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Permission Slips

“Taking Down Walls: Learning how to heal in an old home.” Decor Maine Interiors Issue, Oct. 2026

It All Gets To Belong by Jane Ratcliffe

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer, teacher, and somatics practitioner Johanna Franzel

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‘Write Yourself Home’ with Johanna Franzel by Clare Morin

New podcast episode! The Stream Conversations

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Write Yourself Home by Sparklandia⚡️🪩⚡️

Johanna Franzel Wrote Something Important

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In the pause
Johanna Franzel Johanna Franzel

In the pause

In this in-between time, many of us find ourselves, as Octavia Raheem tells us, in the pause between “what is ‘no longer’ and what is ‘not yet.’” How do we summon the courage to stay in the pause? How do we meet ourselves with kindness in the midst of paradox?

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