Over Three Years of Newslettering

Overcoming self-doubt / plus, some newsletter recommendations

Hello Writers and Artists and Readers,

Thanks for hanging in with me through my ups and downs. That’s what it is to be a writer, right? The ups and downs? Or maybe that’s what being a human is.

I am feeling better than I was a few days ago, and I’m grateful for that. It’s so easy to find myself lifted by an undertow. I can exhaust myself struggling against the current, but thankfully I remember to let go before I lose my breathe. I let go, and the sea carries me.

I am in the sea now, drifting; remembering that I am the sea and you are the sea and we are all the sea, and we are all carried and we can all struggle but we cannot refuse the power of the ocean.

It’s been a little over three years since I started this newsletter.

There are many Substackers who have been inspiring me lately, and I am grateful for them. Holly Whitaker’s most recent essay on Recovering was a lovely morning read. I may have cried through a lot of it. Yes, you have to be a subscriber. Yes, a paying subscription is…