More recently this has evolved into a workbook that more broadly explores rituals that can allow for a life experienced more deeply, using deceivingly simple prompts, list-making exercises, and sensorial inventories to invoke conversations, connection, and personal awareness. Journaling can synthesize our idea of who we appear to be and who we actually are, serving as a hinge between our abstract ideas of personhood versus the tangible details of our days. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We are so excited to welcome our founder and director Olivia Crighton as a practitioner in the therapy room, where she will be offering a variety of healing services.

To tap into those uninterrupted moments of repose, we turned to our friend, Leigh Patterson of Moon Lists. The concept for Moon Lists was sparked by a random detail in a tiny regional magazine: a mention from photographer Sam Abell about a monthly question-asking, self-reflection ritual he shared with his wife. with a generous glimpse into the questions on his own personal Moon Lists, which were a set of questions they used to guide conversations and stay anchored in time and place every month.As longtime readers of Leigh Patterson’s online project, Moon Lists, this book is a fun personal way to connect with the author’s engaging questions.

The Moon Lists by Leigh Patterson is a workbook filled with questions, list-making ideas, and prompts for taking inventory of the self; One step in a direction of exploring parts of the mind + present tense that are new, unknown, and full of possibility. She is the founder of LUCCA, a creative studio centered around developing thoughtfully unexpected ideas, campaigns, and strategies for brands of all sizes. We spoke with Leigh about the inspiration behind this project and the importance of making time for deep and unexpected modes of thinking. We took a moment with her to reflect on her journey and explain about her unique services, as well as discovering her. I find a lot of delight in esoteric, strange things and absurd humor—spending a day gossiping with my friends, going down internet wormholes of my making, reading fiction, shooting the shit on the porch with my husband.From the twins to the crab, chatty Gemini yields to caring Cancer from June 22 – July 22 in the Western zodiac. The goal here is just to set aside time for weekly and monthly reflection, however that works best for you; it’s a reminder to notice something you might not otherwise and readjust your framing. Observing inner life in this format can be useful for both addressing the specific (ie: starting a new project or addressing an emotional block) or more generally distilling the magnitude of ongoingness into tangible examples.