Hello, Monday Monday friends!
Thanks for clicking through. I’m Mary, a creative-anxiety-prone writer sharing solidarity for the journey out of the panic spiral (and back onto the labyrinth path of discovery).
Each month, the Inspirited Word podcast explores ways to breathe life, spirit, and magic into your creative practice – exactly as it is right now, imperfections included. Inside this audio space, it’s officially okay to feel both anxious and enlivened, both disenchanted and visionary, both ambitious and self-nurturing.
Here are a few curated episodes.
Latest on the pod 🎧
In the face of everything that’s happening, it’s easy to substitute worry and political strategy for what you actually, deeply desire in the world. Basically, you can loose touch with your longing.
And for storytellers, the most immediate and vital way to reconnect with hope is to live creatively – to let our creative sensibility feed and shape the way we interact with others daily, and the actions we take.
This episode explores a model of writing (from the mind of Ursula Le Guin) that’s been nurturing my longing in the weeks post-election.
Popular episodes 🔥
We’re all way too familiar with the trope that emotional suffering or “madness” is the most powerful source of creativity. But we get to choose the lineages of our work. So if you don’t want to be the tortured poet… you don’t have to be.
Tune in to discover what the lineage of the inspired poet can offer you instead.
How keeping a magical mindset can help even Very Serious Writers do deep and liberating creative work.
In this episode, I get honest about “failing” the classic writing life advice – and share four key threads of much better advice I’m following instead.
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