Well hey! I’m a lot, I mean, I am Moorea Seal.
And I contain a whole lot of multitudes as I am sure you do too.
You might recognize me from various things like authoring the best selling 52 Lists guided journal series (1.4 million sold!) Or maybe you once visited my giant storefront that was in downtown Seattle (RIP.) Perhaps you know me from the old days of blogging on blogspot.com, when I thought I was straight and was an influencer and did a really good job of performing and people pleasing for the world at large while also oversharing about how I was in constant survival mode and not doing well... Well, In 2020, it all cracked open. I accepted my queerness, got divorced, closed a booming retail business that was sucking my soul, left an abusive business partnership, and found freedom within an Autism diagnosis. Yes, it was a lot.
But wow, I am a BETTER and truer me. A happier, more authentic me. I hold a more empowered self that is grateful to get to use what I’ve experienced to help others and myself at the same time. Like RuPaul says, “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?” I’ve learned to love me, and I hope what I share here helps you to love you too.
You can now find all that I do and all I create at mooreaseal.com!
And for visual learners like me, here are the unmasked me’s of recent years:
I’ve been many me’s and explored many selves that didn’t always feel right but were still important to explore on the path to finding my true north. Curiosity lead me into many self made creative careers: Authorship, designing clothing, desktop products and jewelry, running a now closed retail store with over 140 brands and designers, and much more.
These days you can find me designing a tarot deck and workbook with Clarkson Potter (out Fall 2024), writing and designing journals with Sasaquatch Books, painting abstract art and landscapes, designing products, and advising creatives and neurodivergent folks in their many endeavors. When I’ve got a little extra time, I interview fascinating folks on my podcast. My curiosity is a passionate creature, a challenger and a helper. And it pushes me to keep my weekly public journaling, err, my years of newslettering going through my current favorite platform, Substack :)
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52 Lists with Moorea Seal, the Podcast
is an every so often interview series featuring notable + fascinating people who share their stories to empower you! Recent guests include Dr Devon Price, educator, activist and author of Unmasking Autism, Tori Dunlap, author of Financial Feminist, and Morgan Harper Nichols, multidiscipline artist and author of You are Only Just Beginning.
Fill out a list with us from my 52 Lists journal series. Hear your heroes spill secrets they've never shared before and reveal insights as to how they've accomplished their dreams and unlocked their truest identities. Discover valuable personal wisdom that you can't find anywhere else!
More about me:
I’m proudly on the Autism spectrum.
I’m Queer, and I live in Seattle, WA with my partner, Vic + our dogs Lemon and Margo.
Life long musician, former retailer, jewelry designer, illustrator, painter and writer.
Spiritual + Skeptical. I was raised in a weird cultural mix of conservative Christianity and progressive Buddism. These days, I am somewhere within agnostic-atheist with a dash of woowoo, and a hope that everything is connected. Maybe what some label as prayer is also manifestation, also energy, hope, yearning, belief, or other labels that speak to you. Maybe we are all unique and all the same all at once.
3rd Culture Kid. My first identity was formed while I grew up in a village 400 in rural England. I adapted to American culture in the early 90s and spent my teen years in a rural hippy/hick town of 3,000 in Northern California. And I’ve lived my grown up life in Seattle, WA since 2005.
She/They, aka a Non-binary woman. Womanhood has never been able to tell my full story, in fact, it’s shut out huge parts of my identity in it’s binary. But I'm not fully divested from it. Non-binary completes my story, my experience, my existence.
Gemini sun - Sagittarius moon - Cancer rising
Enneagram 8 (Challenger) wing 5 (Investigator)
Meyers Briggs: INTP (The Logician)
Human Design: Generator - 2/4 - Opportunist Hermit
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