The Rootkeepers

Not another newsletter that asks you to do more. A letter that arrives like a hand on your shoulder reminding you to tend the roots before you ask anything else of yourself.

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What arrives in your mailbox

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A ROOTED LETTER
Each week begins with a personal story or reflection written slowly, from the inside out. The kind of letter that asks you to pause before it asks you to do anything.

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PROMPTS & RITUALS
Journaling prompts, creative or somatic practices to help you tune in before you show up. Small enough to do in five minutes. Deep enough to carry you through the week.

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WHAT IS NOURISHING ME
A song on repeat, a book I cannot put down, a voice I have recently discovered… The things that are feeding my roots this week, offered in case they might feed yours too

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WHAT IS UNFOLDING AT COLLECTIVE ROOTS.
New offerings, blog posts, behind-the-scenes reflections, and invitations. You will always hear about new work here first. .

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meet your letter writer Charlotte Gomes

Founder of Collective Roots PR

Hi, I’m Charlotte. I write these letters the same way I work with clients: slowly, from the roots up. Each one begins with something I have been sitting with: a metaphor that arrived on a walk, a somatic practice that shifted something, a threshold moment in my own creative life that felt worth sharing.

I have spent more than a decade working with creatives, visionaries, and changemakers and what I have noticed most consistently is that the work that travels farthest always begins in the quietest places.

The Rootkeepers was created to tend those places, week by week, together.

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The Rootkeepers

QUIZ

Discover which creative season you are moving through.

Before you can tend the roots, it helps to know which season they are in. This short quiz takes three minutes and names something you may have been feeling for a while without quite knowing what to call it.