For the depleted: An offering to refill your well.

Technically, it’s an oracle card workshop. Spiritually, it's a low-effort soul reboot.

Dec 06, 2024

I’m hearing about so many amazing workshops lately— some for planning your 2025 content calendar, some for honing your writer’s voice, some for developing your craft…

But there’s another refrain I’m hearing amidst the excitement for new beginnings. It sounds something like, I cannot possibly do one more ever-loving thing. My well is 10,000% dry. I don’t even know where to start. My creative spark/impulses/interests left out the back door and are nowhere to be found. Dear god, can I just nap forever?????

For you, depleted ones, I have profound empathy.

Not only have I “been there” in the abstract sense, but I’m pretty sure I’ve said all of those things at some point within the last, like, week and a half?

There are times when I am so excited to map out my Best Year Ever™️ full of major projects and business plans, when I whip out the big ass wall calendar and marker it up with all the visions for my grand productivity. And then there are times when I am so empty it’s as though I can hear a thin, eternal wail rising from far down inside the bone-dry well at the center of my being and barely register that it’s the sound of my own voice...

This, I find, is not the time for being rigorous and academic. Any attempts at strong-arming myself into Big Productivity in this depleted state will invariably result in despondent weeping, gnashing of teeth, etc. And if I go in un-resourced, my end product just never feels like me.

The only antidote to this depletion that has ever reconnected me with the truly important shit— like hope for the future and an expansive sense of purpose and generosity of spirit— is this: showing up to creativity’s door with my arms completely empty.

*We just need to slip off our shoes and step into the infinitely refreshing river of creative space...*

Mark my words! You don’t have to know how to make art or how to be a writer or how to have a creative practice–you just have to show up.

I know this to be true. Both from my own life experience, and from running many workshops, classes, death cafes, and seeing people who are truly struggling come alive again by just stepping in and saying yes.

January’s Ritual Lab is an example of showing up to creativity’s door with nothing but a pen, paper, and headphones. And everything else you’re bringing with you right now: a broken heart, apathy, hopelessness, fear…

Technically? It’s an oracle card workshop.

Spiritually? It’s an “I’m helping myself not be miserable” workshop.

(With a little help from deep play, and the power of symbols and story.)

This is the work underneath the work. This is the ground floor; before you plan your content calendar or hone your craft or anything else.

This is a workshop for stoking your own voice and rekindling your burning hot embers of vision. For moving away from synthetic presentation, mass-produced templates and TikTok trends. This is a workshop for sharpening your intuition. It’s for taking your creative power back.

Here are a bunch of the oracle cards in my ever-growing deck.

Step into the river with me in this January’s Ritual Lab Workshop, where we’ll be making and playing with our own oracle card decks, refilling our tanks, and changing the course of our year from the ground up.

You don’t need to have a creative practice, to be an artist, or to have literally ever done anything considered creative or artistic (or oracular!) in your life. I promise.

You just have to show up.

JOIN THE RITUAL LAB!

📆 We kick off our three-week Ritual Lab LIVE together on Sunday the 12th of January! Then: each week you’ll get prompts, meditations, quests and opportunities to cross-pollinate with your fellow adventurers delivered to your inbox. We’ll circle up again to share and close the ritual circle on Sunday, February 2nd.

Financial Assistance!