Through the Lens

Journey with me from the high-stress extremes as an emergency nurse leader to discovering balance and inner peace. I share heartfelt stories and my journey, transforming struggles into strengths. Bendable Life is about the search for the middle path.

Free resources and insights to help make your Substack the most exclusive party in town. *PLUS* a new class from ME&ORLA. Subscribe to hear more!

What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art. Subscribe to receive a link to my free poetry workshop in your inbox!

Poems, essays and commentaries as well as insights from my Three Sundays Series.

Don't just learn how Substack works; make Substack work for you. Expert guidance from the world's leading Substack Strategist. A top-10, bestselling, featured Substack.

A newsletter about pastries with a side of personal growth, from an ex-financial planner turned baker.

This is heart work

Navigating our individual worlds, together. Like a cozy conversation with close friends over coffee, we talk about experiences in motherhood, self-care, creative expression, unshaming ourselves, and whatever is surfacing for us to be lovingly explored.

A weekly love letter for sharing what's noticed and experienced as we practice presence through the ebb and flow of our lives.

a twice-monthly newsletter about the stories we stitch, the threads we pull, and the spaces we embody to become ourselves

Writing prompts and more to help you pay attention to what matters, and use your words for healing and resilience.

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

A life raft for writers at sea

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

✨ 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

Cultivating authenticity in a synthetic world. Ruminations on ancestral food, healthy living, family, homesteading, connection to the natural world, life, death and this radical little thing called "sovereignty".

A newsletter that explores the spiral of aliveness: the aches, the joys, and the liminal, from a therapist who is mostly just a human.