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Julia Skinner, PhD

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Your creative ecosystems guide. Coach + intuitive, energy worker, author, PhD. Start + finish your dream projects + build a passionate creative life.

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I’m Julia, an award-winning author and creative pro, a PhD, a writing coach, and an educator with over a decade of experience.

I’ve been helping folks meet and work with their creativity for as long as I can remember, whether that’s in the kitchen, in the classroom, in the library (my last career was as a rare books librarian), and in the journals and word docs where new writing projects come to life.

While I largely work with writers, I help creatives from all backgrounds and in all media: Because the tools I teach apply to any creative practice.

I use my love of nature and my own intuition as guides, crafting programs to help you build your creative ecosystem, and to unleash your inner creative voice.

My programs are more than just skill-building workshops: You also learn in community, in a supportive space that honors your journey to build a creative practice that works for you.

Some other fun facts about me: I have won multiple awards for my writing on fermentation (I ferment food every day), I love to travel, I live between the US and Ireland, I have 5 cats, and I never learned how to ride a bicycle (I know, wild right?)

Welcome: I’m so glad you’re here! by @yourrootsandbranches

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Yesterday, I hosted an online guided meditation. About 40 people signed up. One person ended up attending.

A few years ago, the low turnout would have put me in a tailspin for days. Why did no one come? What did I do wrong? Why do I keep failing at things? Etc.

But now I see the space for what it was: when we facilitate anything, we’re creating a container with its own energy and dynamics. Some spaces want to be big and busy and full of people. But what works for one space doesn’t work for all of them.

That meditation ended up being PERFECT: the one person who came had been feeling isolated, and since we were doing a mycelial meditation (which are all about connection to our whole community, including the natural world), they were able to get a nice 1:1 meditation AND a tool to feel connected to their world when they felt alone in the future.

Think of how powerful that is: I made a container that met someone’s needs and genuinely helped them. Whether or not we work together again, the space I held had the potential to shape someone’s life.

This is why I always hold space for 1:1 clients as well as groups, and why my 1:1 containers are so unique to each person, because what I hold for you looks different from what I hold for anyone else.
I’ve got a few spots left for 1:1 this autumn, shaped for different levels of engagement and budgets. DM me to claim yours. by @yourrootsandbranches

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You deserve a writing practice as multifaceted and intelligent as the work you put into the world.

Come build a writing practice that will allow you to surprise and delight yourself, push yourself to be the writer you dream of being (doing the projects you dream of doing), and to grow in ways you never thought possible.

If you commit and go all in for four weeks, I promise you you will leave with a changed relationship to how writing feels and flows.

As always, every space I lead is 100% GenAI-free, and all are welcome, but my special focus is on women, NB, LGBTQ+, global majority, and neurodivergent creatives. by @yourrootsandbranches

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When you’re building a creative practice that will last a lifetime, you want to use the best materials. Here are just a few of the building blocks you’ll craft with me in Bloom this November! by @yourrootsandbranches

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When I first started leading online group programs, I would really ride the highs of large attendance and feel the ‘lows’ of low/no attendance. Until I remembered the space wasn’t just about me.
If I’m here to mentor and teach and lead, that means I’m making a container for all of us. And that container needs to hold our complete selves. Now, folks stay with me for years because I push them but I don’t make demands that ask them to move out of alignment.

Leadership doesn’t ask you to perform to be in my spaces, it asks me to step up and hold the kind of space we can all create in (and that includes folks resting or skipping sessions, knowing they’re always welcome back). by @yourrootsandbranches

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Pleasure as in “how deeply can I feel the magic this world is trying to offer me, through my creative work and beyond” not just pleasure as “I want to get off” (though, that too) by @yourrootsandbranches

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Bloom draws on all my various professional lives, including my previous career as a university professor, to give you the foundational building blocks for a practice that will change the world, which we put in place each week together in our meetings and on our Slack channel.

Come join me! This workshop is always a ton of fun and this year it will be better than ever by @yourrootsandbranches

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My next writing workshop, Bloom, helps you build a lifelong, sustainable, creative practice that makes dreams a reality and makes writing a joy again.

I hear almost weekly from folks who YEARS later are still are feeling the effects of the work we do together in this space, and I want that for you, too.

Use the code CREATE for 20% off early pricing, or comment below and I'll send you an extra special code for an even bigger discount! by @yourrootsandbranches

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I help people tap into their creative flow, center the pleasure of creativity in their lives, and build a body of work they’re proud of. Lately myself and my clients have been talking a lot about how this is at its core a decolonial practice: where we aren’t just tearing old work and social structures down, we’re being clear about what does in their place. by @yourrootsandbranches

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How is not just my work’s contents, but the *way I work*, making me a vessel of colonialism? I’m talking a lot about this in my private group spaces, but expect to see more thoughts here too. by @yourrootsandbranches

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