilling creative present Paid subscribers: Read to the bottom to get your free pass to access Radical Creators plus 50% off everything else (everyone else, sign up here, or become a paid subscriber if you like occasional free classes!) Last week, I wrote about…

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  • Stepping into your radical creator energy

    Becoming the kind of creative you dream of being is a spell rooted in intention and action This is a time of year when the world feels expansive, and where I feel a sense of possibility. Yes, even now. And, especially now, regularly attuning to that feeling of possibility, whether in my creative work or…

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

    Simple practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature Water is connected with our deep depths and our biggest emotions: Like air, it’s constantly moving and shifting, and asks us to connect into its energy as it exists in a given moment, rather than assuming it will stay the same over time. Working…

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  • You're already the writer you dream of being

    How I handle big meetings with editors (or anyone else), rooted in practicality and possibility During a recent meeting, one of my clients asked how to prepare for navigating new-to-them writing spaces that feel scary: Think pitch meetings with presses they’re courting to publish your next book, meeting with a possible agent, presenting to a…

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  • On Practice

    The Liberatory Pleasure of Consistency

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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…

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