How we produce healing in a world that has forgotten who we are

Hi friends,

I am so excited to welcome my friend and teacher, Kaitlin B. Curtice to Field Notes! For those of you who don’t know , she’s an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker.

As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, Kaitlin writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. She also speaks on these topics to diverse audiences who are interested in truth-telling and healing.

She’s the author of several books for both children and adults including Spring’s Miracles: An Indigenous Celebration of Nature and Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God, which won Georgia Author of the Year, Religion, 2020. She also writes essays and poetry for here at Substack and spends her time supporting other authors as they navigate the world of publishing. Nowadays, Kaitlin lives near Philadelphia with her partner, two dogs, and two kids.

Kaitlin is also a dear friend. We go way, way back to the early days when Twitter was actually fun and we were in a shared blogger era, but she’s one of the rare ones who holds on to people. She has generously spoken at Evolving Faith and even contributed to my own collaborative book A Rhythm of Prayer (you’ll find her on page 107). Her work now has taken on a beautiful and generous interfaith expression as she advocates for an inter-spiritual approach.

Basically, I adore Kaitlin. She has a wisdom, grace, soulfulness, and groundedness that brings goodness. I have loved watching her evolve in public as she has become more fully herself, both on the page and off.

And! Kaitlin’s newest book came out earlier this month!

It’s called Everything is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives.

Everything is a Story is such a beautiful book: brilliant, healing, transformative and the best kind of companion. I made the mistake of reading it on an advanced PDF the first time - I say “mistake” because this was a book that I needed to mark up with highlights and underlinings and dog-ears on pages so that I could revisit certain passages over and over again so I was mighty glad I had preordered! I think you all would love it as a companion in these waning weeks of 2025 turn us towards contemplation and reflection.

I hope you find something in our conversation to tuck