Hi friend —

I'd like to share something personal with you today — something at the heart of what Creative Recess is becoming.

At the beginning of 2025, I left the academy and cashed in my retirement savings.

Not because it was easy.
Not because it made financial sense.

But because I knew I couldn’t keep living disconnected from my creativity, my purpose, my body, my joy.

I needed a reset.
I needed community.
I needed a return to myself.

That leap became Creative Recess — a space for softness, imagination, belonging, and brave creativity. A place where we practice becoming in community, instead of performing it alone.

And this year, extending the long season of transition, I returned to Kentucky — to the place that shaped me, held me, and taught me what it means to have roots. In that return, something clicked:

There really is no place like home – and I want Creative Recess to feel like that for you.

A place where you can land.
A place where you can breathe.
A place where you can remember who you are, and who you’re becoming.

✨ A Year on the Playground

Today I’m opening up a new chapter: A Year on the Playground: The expanded Creative Recess membership experience. Three tiers, designed to meet you wherever you are on your creative or personal journey:

🌈 Open Play – A soft beginning.

• A gentle, welcoming entry point into Creative Recess.
• Monthly Creative Recess, prompts, and a growing library of practices.
• $50/year (founding rate) through 12/31 —> regular price $99/year beginning Jan 1)

🎨 Creative Play – A deeper rhythm.

• Our core community: workshops, For Good sessions, guest facilitators, seasonal playbooks, and shared accountability.
• $100/year (founding rate) through 12/31 —> regular price $199/year beginning Jan 1)

🔮 Deep Play – A place for profound becoming.

• A transformational container with monthly coaching circles, 1:1 sessions, retreats, and our 2026 signature course.
• $250/year (founding rate) through 12/31 —> regular price $450/year beginning Jan 1)

✨ Explore the tiers + join here. Creative Recess is growing. If you join early, you get the most generous rate I’ll ever offer.

🎄 A Different Kind of Holiday Gift

This time of year can feel like a blur of buying, obligations, and endless “shoulds.”

But the gifts that truly change us aren’t things — they’re experiences, communities, and practices that help us feel more whole.

So instead of giving more stuff, this is an invitation to give something different:

Give a Year on the Playground.

To yourself.
To someone you love.
To someone who could use a soft place to land in the year ahead.

A year of creativity instead of clutter.
A year of connection, not comparison.
A year of meaning instead of more things to manage.

If you’d like to gift a membership, simply reply “Gift” and I’ll help you set it up — anonymously or named.

🗓️ FOUNDING RATES through December 31

Anyone who joins before midnight on December 31 keeps their founding annual rate for life.

On January 1, the 2026 prices go into effect.

Creative Recess began as a leap of faith — a bet on my own healing and possibility.

Now it’s becoming a global home for seekers, creatives, change-makers, caregivers, and anyone longing for a space to feel less alone and more whole.

A place to return to yourself.
A place to play forward the good you’ve received.
A place to feel at home.

There’s no place like it.
And I would love to welcome you in.

With creativity, warmth, and belonging,

-KP-

P.S.

If you’re not sure where to begin, start with Open Play — it’s gentle, accessible, and a beautiful way to arrive. You can always upgrade later and still keep your founding rate.