Make Up Your Life

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A newsletter about creative practice by a fiction writer; awakening, inspiration, psychology, healing, motherhood, and sometimes grief. Vibes here lean Julia Cameron, witches around a cauldron, The Body Keeps the Score, the moon, and neuroscience.

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About Chelsea Bieker

Author of three books, most recently the national bestselling novel, Madwoman, and Godshot and Heartbroke. I write the Substack "Make Up Your Life" about creative practice. Co-Creator of The Fountain with the writer Kimberly King Parsons.

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