1. I can offer 3 people free spots in the Heartbeats Community Bulletin Board throughout September to promote your work or offerings. Fill out this link for more info (ignore the paid sub part, happy to offer this without upgrading your subscription). šhttps://forms.gle/9RvsEos5CrEM1ZJR6
2. I can offer one mama support/affirmation around harmonizing caregiving/creativity roles and holding space for both in a way that honors YOU.
3. I'd be happy to gift one person the summer edition of the Rhythms and Rituals journal! (Still good through September).
RESOURCES NEEDED:
1. Help sharing the Connect, Create, Collaborate thread. The more folks we can have participate, the wider our safety net of resources can reach!
2. Opportunities to share my debut novel, The Pattern Shop (out this Nov/Dec!), a story about generational healing, adventure, and belonging to a world full of fragile hope on podcasts, guest posts, or live events.
3. I'd love some feedback on how Heartbeats can be of service, or how this community is already impacting you. What need is it solving? Or how could it solve it better? As we grow, I want to get clearer on how Heartbeats can be a place of authentic, genuine connection and inspiration. š
- Anything anyone can do to spread the word about that Creative Health Blueprint (see ^) or my 1:1 Creativity Calls would be amazing (share, interview me, let me guest post ... you're welcome to cross-post anything from my Substack.)
- It's also been a little bit since I got new recommendations here on Substack so anyone who is moved to start recommending Create Me Free is appreciated. <3 <3
My September and October are focused on that and on a couple of small but very exciting vacations (including a quick trip with my bestie to celebrate 30 years of friendship) so that's all for right now. <3 <3
Yes yes and yes! I would love to interview you and/or let you guest post to my audience. Send me a message and let's start to think what will work best!
I am also 100% for more recommendations. They have worked wonders for me on Substack and I would be happy to read through your work and write a good recommendation. Give me a week or so to get to that!
Hi Kathryn, I'd love to receive one of your Creative Health Blueprints, if a spot is still available!
I'd also love to help promote your offerings in the Heartbeats Community Bulletin. I can add a description to the end of each newsletter throughout the month of September to see if you get any extra traction!
Here's the link to fill out what you'd like to mention/offer (ignore the paid sub part, I'm happy to offer this to you for free!) https://forms.gle/9RvsEos5CrEM1ZJR6
Absolutely relate to the challenge of forming/finding community. Especially living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a place a lot of people don't stay for long, so a lot of people I found have left.
What worked for me was a weird combination of regularly putting in the effort and also letting go of attachment to the outcome. Ultimately I pieced together what is community for me. It's not the one large community I might have once envisioned (the sixties commune, minus all the reasons they didn't work) but instead is a mash-mash of people who I know from different places and times, some relatively recent and others going back 30 years, a few that I "only" know online, and many of them have met one another here and there but I'm the common denominator. They're my community because they show up for me in the good and the bad, the big and the small, and I do the same.
It's worth it, as you said, and it's hard. I will say that for me it got significantly easier in my forties. Maybe because enough time had passed with some people that I had my core group. Maybe because I know myself better. Not sure. <3 <3 <3
Thank you for your thoughtful words, Kathryn. And the saga continues! There has been yet more dynamics with my neighbours. It is hard to fall asleep these last few nights, feeling unworthiness wash over me. I am working hard to remind myself of the opportunity presented to us to find other connections. Every day is a new day to do something wonderful. I do feel, as I get older, that I am more upfront and straightforward with people and skip the frivolity of stepping on eggshells. I think age allows us to cut through the shit more!
We moved into our current home 3 years ago & have very similar issues with our neighbors. I loved (& got along very well with) our neighbors in prior neighborhoods but things are tough over here. To the point where I often feel awkward or stressed if we happen to be outside at the same time as them.
I think you did the right thing for your son & the neighbor who called was absolutely overstepping boundaries. I am so sorry you're dealing with this. I would also struggle to fall asleep!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Kaitlin. Itās easy to feel alone and isolated when these things happen, yet they are common enough that others can sympathize and have empathy for us.
Yes, I remember the days of stepping on eggshells around other neighbours. Sometimes you just have to say fā it and continue life as if they werenāt there. My heart goes out to you as you continue to navigate your own story.
Hi! I'm Mariah, currently in CHATTANOOGA, TN
RESOURCES OFFERED:
1. I can offer 3 people free spots in the Heartbeats Community Bulletin Board throughout September to promote your work or offerings. Fill out this link for more info (ignore the paid sub part, happy to offer this without upgrading your subscription). šhttps://forms.gle/9RvsEos5CrEM1ZJR6
2. I can offer one mama support/affirmation around harmonizing caregiving/creativity roles and holding space for both in a way that honors YOU.
3. I'd be happy to gift one person the summer edition of the Rhythms and Rituals journal! (Still good through September).
RESOURCES NEEDED:
1. Help sharing the Connect, Create, Collaborate thread. The more folks we can have participate, the wider our safety net of resources can reach!
2. Opportunities to share my debut novel, The Pattern Shop (out this Nov/Dec!), a story about generational healing, adventure, and belonging to a world full of fragile hope on podcasts, guest posts, or live events.
3. I'd love some feedback on how Heartbeats can be of service, or how this community is already impacting you. What need is it solving? Or how could it solve it better? As we grow, I want to get clearer on how Heartbeats can be a place of authentic, genuine connection and inspiration. š
Hi, Iām Amanda! Iām in PORT MOODY, BC, CANADA
RESOURCES OFFERED
1. Prenatal or postpartum support for one mama.
2. Motherblessing planning for any pregnant mama's (this is in place of a baby shower).
RESOURCES NEEDED
1. Substack recommendations. If you like what you read, please recommend me!
2. Substack collaboration for guest posts, lives, podcast episodes, interviews, co-authored articles, etc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
RESOURCES OFFERED:
- I can offer two more writers a free Creative Health Blueprint assessment this month: https://createmefree.substack.com/p/new-the-art-meets-health-creative
RESOURCES NEEDED:
- Anything anyone can do to spread the word about that Creative Health Blueprint (see ^) or my 1:1 Creativity Calls would be amazing (share, interview me, let me guest post ... you're welcome to cross-post anything from my Substack.)
- It's also been a little bit since I got new recommendations here on Substack so anyone who is moved to start recommending Create Me Free is appreciated. <3 <3
My September and October are focused on that and on a couple of small but very exciting vacations (including a quick trip with my bestie to celebrate 30 years of friendship) so that's all for right now. <3 <3
Yes yes and yes! I would love to interview you and/or let you guest post to my audience. Send me a message and let's start to think what will work best!
I am also 100% for more recommendations. They have worked wonders for me on Substack and I would be happy to read through your work and write a good recommendation. Give me a week or so to get to that!
Hi Kathryn, I'd love to receive one of your Creative Health Blueprints, if a spot is still available!
I'd also love to help promote your offerings in the Heartbeats Community Bulletin. I can add a description to the end of each newsletter throughout the month of September to see if you get any extra traction!
Here's the link to fill out what you'd like to mention/offer (ignore the paid sub part, I'm happy to offer this to you for free!) https://forms.gle/9RvsEos5CrEM1ZJR6
Happy to do your blueprint! I'll have it to you in 7-10 days and will let you know if anything comes up between now and then.
Appreciate your offer, will check out the form asap. <3 <3
Absolutely relate to the challenge of forming/finding community. Especially living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a place a lot of people don't stay for long, so a lot of people I found have left.
What worked for me was a weird combination of regularly putting in the effort and also letting go of attachment to the outcome. Ultimately I pieced together what is community for me. It's not the one large community I might have once envisioned (the sixties commune, minus all the reasons they didn't work) but instead is a mash-mash of people who I know from different places and times, some relatively recent and others going back 30 years, a few that I "only" know online, and many of them have met one another here and there but I'm the common denominator. They're my community because they show up for me in the good and the bad, the big and the small, and I do the same.
It's worth it, as you said, and it's hard. I will say that for me it got significantly easier in my forties. Maybe because enough time had passed with some people that I had my core group. Maybe because I know myself better. Not sure. <3 <3 <3
Thank you for your thoughtful words, Kathryn. And the saga continues! There has been yet more dynamics with my neighbours. It is hard to fall asleep these last few nights, feeling unworthiness wash over me. I am working hard to remind myself of the opportunity presented to us to find other connections. Every day is a new day to do something wonderful. I do feel, as I get older, that I am more upfront and straightforward with people and skip the frivolity of stepping on eggshells. I think age allows us to cut through the shit more!
We moved into our current home 3 years ago & have very similar issues with our neighbors. I loved (& got along very well with) our neighbors in prior neighborhoods but things are tough over here. To the point where I often feel awkward or stressed if we happen to be outside at the same time as them.
I think you did the right thing for your son & the neighbor who called was absolutely overstepping boundaries. I am so sorry you're dealing with this. I would also struggle to fall asleep!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Kaitlin. Itās easy to feel alone and isolated when these things happen, yet they are common enough that others can sympathize and have empathy for us.
Yes, I remember the days of stepping on eggshells around other neighbours. Sometimes you just have to say fā it and continue life as if they werenāt there. My heart goes out to you as you continue to navigate your own story.