WelCome!
I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.
For nearly a decade, I was the primary caregiver for my mother as she lived with dementia. When that chapter ended, I found myself in a quiet, unfamiliar space — full of grief, full of possibility, and unsure where to begin.
The re:Membering Project was born from that silence. It became a way to gather the scattered pieces of myself and begin again — to honor what was lost, and to rediscover what still lived within me.
Through reflection, ritual, and storytelling, I began to remember who I was becoming. And in that remembering, I came back to something I had always known: story is not just something we tell — it is how we make sense of being human.
Story is how we carry memory when language fails.
How we survive loss.
How we pass on meaning.
How we shape identity, belief, and belonging.
Ravensong grew from that understanding.
It is the meeting place of all my creative work — a home for story, soul, and sacred craft. It’s where myth, folklore, ancestral memory, lived experience, and applied storycraft are allowed to exist together, without hierarchy or fragmentation.
Whether I’m working in personal reflection, mythic storytelling, or professional storycraft, the thread is the same: listening carefully for what wants to be told, and tending it with integrity.
Over time, this work expanded beyond my own story. I help others give voice to what they are carrying — shaping language, narratives, and creative containers where personal, professional, and collective stories can be spoken with clarity and care. Whether the work is intimate or meant to move in the world, the heart of it is the same: listening deeply, honoring complexity, and creating space for meaning to take form.
I believe stories are living things — rooted in memory, longing, and transformation. They can heal, haunt, and guide us home to ourselves. They are the oldest way humans have ever made meaning.
Ravensong Creative is the multidisciplinary home of writer and storyteller Martina Rutledge — a living weave of stories, reflections, and creative explorations.
Through projects like The re:Membering Project and Breath & Bone, I explore the art of remembering — crafting words that heal, connect, and illuminate the threads between past and possibility.
From podcasts to written works and essays, Ravensong Creative exists to honor story as sacred craft — a bridge between imagination and meaning.
✨Between breath and bone, the old stories rise.
I’m not here to fix or to teach—I’m here to listen, to share, and to walk beside anyone finding their way through the dark toward their own beginning again.
Welcome to the Crossroads.
May you find something here that lights a lantern on your path.
🌿 A Few Things About Me
I once co-hosted a paranormal podcast exploring the haunted histories of the Pacific Northwest — old buildings, restless echoes, and the spaces in-between. Those years taught me that every ghost story is, at heart, a story about love and memory.
My days are often spent wandering forests with my dogs — Luna, Cyrus, and their pups — companions in curiosity, wildness, and quiet joy.
I speak English, German, and French, can puzzle through a little Dutch, and am slowly learning Spanish. Language, to me, is another form of magic — a way of remembering the world in different voices.
I hold a Master’s degree and completed doctoral coursework in German literature, and once taught courses on fairy tales, goddess stories, and earth-based spirituality. Myth and meaning have always been my native languages.
I believe libraries are sacred, food is a love language, and stories might just be the oldest kind of spellwork.
My hair has been nearly every color under the sun. Transformation, it seems, is in my bones — and occasionally in my follicles.