I met fellow Michigander Marlee Grace years ago at her then store in Grand Rapids Have Company with my friend and former guest Abbey. I bought a zine from her about body image and started following her then new instagram account where she danced. I kept up with her on the internet over the years and watched as her life grew and changed. She got divorced, wrote a couple books, moved to California, all while dancing and making things. We discuss all of this plus creativity, process, family, moving, routines, tattoos, friendship, and feeling feelings. Her work, her creative advising, and in particular her new book How to Not Always Be Workingand her zine How a Photo and Video Sharing Social Networking Service Gave Me My Best Friends, True Love, A Beautiful Career, and Made Me Want to Die had a profound impact on me in 2018 so I was real excited to have her on the podcast to discuss them both, plus what’s next for her this year.

Show Notes

Marlee Grace on The Web | Instagram

Marlee’s Books:

–Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickins

–Woody Guthrie New Years Rulins

-Her former store Have Company

-How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price

–Article on how social media is designed to make us addicted on Vice

–Marlee’s Creative Advising Sessions

–Ellen Rutt painter, recording podcast at her apartment

–Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that helped Marlee get sober

-Marlee’s tools for feeling the feels:

–Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr

-Marlee’s best friend Katie Crutchfield

–Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abromovic

–My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One by Elena Ferrante

-Fleetwood Mac’s albums Tusk and Rumours

-King Princess song Pussy is God

–Badlands Movie

–Angel Nafis poetry

–Solange Knowles, artist who inspires Marlee

-Marlee’s dance mentors The Architects

–Hilma Klimt show at the Guggenheim

Likes & Learns

–Dried mulberries! My new favorite snack.

–Freaky Health Chocolate by my friend Karolina

–Emmy’s Organics use code LETITOUT to get 40% off your first order!

-A lesson from my friend and former podcast guest Dr Samantha Boardman. She says when you’re feeling depressed or anxious to do the thing that’s ‘un-you’ or not like you what you would normally do to change the pattern.

-We need each other! Remember to all lean on your friends 🙂

Cool Things To Check Out

-A signed copy of Marlee’s book How to Not Always Be Working giveaway! Tag @katiedalebout and @marleegrace on Instagram to enter.

-My journaling class with Bluprint goes live today, January 23rd, and I can’t wait to share it with you guys!

-Sign-up for my newsletter to get updates on where I’ll be and what I’m loving!

–Join the listener Facebook Group

-Get my book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling.

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