Em Capito, LCSW

Em Capito, LCSW Soulful Resilience Therapist, Writer, Yoga & Meditation Teacher. Founder of Madrona, a nonprofit community of art and wellness for all beings.

This week: “Last week, my cue song played and I walked out onto a stage in front of 3,000 people, high-fiving the collea...
04/17/2026

This week: “Last week, my cue song played and I walked out onto a stage in front of 3,000 people, high-fiving the colleague who introduced me. I wasn’t afraid.

Here’s the thing: I was fully expecting barely concealed terror.

One of my core memories as a child was freezing up on a stage in Los Angeles...”

Read my full reflection on fear, my shock and awe when it didn’t show up last week, and how you’re also a being full of surprises (and also a photo of me circa 1993) ➡️ Substack link in bio

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Stalking the unfolding of spring through my favorite lilac bush, from the anticipation within humble buds to the blossom...
04/17/2026

Stalking the unfolding of spring through my favorite lilac bush, from the anticipation within humble buds to the blossoming, and of course the surprises, adversities, and resilience.

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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The 6th annual Wild Women Retreat is now open! Join us in Escalante to reconnect to your deeper knowing through nature.J...
04/14/2026

The 6th annual Wild Women Retreat is now open! Join us in Escalante to reconnect to your deeper knowing through nature.

June 12th-14th
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
All-inclusive retreat - lodging, meals, experiences, new friends!

Learn more and save your preferred lodging with a $100 deposit:
emcapito.com/wild-women

This week: “Last June, I set off on a vision quest with a 44-pound pack into Death Hollow near Escalante, Utah.I had bac...
04/11/2026

This week: “Last June, I set off on a vision quest with a 44-pound pack into Death Hollow near Escalante, Utah.

I had backpacked a 33-mile loop in the canyon the prior June, but this time the mission was to hike in quickly, set up camp in an alcove on the river, and then experience some kind of instructive transcendence.

What I experienced was ego-crushing humility (ie. exactly what I needed).

The term “vision quest” doesn’t fit. After a 10 mile hike in, the first 24 hours stripped away all of my perceived control. It was a surrender quest...”

➡️ Read now > Substack link in bio

Why the look back? In synchronistic timing, the 6th annual Wild Women Retreat is coming up on the same dates as my vision quest - one year later. We will gather in Escalante this year and journey back to this sacred alcove together to sit and surrender anew.

🏜️Registration is now open > link in bio

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It’s WILD to no longer be scared of this. Back around 2015, I was consulting with a literary agent and she was adamant t...
04/11/2026

It’s WILD to no longer be scared of this.

Back around 2015, I was consulting with a literary agent and she was adamant to all of her authors: you MUST also become a speaker in order to sell your book. I decided then that I was never going to publish because I was *that uncomfortable* with public speaking. Then TEDx happened like one GIANT loving bandaid rip. Six years and many stages later, I kinda love it.

Grateful to for being my supportive launchpad into fear.

And so glad to contribute to the community as a Health Science Advisory Board member.

“The Artist Date is a…festive, solo expedition to explore… think mischief more than mastery. Artist Dates fire up the im...
04/05/2026

“The Artist Date is a…festive, solo expedition to explore… think mischief more than mastery. Artist Dates fire up the imagination. They spark whimsy.” - Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Cameron encouraged a weekly artist date practice, but regardless of frequency, it often feels overdue. What was your last solo field trip into whimsy?

“…It’s early March and the trees stand tall and naked in contrast to the summertime temperature. There is a wondrous stirring when they comb the occasional breeze. All at once, the noisy bird chatter drops away as a dark cloud of red-winged blackbirds relocates just above my head, causing a rotted branch to crash down onto the path just a step away.

I am reminded that the difference between peace and violence is just one unpredictable misstep and that, more often than not, circumstances land in my favor...”

This post is a gift for my contributing readers on Substack. You can join us for $8 and cancel anytime if circumstances change. All revenue is donated to Madrona, a nonprofit community at the confluence of soul, art and nature.

💌 Read now ➡️ Substack link in bio

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This week: Returning to Julia Cameron and a regenerative way of living“…I often find myself returning to Cameron’s pract...
04/04/2026

This week: Returning to Julia Cameron and a regenerative way of living

“…I often find myself returning to Cameron’s practices in the spring. New growth is pushing up through the cold earth, often mirroring a resurgence in my own creative flow.

I also commonly find my way back out of desperation.

Regardless of politics, patriarchal capitalism conditions us to produce non-stop, based on a man’s 24-hour clock and a quarterly earnings report. It takes some unlearning to instead create in alignment with our individual bodies and environments.

As it often goes, both our inner nature and outer nature hold space for fallow periods. In fact, quite a lot of space…”

“We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will — not where we will it.”
- Julia Cameron

Read the full post ➡️ Substack link in bio

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A sweet little wander into spring. What a wonder that we, too, are of this wild world, with all our light and darkness. ...
04/04/2026

A sweet little wander into spring. What a wonder that we, too, are of this wild world, with all our light and darkness.

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Look, it’s spring. And last year’s loose dust has turned
into this soft willingness. The wind-flowers have come
up trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their
curvaceous and pale bodies. The thrushes have come
home, none less than filled with mystery, sorrow,
happiness, music, ambition.

And I am walking out into all of this with nowhere to
go and no task undertaken but to turn the pages of
this beautiful world over and over, in the world of my mind.

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Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.

- A Settlement by Mary Oliver

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