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8 Questions Every Creative Should Ask Themselves at Least Once a Year

Holding space to define creative fulfillment on your own terms keeps you free as a creator

May 1

8 Questions Every Creative Should Ask Themselves at Least Once a Year

May 1

On the Spiritual Art of Letting People Be Wrong About You

Reclaiming your own narrative when the world keeps inventing a version of you that doesn’t exist

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On the Spiritual Art of Letting People Be Wrong About You

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On Keeping a Tiny God in a Jar

Lessons in not killing your ideas by loving them too loudly

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On Keeping a Tiny God in a Jar

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You Can’t Choose Your Way Out of Being Human

Why even the “right” choices will eventually make you cry in a Target parking lot

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You Can’t Choose Your Way Out of Being Human

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Mandy and the Art of Growing Older Without Becoming a Cult Leader

What an acid-washed revenge movie taught me about aging, ego, and building a world worth living in

Nov 6

Mandy and the Art of Growing Older Without Becoming a Cult Leader

Nov 6

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When Your Creative Worlds Start to Blend (and That’s Not a Bad Thing)

A survival guide for creators with more ideas than hours and more channels than sense

Nov 3

When Your Creative Worlds Start to Blend (and That’s Not a Bad Thing)

Nov 3

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The Great Stability Hoax

For everyone currently pretending to be fine while quietly Googling “how to move to the woods”

Oct 31

The Great Stability Hoax

Oct 31

Sympathetic Magic 101: What Weapons Gets Surprisingly Right

Folk magick mechanics hiding in plain sight behind Aunt Gladys’s blood ritual

Oct 30

Sympathetic Magic 101: What Weapons Gets Surprisingly Right

Oct 30

How to Be a Person (Even When You’d Really Rather Not)

Field notes on humanity from someone who keeps accidentally opting out

Oct 28

How to Be a Person (Even When You’d Really Rather Not)

Oct 28

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Why I’ll Never Be “Over It” (and Don’t Want to Be)

Because closure is for storage units, not people

Oct 28

Why I’ll Never Be “Over It” (and Don’t Want to Be)

Oct 28

Shannon Hilson

Shannon Hilson

Writer of essays, reflections, and cultural commentary. Exploring creativity, inner life, and what it means to grow wiser on purpose.

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