For the Birds: December nourishment

Dear paid readers: I want to send you mail! Plus: BIRDSEED, not one but *two* Resiliency Circles, a co-hosting invitation, a new blog, and a (free) offer.

Thanks for being here! I’m on a mission to serve others through writing & mentorship, and I’m doing this work as a self-employed, neurodivergent human. Your support has a bigger impact on my life than you likely know. Please know it! When you can, thank you for reading closely, sharing widely, and upgrading to a paid subscription.

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Dear Readers,

I come bearing many fun + collaborative things to share with you this month!

Let’s dive right in…

1) BIRDSEED

~a monthly playlist, curated by M: my beloved soup collaborator~

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2) A subscription invitation & (free!) offer

If you’ve been considering becoming a paid reader, attending The Resiliency Circle, or diving into the prompts & tools I create each month; OR if creative mentorship has been calling your name, then I have a really lovely offer for you:

Between now and Friday the 13th of December, upgrade your For the Birds subscription to the Founding Member level* and get a free End-of-year Review Session with me!

This bundle includes:

• Full access to The Resiliency Circle in 2025

• All paid reader prompts, tools, & worksheets

• One 75-minute End-of-year Review Session

*Upgrade must be at or above the current suggested “Founding Member” rate. No code needed—just upgrade & you’ll hear from me :)

End-of-year Review Sessions can be scheduled anytime between now and the end of January. You can peek at my schedule here.

Set yourself up for creative accountability & nourishment all throughout 2025 <3

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3) The December Resiliency Circles

Calling all friends, readers, & peers in India, Sweden, Australia, or any other place in the world where timing has made it hard to attend The Resiliency Circle:

This month, I’m hosting two gatherings!

We’ll meet first at our usual time of 5:15pm Pacific, on Tuesday, December 17th.

Then, on Friday the 20th, I’ll be hosting a second parallel writing session, at 9:30am Pacific.

Come to one, or both! I would love nothing more than to write alongside you twice in the same week.

I’ll open each hour with brief encouragement, and I’m *thrilled* to start utilizing the exercises from

Emily Stoddard

’s new book, surfacing: closing practices for creative writers, as a way to close out these gatherings.

Your ongoing attendance, RSVPs, and feedback help me understand when and how these Circles are most valuable to you—thank you for all three! Keep ‘em coming.

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4) Oh, by the way…wanna co-host a Resiliency Circle with me?

Dear readers: So many of you are such *brilliant* and curious creative humans!

And in 2025, I’d like to co-host some of my monthly gatherings with you.

The Resiliency Circle is an intimate, once-a-month virtual space I host for paid readers of For the Birds. Sometimes we body double. Sometimes I facilitate gently guided writing / thinking / making. Sometimes we chat about our impulses or challenges. Sometimes we explore creativity through a seasonal lens.

No matter the shape and scope, these gatherings are generative, strengths-based, and held in the spirit of accommodating our full, divergent selves.

Do you have a creative prompt floating around in your brain that you’d like to share with a small group of humans? Wanna orchestrate a poetry reading? Is there a question at the intersection of writing & neurodivergence that you’d like to explore in an intimate setting? Or maybe you just love the idea of stretching your facilitation muscles in a kind, collaborative space?

I’m looking for like-hearted readers interested in being guest co-hosts for my Resiliency Circle gatherings next year.

Is that you? Do you want it to be you? Let’s talk:

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5) Also, I have a new blog

Because apparently I write too much to keep it all in one place? (lol) But also, it’s supposed to be good for website traffic.

Ya’ll…being self-employed is strange and beautiful and strange. At the end of the day, I am happy so long as I can focus on helping other humans through what I’m good at / obsessed with: building and nourishing creative autonomy.

Here’s an excerpt from a blog post called, “Creative Communion”:

“That critical, hesitant voice you sometimes hear? The one that bellows from a deep, familiar place inside you—it might not be your actual voice. It might not even belong to you.

We pick up these harsh voices—from school, from work, from family and intimate relationships—and carry them around with us for so long that we can forget what we really sound like.”

→ Read the rest on my website.

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6) Dear paid readers: Let me send you mail

This may not surprise you, but I’m obsessed with postcards—and I’ve got a stack of vintage ones dying to see the light of day.

This month, I want to send you—you!—direct, personal encouragement. Here’s how it works: