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Chapter 46: Visits from The Settled

The One Who Leaves—the desperation of leaning on strangers

Jan 15 • Jessy Easton

A Year-End Reckoning in Ritual, Memory, and Desire

On December, the quiet choreography of living, and the work of turning grief into magic

Jan 11 • Jessy Easton

What To Do Instead of Reflecting or Planning

A refusal of the year-end checklist and a practice in presence

Dec 31, 2025 • Jessy Easton

How a Year’s End Invites a Different Kind of Writing

On capacity, memory, and learning to write from presence instead of survival

Dec 30, 2025 • Jessy Easton

The Threshold That Leads You Back to Yourself

The Threshold is now open—a 4-week somatic writing cohort for women ready to meet the self who can hold the hard story

Dec 17, 2025 • Jessy Easton

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Prologue: The Storm at the Door

Mar 6, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 1: The Desert Was A State of Mind

Mar 11, 2025 • Jessy Easton

After five years of rejections, I’m publishing my memoir

Feb 13, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 2: The Settled

Mar 13, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Read My Memoir

Chapter 46: Visits from The Settled

The One Who Leaves—the desperation of leaning on strangers

Jan 15 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 45: Arrival

The One Who Leaves—A midnight drive to the ICU after my mother’s heart stopped

Jan 8 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 44: Wake Up

The One Who Leaves—the time when Mom died

Jan 1 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 43: Home

The One Who Leaves—the goodbye I’d rehearsed all my life, and searching for home

Dec 18, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 42: The Accident

The One Who Leaves—when you have to lose everything to save your life

Dec 11, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 41: The Old Place

The One Who Leaves—when I tried to get my father to leave my mother

Dec 4, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 40: Back in the Mojave

The One Who Leaves—when I stopped believing my love could save my mother

Nov 27, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Chapter 39: Demons

The One Who Leaves—Mom confesses to all the ways she thinks she ruined my father

Nov 20, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Write the Hard Thing

How a Year’s End Invites a Different Kind of Writing

On capacity, memory, and learning to write from presence instead of survival

Dec 30, 2025 • Jessy Easton

The Threshold That Leads You Back to Yourself

The Threshold is now open—a 4-week somatic writing cohort for women ready to meet the self who can hold the hard story

Dec 17, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Meeting the Self Who Can Hold the Story You Need To Write

The inner shift required to step into the story that’s been waiting

Dec 13, 2025 • Jessy Easton

A Meth Lab Childhood, a Life of Prison Sentences, and Facing the Past (A Love Story)

From 100 rejections a Substack bestseller

Dec 9, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Notes from After

A Year-End Reckoning in Ritual, Memory, and Desire

On December, the quiet choreography of living, and the work of turning grief into magic

Jan 11 • Jessy Easton

Taking One Small Step Toward the Thing You Love. And Then Another

On November, thresholds, tides, and the soft rewiring of a month made of water

Dec 5, 2025 • Jessy Easton

How Loss and Leaving Make Room for Meaning

On October, Amsterdam, and the Act of Returning

Nov 10, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Portugal, Trust, and the Work of Living Twice

On September, writing vs. living, and the trust that one always feeds the other

Oct 6, 2025 • Jessy Easton

10-Min Writing Prompts

24:22

Write About Endings - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay

10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #19

Nov 11, 2025 • Jessy Easton

27:19

The Story of an Object - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay

10-min guided prompt and gentle reset #18

Nov 10, 2025 • Jessy Easton

22:49

The Room Holds the Story: Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay

10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #17

Nov 3, 2025 • Jessy Easton

26:35

What’s Missing From the Frame - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay

10-min guided prompt and gentle reset #16

Oct 24, 2025 • Jessy Easton

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Meeting the Self Who Can Hold the Story You Need To Write

The inner shift required to step into the story that’s been waiting

Dec 13, 2025 • Jessy Easton

A Meth Lab Childhood, a Life of Prison Sentences, and Facing the Past (A Love Story)

From 100 rejections a Substack bestseller

Dec 9, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Meth labs, home invasions, the Manson cult, and the way love shapes and breaks us

Table of contents for my memoir, The One Who Leaves, that's serialized right here on Substack

Nov 18, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Silence Was My First Survival Skill

I spent my life hiding where I came from. Here’s what happened when I stopped.

Jun 10, 2025 • Jessy Easton

The Shape of Memory

A story about meth, memory, and the moment I realized the life I came from wasn’t okay—published in The Rumpus

May 20, 2025 • Jessy Easton

What Growing Up in a Meth Lab Taught Me About Writing the Truth

Why writing the truth feels so damn hard—and why that’s not your fault.

Mar 25, 2025 • Jessy Easton

Terrified? Same. But I’m doing it anyway.

Meth labs, police raids, and breaking generational cycles—my memoir launches in just 3 days

Mar 3, 2025 • Jessy Easton

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