Hello,

Many of you have been following along over the last year as I have navigated dual careers. You’ve been incredibly supportive as I explored what it means to operate simultaneously as a cultural strategist and a classical homeopath, and I am grateful to have a community that understands these are not competing paths, but parallel ones.

In fact, several of you will recognize the essay I’m sharing today, as you read its early, two-part iterations. I want to genuinely thank you for your patience and for the thoughtful feedback you offered as I wrestled these ideas onto the page.

The final, unified piece, How Do You Trust a Mystery?, was just published by Willa Köerner at her trailblazing newsletter Dark Properties. It details the cumulative toll of sustained, creative leadership that led me to this work, and explores how we can simultaneously hold both hard metrics and the unexplainable realities of lived experience.

As I’ve formalized my practice over the last few months, I’ve realized that these two tracks of my life don't just run alongside one another; they are driven by a similar logic. Whether I’m moving alongside people building new arts ecosystems or sitting with a client in the clinic, the instinct is the same: look beneath the presenting crisis, address what's actually driving it, and trust that the system has more capacity for health than it appears. Then, introduce a mechanism that catalyzes self-healing.

To hold both of these practices together sustainably, here is how I have formalized my structure moving forward.

The homeopathy practice is now capped at 20 active members on a concierge retainer model. That cap is a clinical necessity. The kind of deep listening that actually moves things—identifying underlying signals of exhaustion and addressing them precisely—does not survive high-volume pressure. It also reflects the reality that my ongoing strategic work in the arts sector takes serious time and attention, and I would rather do both things well than stretch either one thin.

Here is the part I am most excited about: The practice runs on a cross-subsidy model. When executives and corporate clients join at their tier, that directly opens up subsidized spots (read: free) for artists and creative workers who need this kind of care but could not otherwise access it. You are not donating to a fund. You are becoming part of a structure that makes equitable access possible by design, because it is baked into the architecture from the start. It is a model that directly addresses, in part, the systemic wellness issues I witness daily in the cultural sector.

For those of you receiving this who are current clients, please know that this formalization does not alter your existing care plan. Our work together continues exactly as is. If something here resonates with what you are building, or if you know someone this work should reach, I would love an introduction.

Until next time,

Roddy