Your phrase is LET GO
The hardest things to release are the ones that feel most like you — the piece you’ve been holding, the draft you keep revising, the version of your creative life you’ve been waiting to begin.
You know what it is. You’ve probably known for a while.
This phrase isn't asking you to stop caring. It’s asking you to open your hands and your heart.
This is how I practice it. Your way will look different.
Sit with it
Try this
Make something. Let it be ephemeral. It can be a drawing you’ll paint over. A paragraph you’ll delete. A meal that won’t be photographed.
Practice creating without the pressure of keeping. Notice what shifts when you let go of permanence.
I’ve painted over finished pieces, deleted essays I spent weeks on, let go of ideas that felt “just right.” The practice of releasing is its own creative act.
Sit with these:
What am I holding onto that I’ve already outgrown?
What would finishing look like if “finished” didn’t mean “perfect”?
What am I afraid will happen if I let this go? What might happen if I do?
Carry this
Letting go isn’t giving up. It’s making space.
If you want to go further, you can
This is one word in a practice with six. If you want to sit with all of them — the prompts, the questions, the space to write — the RIPPLE Practice Workbook is the companion I made for that.
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A Gentle Reminder
Your creative needs shift with life’s rhythms. The word that found you today is simply a reflection of where you are right now — not where you’ll always be.
If you took this quiz next week, next month, or next year, you might discover a completely different word calling to you. That’s not inconsistency — that’s being human.
Your creative spirit is allowed to need different things in different seasons.
The Practice Deepens in Community
There are many ways into this work. Where you go next depends on how you process — not on what your word was.
Be With Mansi is a monthly live gathering on Zoom.
No agenda. No performance.
Just a space to sit, create, reflect, or simply be—together.
If you’ve been craving connection without pressure, this is where we meet. Come when it calls to you. No need to commit.
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Inside the Studio is where the work between the work happens.
The beginnings, the experiments, the things that don’t quite work—but matter anyway.
If you want to stay close to my creative practice, you’re invited in.
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