Rooted Letters
A seasonal correspondence ritual for those
who believe in the power of human connection
Deep down, you already know we are not as separate as we have been taught to believe.
Most of what we share disappears. It is seen for a moment: liked, scrolled past, and more often than not: forgotten. We pour our words onto the page, opening our hearts so that what we say may land in the life of another whilst knowing, somewhere, that the spaces we're sending these words to were never designed to receive them. What if there was somewhere else for your words to go? Not into a feed but into the hands of one specific human being, who was waiting for exactly what you had to give. Someone who, in a different city, a different language, a different body, is carrying something that rhymes with yours. A person who will read what you wrote with presence and who will write back, not to fix, not to advise but simply to meet you, in the place where your words came from.
Rooted Letters was created for that.
Introducing
The Rooted Letters
Rooted Letters is a three-month seasonal correspondence ritual: a guided experience of expression, witnessing, and human connection.
When you join, you are matched with one person: a stranger who shares one poetic sentence about their lived experience around the theme of the month, just as you share one of yours. That sentence becomes the living thread between you. From it, a letter begins to take shape. You send yours. They send theirs.
But the experience goes further than reviving the quiet magic of letter writing. It becomes a practice of expressing the wisdom drawn from your own lived experience, a way of offering your way of seeing the world to someone who doesn’t know you yet, and discovering that your words, when written from that place, tend to land exactly where they are meant to.
Each month, alongside the thread you receive, a digital workbook arrives. Inside it, a ritual to help you return to your body before writing, and a guided practice to attune to the frequency of what is present in you and in the words you’ve been given. From there, what you write is not constructed but felt. You don’t offer advice. You share from the place where your experience lives, knowing, somewhere, beneath your different lives, you are already connected by the same roots.
How the experience unfolds
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YOU RECEIVE A THREAD
Each month begins with a sentence. A fragment of someone’s lived experience, shaped by the theme. You don’t know their story. Only what this one line holds. And something in you recognises it.
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THE DIGITAL WORKBOOK
Alongside the thread, a digital workbook arrives. Not as something to complete, but as a space to enter. Through a letter, a somatic practice, and a creative invitation, you are guided back into your body, into your current state, into what is actually present in you before you begin to write. Because what you offer carries more when it begins from what is felt, rather than what is thought.
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YOU ATTUNE BEFORE YOU WRITE
You sit with the thread you received. Not to understand it but to feel it. Through a guided practice, you are invited to connect to what their words awaken in you, allowing your letter to emerge from that shared human ground. You are not writing into a space that moves fast or disappears, but toward someone who is moving through the same process, preparing themselves to receive what you share with presence. And when words are written and received in that way, something in the body softens.
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YOU WRITE AND LET YOUR WORDS TRAVEL
From there, you write your letter. Not to advise or fix anything but to meet. You draw from your own lived experience, allowing your words to carry something real, something that might land, resonate, or gently shift something for the person receiving them. You send your letter, handwritten or digital, in whatever way honours where you are. One letter each month. For three months. Shaped by the theme, deepening the same thread between you.
this is for you if
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You’ve always felt drawn to the idea of having a correspondent, of writing and being written to by someone you don’t yet know.
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You love words: poetry, journaling, writing that comes from somewhere true but you've never found a space that honours that without turning it into content.
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You are drawn to somatic, creative and intuitive practices and you want your creative expression to emerge from that same depth.
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You want to experience what your words become, not when they reach many, but when they truly reach one.
this isn’t for you if
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You are looking for a structured writing method or storytelling framework.
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You are not in a place where slowing down feels possible.
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You are not drawn to deeper, more reflective conversations.
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You’re not able to commit to a three-month correspondence.
Investment
A founding price for the first circle, before the experience opens further.
€60
for the full season (3 months)
You will receive:
One matched correspondent for the full three months
One letter sent and one letter received each month (three letters written, three letters received over the season)
One poetic line (the thread) each month: a fragment of your correspondent’s lived experience, shaped by the monthly theme.
A way to write to them directly: handwritten or digital, depending on your rhythm
A comprehensive monthly digital workbook: guiding you back into your body, your creativity, and your voice before, during and after you write your letter.
meet your guide Charlotte Gomes
Founder of Collective Roots PR
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the invisible thread between things. The sense that beneath the noise and the disconnection, something deeper is still running through all of us.
I saw it first in music, standing in rooms full of strangers who arrived separately and left changed. Then in my own healing, finding my way back to myself through practices and rituals older than the systems I had grown up trusting. But I also saw it in letters.
In 2019, I created Lift Me Up Letters: an initiative where people submitted what they were going through, and I wrote over 230 handwritten letters to strangers around the world, offering words of comfort to people I had never met and would never see. Then in 2025, I ran Secret Santa Letters: matching strangers to one another so that on Christmas morning, someone, somewhere, would open their door to find a letter written just for them.
The goal was always the same: to deepen human connection. To remind us that we are never truly alone. To revive the quiet magic of writing to someone you don't know and discovering, through the act of reaching, that something in them was already reaching back.
Because I have always believed that our lived experiences, when extracted with care and offered with honesty, become something more than personal. They become a practice. A way of pausing long enough to see what we have learned, what we are carrying, and what we might pass along to someone who needed exactly that. Rooted Letters was born from all of it. From the letters I wrote to strangers. From the practices that brought me home to my own body. From the conviction that when we write from a place of genuine depth and send it toward one specific human being who is ready to receive it something shifts. In them. In us. In the invisible thread that was always running between us.
We are woven from the same roots. This is why I created The Rooted Letters.
Join the Waitlist now!
Rooted Letters will open once there are enough people to form the first circle of correspondences. If you feel called to be part of this founding season, you can leave your details below. I’ll be in touch personally when the circle is ready to begin.
frequently asked questions
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Every member commits to the full experience when they join including writing and sending their letter each month. That said, life happens. If something arises, reach out and I will do my best to find a solution. This is a community built on presence and care, and that extends to how we hold each other when things don't go as planned.
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Yes and I hope you will. You have each other's details from the very beginning. If something real forms between you, you are free to keep writing independently. Some of the most beautiful things this experience can produce are the connections that continue long after the season closes.
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Rooted Letters opens as soon as I have enough people gathered to form a first circle of matches. Places are limited by the nature of the matching this is not an open-enrollment course but a carefully curated experience. When you join the waitlist, I will reach out personally the moment we are ready to begin.
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Not at all. Rooted Letters is not about writing well, it is about writing honestly. The monthly workbook guides you back into your body before you write a single word, so what emerges comes from a felt place rather than a performed one. If you have something real to say, you are ready.
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Both are welcome. When you join the waitlist, you indicate your preference and I match you with someone who shares it. Whether your letter travels by post or by email, what matters is the same: that something real left your hands and reached someone who was waiting for it.
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You will be matched with someone based on language, preferences, and the way you respond to the process, so that the exchange feels aligned and supportive.
Where our roots meet,
our stories come
together as one
We begin as soon as the first circle is ready.