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 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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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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I spent years unweaving this one particular puzzle: I love manifestation, and believe there’s power in releasing control over a specific outcome. I believe there’s a universe, and various energies flowing through that universe, that shape and inform our lives and who we can collaborate with to build things beyond our wildest imaginings. But I…
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I’ve been playing around with something new after some requests for ongoing Reiki/energy work services. Monthly remote energy work + intuitive guidance sessions for creative people who are building a body of work (your art, your business, or something else). No appointment needed, no calendar wrangling required. It’s for busy creative people who want additional…
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We’re all storytellers. In the ways you think, but also in ways you may not realize. As a creative, you’re already familiar with the ways you shape ideas into being, using whatever medium crafted into whatever form, whether it’s a book, a business, a sculpture, or a song. But there’s another layer of storytelling beneath…
Roots and Branches 