Essays about my dysfunctional family and my often fabulous gay father, coming out as a writer, depression, working a 12-Step program for recovery from disordered thinking and eating. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's sad. It's all me.
Emily Dickinson said she was “out with lanterns, looking for myself.” I often know where I am, but it’s also fun to keep looking. This is where I write to figure it all out.
For Women Who Roar is an online journal featuring women's poetry and stories worldwide. Read new works each week as they come through your inbox. Enjoy and keep roaring!
Where Art Meets Psychology. We are not all "tortured geniuses" and art isn't always therapy but there is so much richness and connection and magic in the in between. Let's play, communicate, and learn there.
Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)
Just discovered Sam's Substack. What a great read for midlife women.
Do you want to rip the band-aid off and talk about what’s really going on inside? Me too. Let’s Blow up all the crap we’ve been taught about what makes us good and worthy and get down to what will actually make up happy, fulfilled, and satisfied.
Writing coach Jena Schwartz offers readers fierce encouragement for writing + life in the form of poetry, personal essays, and opportunities to write, reflect, and grow together.
Real conversations and personal stories to help midlife women redefine health beyond diets and restriction, navigate perimenopause, and find liberation through radical self-love.
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship helps you with your friendships. Why isn't your friend texting you? She's mad at you! Probably not. But maybe she is? Friendship is tricky, even for grownups. Let's discuss.
Nina's advice is practical, fun, and smart. We love her podcast!
A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame
We published an essay by Maggie in our Mothering Through the Darkness, and we love everything she's written, especially YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL.
Style advice, shopping picks, pop culture, and opinion for over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from former Sassy staffer and Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief Kim France.
Kim France's Substack about being stylish and informed at "our age"
