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10 Substack reads that will change your day for the better...

Articles I've read this week that has given me life and brought joy to my heart!

Claire Venus (she/her) ✨

Mar 17, 2023

You know already how much I love Substack as a creator and a reader!

One of the things I found tricky at first, was finding folks to subscribe to and read. I use the substack app for reading and the desktop for writing.

Of course, it was easy to find the ‘big’ names but their style tended to be confident journalistic writing and I like a mixed reading experience here. I love a suprise ‘un-staged’ photo or a vulnerable share - I’m all about the messy human experience - after all I’m having one too!

We are influenced and inspired in so many subtle ways irl and online.

I’ve done a lot of work on my own self development over the years and I know for me, connecting to folk who feel ‘like minded’ is really important. It gives me a sense of community and spirit as a solo creative.

To celebrate my BRAND new course launching TODAY! Stay Creative with Substack, here is a mixed bag of 10 Substack articles I’ve adored diving into this week…

The Light on the Sea

The Illustrated House

Find Gillian: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Etsy Hi friends and happy Sunday-instead-of-Friday this week! I’m later again because I’ve kind of moved up to ‘marathon runner’ level as a working artist which is both exciting and a totally massive learning curve about how to be creatively productive all day every day and put in the longer hours…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 5 comments

Where The Year of More has taken me, so far

Hi friend, If you’re new here, something you might not know about me is that I left Canada in January 2022 and immigrated to the UK. I currently live …

2 years ago · 52 likes · 41 comments · Cait Flanders

what writing feels like

This month I feel grateful to have realised a long-held ambition; to make the majority of my income from writing. To be transparent, this is mostly from writing jobs and not my books - I will sing that dream from the hills when it happens! - but it’s a fulfilling way to support further creations from my wild, moonlit inner world…

2 years ago · Kate MacRitchie

The Queenager with Eleanor Mills

Eleanor's Letter: Slow Down Ladies, there's time!

The Queenager revolution: Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh celebrate the latters award-season success and prove women really do come into their prime in midlife Dear Queenagers Well I reckon we’ve had a pretty good week! LOVE the fact that Michelle Yeoh has been nominated for an Oscar at 62, alongside Cate Blanchett, 53 for the incredible movie Tar. About time that a woman was allowed to be a creative genius narcissist with a penchant for seduction – after all we’ve seen enough chaps do that! And I don’t know if you’ve seen Everything Everywhere All At Once yet, but the fight scenes involving Yeoh – a Chinese granny with world-saving abilities - are balletic and be-fitting of a woman who has been a martial-arts star for thirty years (breaking all taboos by doing her own stunts as a woman right from the start). The movie’s premise – the tricky bond between mothers and daughters and how love gets stretched but ultimately shape-shifts and wins – made me cry…

2 years ago · 36 likes · 15 comments · Eleanor Mills

The Boy Who Bakes

The Boy Who Bakes is a reader-supported publication. To receive bonus posts access to the full recipe archive and to support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Hello to all of you wonderful subscribers. As I have now been publishing some version of this newsletter (both here on Substack and elsewhere cough* patreon cough*) for a while, the arc…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 2 comments · Edd Kimber

How I gained 47 days of free time per year

When I was pregnant with our son, my husband and I decided that for the early years stage, we both wanted to spend a day a week alone with our boy. We’d had a hard road to parenthood and once the little wriggler was safely here, we wanted to be able to spend as much time with him as we could and also ensure that he bonded as equally as possible with us …

2 years ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Sarah Raad

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

The trap of "too much"

For new subscribers, hello! This article is free to read. My new book The Success Myth is publishing in a couple of months so the focus of many upcoming articles are going to be around this theme. If you pre-order a copy before it comes out, you can enter to win a coaching session with me (or coaching package if you’re a…

2 years ago · 99 likes · 45 comments · Emma Gannon

A Muse For Life

In Greek mythology, ‘Muse’ was referred to any of the nine goddesses who ruled over songs, poetry, arts, and sciences. Ancient Greeks looked to them as sources of inspiration. Do you have a muse? Have you been called a muse by someone who believes that you are their creative inspiration. I love the word muse and the meaning of muse. I struggled for a l…

2 years ago · 7 likes · Tanya Lynch

The Process of Illumination

The Part of a Life They Don't See

In the poem "Hummingbirds," Mary Oliver writes of having climbed a tree to discover hummingbirds sitting down on a branch, which points to something I’ve been thinking about: So many portrayals of hummingbirds in photographs and art (including my own) feature hummingbirds in flight. And yet, there’s a whole other part of their lives that is not seen as m…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 3 comments · Morgan Harper Nichols

The Magically Mundane

Simple Things #1

Hi there! How are you? Thank you for being here. I’ve been reveling in writing again, and sharing here on Substack (or directly to your email) has been such a fun experience for me. I’ve likened it to those early days of blogging, where I’d spend hours reading other blogs and writing my own. It was a special time and I love having that feeling again. On…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 8 comments · Hunter Burgtorf

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Emma Gannon’s post was so good!! 👌🏼

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4 replies by Claire Venus (she/her) ✨ and others

Thanks for sharing these! I’m going to dive into each one later on when the kids are at school 🥰

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