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ABANDONING MYSELF AND CALLING IT SURRENDER
on shifting spirituality & using spiritual practices to hide from ourselves
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writings on being stretched wide by beauty, grief, and the full spectrum of aliveness
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Connecting to your body when it can feel like "a strange or unkind place" with dysphoria, chronic pain, and trauma
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TRANSFORMATIONAL PAIN & THE PAIN THAT KEEPS US STUCK
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Social media only ever gave me the promise of being happy, not actual happiness
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THE NEXT THING LEADS TO THE NEXT THING
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PLAY & NOURISHING THE CREATIVE SELF
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEING ALIVE
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Social media only ever gave me the promise of being happy, not actual happiness
I know there is nothing more boring than someone talking about how they quit social media! And yet! It turns out! All those people are actually onto…
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UNEARTHING THE DEEPER STORY
writing into more of what's true
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MY TIPS FOR FINISHING YOUR CREATIVE PROJECTS
How do you finish your creative projects?
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TAROT CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR CREATIVITY
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I’LL NEVER WRITE ANYTHING AS GOOD AS MELISSA FEBOS AND THAT’S OKAY
on comparison & creative process
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SHIFTING SPIRITUAL PRACTICES: A THREAD
Hi everyone, I wrote a bit about my shifting spiritual practices and how I’ve used spiritual practices to hide from myself back in the fall (you…
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dispatches from a creative, queer life. writing about being stretched wide by beauty, grief, and the full spectrum of aliveness.
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