Kaitlin B Curtice

The U.S. in Gaza narrative is essentially, reinforcement of what this country has always been. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Native Nations should really pay attention to that.

fortify inside why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

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Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—

And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.

Practical tips & bigger picture here:

The Sacred OBGYN Office in Trump's America on peacocks and bodies of wonder

I was actually saving these words for a future book, but I couldn’t hold on to them, not right now, not in the season of America we find ourselves in. Please go read the whole piece if you can, and ask how sacred spaces are created ♥️✨

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Words and presence are medicine. ✨ May we never forget that.

I still have space this spring and summer for events, and I’d really love to draw in more of this energy, the healing kind, the kind we are all seeking together right now.

So if you know of a place, Lean in with me. Let’s create sacred spaces together because god knows we need them right now.

In a very real way, I feel this reciprocity with my books, my journey, every retreat I lead or keynote lecture I give or group of college students I spend time with. The journey is reciprocal, we are drawn to each other.

It’s hard work, constantly trying new things, attempting to understand algorithms without losing our humanity along the way. At the end of the day, I want to connect with and inspire people, that’s why I’m here doing this.

This image is from my very first speaking event. I was there to tell a story, and little did I know it would open up the world—my world—to me.

Being an author and public speaker is not as idyllic as we act like it is.

Happy birthday week dear friend! It makes my heart so happy to know you celebrated this way ♥️♥️

Right now we don’t need you to try and be someone else. This moment in history needs people who are dedicated to being themselves prophetically, who use their gifts to make the world a more beautiful, tender place in the midst of chaos, oppression and hate.

Invest in your gifts.

We need you.

What I'd Tell You From The Cocoon trusting the safety of the darkness

…this winter has really felt very cocoon-like for me, another sort of incubation period in which I’m doing a lot of necessary, difficult, beautiful healing.

I think sometimes we need the cocoon.

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I will need a lot of coffee today.

Hey solidarity, friends. Send funny memes. Watch puppy and kitten vids. Stay UP, whatever you do, however that looks. Our little ones & elders need us.

SO excited to announce my third children’s book is available for preorder now! 😍😍🥹🥹

This book combines everything I love—nature, rock climbing, family, and healthy nervous system practices rooted in the earth. Please preorder, it means a lot!

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Couldn’t be more proud of @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social. Here’s the Kirkus Review for her upcoming children’s book.

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Oh I love it!!

NEW BOOK: No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility

A collection of essays that outline the recent work on ecology, political theology, religion, and philosophy by one of the leading theologians of our age.

Get a copy: buff.ly/4fXoBjZ

And next fall, my newest adult nonfiction book will be released on the power of storytelling. Here’s a hint:

Can’t wait to share more in the new year! Thanks for supporting my words and work. It means the world to me. Onward ♥️

The third book in the children’s series will be out in March, and let’s just say it’s about embodiment and facing our fears. ✨✨✨

An Indigenous Celebration of Nature by Kaitlin B. Curtice - Penguin Random House An Indigenous family shares their love and appreciation for Earth and its seasons in this four-book series by Potawatomi author, Kaitlin B. Curtice. Following the release of Winter’s Gifts, Summer’s M...

Then another dream came true for me: writing kids books! They are based on the four seasons from a Potawatomi family’s perspective. It’s a dream to publish an Indigenous book series with PRH. And it’s helped me remember my childlikeness.

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And Living Resistance came out last year, and this book was a balm to write. It gave me hope, reminded me of the universal power of love and kinship. ♥️

Then I wrote Native in 2020, the most difficult to write, reckoning with my upbringing in the southern Baptist church and what it means to be Potawatomi in America. Some of my favorite poetry I’ve written is in this book.

First Glory Happening, out in 2017. I was expanding in my spiritual thinking so much when I wrote this. Our kids were babies, we lived in a tiny apartment in Atlanta, and I was soaking up the small, everyday gifts of the universe. I’ll always appreciate that season.

Sometimes people ask how old I am, assessing what it means that I’ve written 8 books (3 adult, 2 kids, 3 coming). It doesn’t always catch up to me until I remember again.

I’ve been writing since I was about 7yo, and I don’t really know anything else. Here’s a list of my books and why I love them.

Sometimes people ask how old I am, assessing what it means that I’ve written 8 books (3 adult, 2 kids, 3 coming). It doesn’t always catch up to me until I remember again.

I’ve been writing since I was about 7yo, and I don’t really know anything else. Here’s a list of my books and why I love them.

Bird Lady in Home Alone thoughts on loneliness, magic and trust

I saw somewhere that Home Alone was voted favorite Christmas film and of course I thought of who I think of every year at this time, Bird Lady, my fav character in the second film.

Wrote this a few years ago, for all the other Bird Lady fans 🕊️♥️🌲

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Grief and love are not emotions at the opposite ends of a spectrum. They are siblings that live together. Entities born under the same sign.

“Stay in the spiritual fire.
Let it cook you.”

—Rumi

When I say I want a home library I mean I want thousands of books in my house and also everyone shutup

In difficult times, we ask what our role is. As a poet and storyteller, as a healer, I have to ask these same questions.

And the answer is in the medicine, in the words, the care, the embodiments of love. It’s in the way we show up to our souls and to the souls of others.

Lean in.

Friends, my new children's book Winter's Gifts came out one week ago! And it's been featured on the Brightly Storytime YouTube channel! You can watch it below, and please share it with teachers, parents, and caregivers:
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