A few thoughts on what I'm wearing, words I'm writing, and the world we wander.

A year-long experiment in purposeful productivity, all through the lens of mental health and wellbeing. New posts every Tuesday at 7am Pacific. 💚

Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. Interruptions are not forever. I'm writing again. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.

Permission to live your best life and advice on how to do it, from a bestselling author of sweary self-help. (Me!)

How three friends came together to write a romance novel

Meet the beloved pets that lived with beloved artists. Posts delivered monthly.

A sanctuary for slowing down. Sparking inquiry to live a deeper life. Come for the breathwork, stay for the personal essays.

Turning Life into Fiction, titled after my craft book, 30 years in print, focuses on various forms of life writing from autobiographical fiction to memoir to autofiction.

Build the Substack you really want with expert guidance from the leading Substack Strategist, Sarah Fay. A top-10, featured Substack.

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

How can we live well in this complicated world?

This is heart work

I read a lot and share what I learn. Spiritual seeker. Pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are so we can re-write a truer version. Host of the podcast Pulling the Thread, and author of the New York Times bestseller ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR.

Nedra Nuggets is a heart-to-heart with a therapist—short, practical, and packed with wisdom! Each week, I break down boundaries, relationships, and mental health into bite-sized, relatable advice you can actually use. No fluff, no jargon—just real talk.

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

Cautionary tales, unsolicited advice, and notes on living in liminal space, evolution, and returning to yourself.

Complex times usher us beyond comfort to the depths of human becoming. These letters are meditative essays devoted to the unfolding of us.

Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast and The Unspeakeasy Live, a weekly livestream on Thursday at 3 pm ET featuring nuanced AF conversations with guests, friends and audience members. Plus new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

Weekly personal essays about wealth, class, and capitalism from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

Insight, tools and uplifting wisdom from Tibetan Buddhism. Sign up for stories and articles to enhance your inner peace and wellbeing.

Re-politicizing mental illness and embracing the weird

A space for personal growth and authentic living, told through the words of a reformed ex-wellness influencer.

Engaging with poetry as an act of deep transformation, surrender & embodiment, so we can meet life's overwhelm from unshakable peace.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Mental health without all the bollocks

You're not crazy, the world is.

mental health, science, life hacks, updates about and insights from my new book about personality change

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Experiments in self-reclamation and building a life on purpose.

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

A critical review of the beauty industry prioritizing people, not products.

A twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process, with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Sometimes I feel like writing things, so this is where I write them.