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Ch. 4 // Digital Detox
📚 The Practice of Attention Book Club 📚
Jun 8 • Emily Mohn-Slate
"Redefine yourself as the sky, and everything else as weather"
Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses💥
Jun 4 • Emily Mohn-Slate
Ass in Chair Collective // June 2026
Summer is here, the light is long. Let's use it!
May 29 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Erinn Batykefer
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Let's read The Practice of Attention together ✨
Apr 26 • Emily Mohn-Slate
How to (not) Read the News Now
Dec 5, 2024 • Emily Mohn-Slate
On Impermanence
Jan 29, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate
Attention & Writing Practices Workshop
Mar 13 • Emily Mohn-Slate
"Be an agent of change, not a victim of circumstance"
Feb 26 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Maia Duerr
My Jowls, My Jewels
Apr 29, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate

Essays

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"What lasted is what the soul ate"
on the textures of a spiritual life, part four
Apr 20 • Emily Mohn-Slate
“What lasted is what the soul ate”
on the textures of a spiritual life: Part Three
Dec 9, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate
“From Breathless Cry to Collective Sigh”
a Guest Essay by Barbara Ruth Saunders
Nov 12, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Barbara Saunders
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Beginner’s Mind Interviews

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"Redefine yourself as the sky, and everything else as weather"
Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses💥
Jun 4 • Emily Mohn-Slate
"You are right on time"
writer, artist, and movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott on starting a running practice, leaning into ritual, and taking life one day at a time ⚪
May 22 • Emily Mohn-Slate
"My own personal river"
novelist, editor, and writing coach Rachel Miranda on writing through major illness, losing track of time, and remembering that you are enough✨
May 14 • Emily Mohn-Slate
"a book is only a step, not a finish line"
novelist Davin Malasarn on the power of cultivating a sense of security, just playing in your work, and defining what success means for yourself 🌴
May 7 • Emily Mohn-Slate

Ass in Chair Collective

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Ass in Chair Collective // June 2026
Summer is here, the light is long. Let's use it!
May 29 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Erinn Batykefer
Ass in Chair Collective: May 2026
⚡Time to sign up for your weekly dose of creative community!⚡
May 2 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Erinn Batykefer
⚡FREE Ass in Chair: Mon, April 20th ⚡
This one's open to anyone—get on the list!
Apr 16 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Erinn Batykefer
Ass in Chair Collective: April 2026
Time to sign up for your weekly dose of creative community!
Mar 30 • Emily Mohn-Slate and Erinn Batykefer

Workshops, Book Club, Prompts

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Ch. 4 // Digital Detox
📚 The Practice of Attention Book Club 📚
Jun 8 • Emily Mohn-Slate
Ch. 3 // Digital Space
📚 The Practice of Attention Book Club 📚
Jun 1 • Emily Mohn-Slate
Ch. 2: The Attention Audit
📚 The Practice of Attention Book Club 📚
May 25 • Emily Mohn-Slate
The Practice of Attention Book Club
👁️ Ch. 1: What are you avoiding? 👁️
May 18 • Emily Mohn-Slate

Recs & Links

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just hibernate already
recs & links & a hibernation playlist for your deep winter days ✨
Dec 30, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate
waves upon waves of Recs & Links
for your melty August days
Aug 13, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate
A River of Recs & Links
for your almost-spring days
Mar 16, 2025 • Emily Mohn-Slate
some good things for you
recs & links for these winter days
Dec 17, 2024 • Emily Mohn-Slate
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