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"Just do something"
poet, essayist & teacher Catherine Pierce on "woods medicine," the power of specificity, and starting again & again ✨✨
Mar 26
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"Staying with the journey"
writer, editor & professor Namrata Poddar on the power of setting small goals, seeing life as a practice, and decolonizing mental health ✨
Mar 18
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"Do what feeds your soul”
poet and licensed plumber Bob Walicki on the power of stillness, being kind to yourself, and finding your poetry family ✨
Mar 4
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"Be an agent of change, not a victim of circumstance"
cultural anthropologist, writer, and Zen meditation practitioner Maia Duerr on her writing and mindfulness practices and how practice opens "a portal to…
Feb 26
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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Maia Duerr
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“hell yes or hell no?”
late poet, teacher, and seeker Bobbie Ogletree on her meditation and writing practices and poetry as a path to waking up 🌊
Feb 6
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"the devotion to return to a creative practice, again and again"
badass creativity facilitator Catherine LaSota on the power of limiting your assumptions, approaching your creative practice as a relationship, and…
Dec 3, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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Catherine LaSota
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"conscious but gentle collaboration with what is"
parent, educator, writer, and meditator Ryan Rose Weaver on how her mindfulness and creative practices help her advocate for care and reciprocity for…
Oct 29, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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Ryan Rose Weaver (she/hers)
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"I have time"
baker, poet, and biographer Margot Kahn on getting over self-consciousness to begin again (and again) and the power of reminding yourself that you do…
Oct 22, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"Inspiration and spiritual connection are seduced with attention"
writer, astrologer, and teacher Jeanna Kadlec on the power of getting out of the house, considering the astro-weather, and balancing your creative…
Oct 15, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"befriending my subconscious"
essayist, author, and environmental writer Christina Rivera on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the…
Oct 2, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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Christina Rivera (Author)
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"trust the work"
Poet, writer, and teacher Cassie Pruyn on the power of patience, casting a wide net for inspiration, and trusting the work ✨✨
Sep 25, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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"You are not lost. You are here.”
poet, critic, teacher, editor & visual artist Linda Michel-Cassidy on the power of swimming, courting surprise, and finding a writing group 🌊
Sep 3, 2025
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Emily Mohn-Slate
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