ODETTE LOVE LETTER

By Odette Press

a weekly written dispatch by kelly odette laughlin of odette press | thoughtful prompts and practices in presence... more

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The podcast currently has 257 episodes available.

ODETTE LOVE LETTER episodes:

July 11, 202311 JULY: CREATIVELY NOURISHED
In today's letter, we're diving into the name of the Odette Press newsletter: Creative Nourishment.

Mentioned in today's letter:
Creative Vessels, an online experience happening on July 26

The Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Prompts and practices for tuning into food and creative experience, ways of savoring your life

Some of the origins of Odette Press and our journals -- More on those here.

Sign up for the newsletter over on Substack or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
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9min
July 04, 20234 JULY: PRACTICES OF CARE
What does caring for you and your creativity look, feel, sound, or taste like? In today's letter, we're exploring practices of care, with a summertime reflection from a favorite river.
Mentioned in today's letter:
Map journals — my go-tos for everyday writing (standard, here) and great sturdy well made travel companions

Seasonal Session to support your practice this summer, or Field Guides to deepen your creative connections to the nature of life

Creative Vessels, a new class on caring for your creative practice
Odette Press (www.odettepress.us) is a creative studio and collection of journals and cards by artist/writer Kelly Laughlin. Read more on my creative teaching practice and work here, and subscribe over on Substack for the full weekly newsletter experience.
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12min
June 27, 202327 JUNE: ACTIVATING AWE
We need wonder. Wonder draws us out of our habituated tendencies into the space of what we’re curious about. Awe shows us something to savor, fully, and be with. In today's letter, we're exploring awe and wonder.

Mentioned in today's letter:
⁠Values and Visions: Journaling for Intention⁠ for more on identifying what you love, value, and care about on the writing page or ⁠Inspiration and Ideation: Generative Journaling⁠ for practices I turn to for sparking ideas.

The very first ⁠Seasonal Session⁠, an hour-long guided creative session centered around writing in rhythm with the seasonal shift
Equip your inner journey and travels throughout the world with notebooks and cards made in nature: ⁠www.odettepress.us
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12min
June 20, 202320 JUNE: EXPLORING TOGETHER
Exploring together and alone, interdependently, what can we learn? When we soften into the unknown of our inner experiences, what loving care can emerge? When we gather together in strength, what gets revealed? These are some of the questions from today's letter for the season ahead.

Mentioned in today's letter:
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell

The very first seasonal class, 6/21 from 8-9PME EST available for paid subscribers over on Substack
Read the full letter over at odettepress.substack.com and shop journals for your creative practice at www.odettepress.us
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16min
June 13, 202313 JUNE: A CONVERSATION WITH CURIOSITY
What are you curious about? What’s your creativity asking for? In this week's love letter, we're getting into creative flow, curiosity, and upcoming classes.
Mentioned in today's letter:
Intentions, values, and visions

Upcoming classes, like suminagashi and bookbinding

For the full experience, subscribe for free, or become a paid member over at odettepress.substack.com
Forward this to your curiously-minded, creative friends.
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10min
June 07, 2023 6 JUNE: WONDERING WITHIN
We're diving into curiosity today -- what does it mean, what does it feel like? How do we experience and express it?
If you're curious about journaling, explore prompts and practices in person this Sunday in Brooklyn. Sign up for Build Your Journaling Practice or check out my collection of writing class recordings for you to explore on your own time.
As always, shop journals and cards over at www.odettepress.us share this with a friend who might like it, too, and subscribe on Substack for the full experience.
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11min
May 31, 2023 30 MAY: INNER WORLDS
Today's letter is on grounding down into interior life, and then using creative reflection as an inspiration point for being in the world.
Mentioned in today's letter:
Pema Chodron
David Whyte on On Being
My class recording library for discovering and deepening your journaling practice
Shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and subscribe on Substack for the full experience at odettepress.substack.com
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13min
May 23, 2023 23 MAY: PARTS OF SPEECH GROUNDING INTO VOICE
Today's letter is a meditation on embodying your voice. Where do you sense what it is you're trying to say? Equip your practice with journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and sign up for the full letter over at odettepress.substack.com
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9min
May 16, 202316 MAY: WALKING AND WRITING
On writing and walking and the practices therein.

Mentioned in today's newsletter:
Walking and Writing: Artists as Cartographers by Karen O'Rourke

Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell
For more books, visit the Odette Press bookshop (here) Read more and subscribe here. Shop Odette Press here, and follow along on Instagram - tag your reflections.
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22min
May 09, 2023 9 MAY: COLOR STORY
On the nature of grounding in colors.
This week's letter is a riff on colors, and a note to say that the Heirloom Journals are back in stock, and you can find them here. Subscribe for more over at odettepress.substack.com and tag your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress. What's a color that's inspiring you this week?
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8min

FAQs about ODETTE LOVE LETTER:

How many episodes does ODETTE LOVE LETTER have?

The podcast currently has 257 episodes available.