Welcome To The Art of Rest
- Dagny Deutchman
- Nov 6, 2024
- 3 min read
A Branding Shift From Pomegranate and Magpie
If you’re receiving this email, you’ve probably been engaging with my work under the name Pomegranate and Magpie for the past several years. This email is a threshold that officially shifts my small business into a new chapter.
After two full years of organically growing my small business, following the threads of sustainable work, and putting considerable thought into what the best use of my time and energy is—I underwent a re-branding process with an amazing marketer. While fine-tuning the work I already do, and stepping towards the work I’d like to do more of, it became clear that I needed to shift the name of my business as well as a few priorities within the existing structure.
Engaging with The Art of Rest
This newsletter platform is the best way to stay in the highest level of communication with the work that The Art of Rest will be doing moving forward. While I’m just now finding time to make the shift, it is likely that I will eventually aim to be sending out mailings from this account weekly.
As someone who personally hates spam-y emails, I am going to do my best to make sure the content I send out is high quality, relevant, and engaging. The intentions of The Art of Rest mailing list are to:
Keep you in the loop on all of the regular happenings at The Art of Rest
Provide educational resources around sleep health, mindfulness and self-compassion practices, as well as resources around health, stress, and trauma-related psychology topics
Share creative practices around art, movement, storytelling, and land-based connection
Present opportunities for reflection and inquiry into your current practices around art, rest, and intentionally living a creative life
If you’re someone who loves staying in touch regularly—great! You don’t have to change anything! There are even some MORE ways to support my upcoming work in the footnotes if you read this on substack. However, if you’re someone who wants to stay in touch with the work done at The Art of Rest, but would only like high-level updates please make sure to indicate that with the button below.
And of course, you can also follow along with us on Instagram as well.
What is Happening to Pomegranate and Magpie?!
Great question! The answer is a little bit complicated, but in the simplest terms for the sake of this update is that Pomegranate and Magpie is shifting from a business to something more of a personal, creative space. At least for now, I will still be updating my Pomegranate and Magpie substack regularly. However, the content is likely to shift to be more creative writing and be more-or-less completely separate from the work of my small business. If you’ve enjoyed the unadulterated, soul-led explorations that Pomegranate and Magpie has navigated, please feel free to go follow along there.
What Else Do I Need to Know About this Branding Shift?
Honestly, nothing! Much of my day-to-day work is going to remain the same for the time being. The rest of the changes will be a slow roll-out and I will be intentional about communicating them as they arrive.
Some Final Gratitude
Whether you’re a friend or family member, someone who has attended one of my workshops, a 1:1 client, or a colleague doing similar work—I just want to say thank you for being here. I could not be doing this work without you and I am beyond grateful for your support so far in my journey. I am so excited about this next chapter…much more on the way!
In the meantime—Thanks for your continued support and I look forward to striving towards better rest—alongside you!
Cheers,
Dagny
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