How to Be Alive | Carter Umhau | Substack

introducing the HOW TO BE ALIVE podcast!

And what my eyeliner-wearing, Death Cab-loving teen self has to do with it.

Jan 15 • Carter Umhau

hello, hello, hello

announcing my podcast(!) and breaking my silent streak

Jan 12 • Carter Umhau

Accidentally scattered

Performing the perfectionistic tight-rope walk of trying to find equilibrium

Dec 5, 2023 • Carter Umhau

The compost heap of creativity

revelations from a writing rut, and the alchemy of sharing

Nov 14, 2023 • Carter Umhau

A poem as a beginning, as a prayer, as a manifesto.

Jumping in before I'm ready--welcome to The Peach & The Pith!

Oct 24, 2023 • Carter Umhau

How to Be Alive

How to Be Alive

How to Be Alive looks to creative process as both a map and the ultimate practice ground for figuring out this being human thing. Through podcast interviews and written word, artist and therapist Carter Umhau builds a collective vision of creative living.

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