I was initially drawn to your books from a podcast I was sent by a friend about your experience straddling two worlds within life and religion. As someone who holds both colonized and colonizer blood in my own body, I am hungry for elders who are exploring that liminal space. Then I read your first book, then the second and was drawn to an ongoing connection with you. Just wanting to hear your stories and experiences as a way to validate my own existence and undo an aloneness that feels hard to relate in most spaces. You explore possibility and challenge with "is" with firm softness, a compassionate clarity that feels important and needed for my own sensitive nervous system.
Hello! Living Resistance brought me deeper into your work and outlook. (It also brought me to Writing the Wild!) I have emmense admiration for the way you seek to continue to be a full human in all your work. Your willingness to share that process/struggle/joy has created a safe space for many of us, that is why I'm a part of your substack community specifically. I just want to soak up all your wisdom and questions as I too try to make living a creative life a healthy reality. ❤️
I resonated with so much of what you shared here! As a published author and speaker who is seeking rhythms for a sustainable writing life, I loved hearing how you process these seasons. I took my first sabbatical last July and shut off obligations to meetings, deadlines, and social media. It was a process to prepare for that, but truly good for my soul. I plan to make it an annual rhythm. We need to fill the well so we can write!
I’m here because you’ve drawn me in with your real: this space needs to have more conversations about alternatives to what authors are “expected” to do. We have agency to shift the narrative. Thank you.
Again, thank you for giving voice to these matters. Much appreciated! (And thanks for taking time to support me on my writing journey by reading/endorsing my book!)
Hi Kaitlin, Living Resistance brings me here and the echoes between organised religion and academia that bring to life so much of my academic experience. As an former academic journal editor, peer reviewer and author I’m thinking about how publishing might be otherwise when our stories come from a different part of ourselves than the bit with the PhD (although I have never attempted to separate the two - the system does that for you). 😊
I was initially drawn to your books from a podcast I was sent by a friend about your experience straddling two worlds within life and religion. As someone who holds both colonized and colonizer blood in my own body, I am hungry for elders who are exploring that liminal space. Then I read your first book, then the second and was drawn to an ongoing connection with you. Just wanting to hear your stories and experiences as a way to validate my own existence and undo an aloneness that feels hard to relate in most spaces. You explore possibility and challenge with "is" with firm softness, a compassionate clarity that feels important and needed for my own sensitive nervous system.
Hello! Living Resistance brought me deeper into your work and outlook. (It also brought me to Writing the Wild!) I have emmense admiration for the way you seek to continue to be a full human in all your work. Your willingness to share that process/struggle/joy has created a safe space for many of us, that is why I'm a part of your substack community specifically. I just want to soak up all your wisdom and questions as I too try to make living a creative life a healthy reality. ❤️
I resonated with so much of what you shared here! As a published author and speaker who is seeking rhythms for a sustainable writing life, I loved hearing how you process these seasons. I took my first sabbatical last July and shut off obligations to meetings, deadlines, and social media. It was a process to prepare for that, but truly good for my soul. I plan to make it an annual rhythm. We need to fill the well so we can write!
I’m here because you’ve drawn me in with your real: this space needs to have more conversations about alternatives to what authors are “expected” to do. We have agency to shift the narrative. Thank you.
Again, thank you for giving voice to these matters. Much appreciated! (And thanks for taking time to support me on my writing journey by reading/endorsing my book!)
Hi Kaitlin, Living Resistance brings me here and the echoes between organised religion and academia that bring to life so much of my academic experience. As an former academic journal editor, peer reviewer and author I’m thinking about how publishing might be otherwise when our stories come from a different part of ourselves than the bit with the PhD (although I have never attempted to separate the two - the system does that for you). 😊
This is so good and applicable to creatives and artists of multiple disciplines.