Like a Normal Person

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

A written newsletter for limerence sufferers and deep thinkers to feel less alone, gain insight, and create community around how to relate to their experience of limerence.

Love, loss, and other emergencies. A Substack Featured Publication 2025.

Rebuilding a life and a writing practice after leaving academe.

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Funny, deep, relatable stories from a dad to two, husband to one, friend to all (free for all) + BATCAVE (workshops, cowriting, "community") for paid subscribers.

A place to practice living into our days by slowing down, exploring sobriety, and tapping into our collective creativity and curiosity.

Sexual, elegant, stimulating. Erotic notes, scenes, and poetry for a mature, discerning audience.

Dispatches from one woman's life as a Western Muslim told through the lens of mental health, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

A community for writers at every stage of their journey

Welcome to your new favorite self-healing space. Pick up your pen, take a deep breath, & I'll show you how you can write through anything.

Where real Substack growth happens—with leading Substack Strategist Sarah Fay and the Substack DNA Growth Framework™️

Wild at heart, weird on top, and publicly learning to love myself. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, communal living, addiction, making art, & navigating the digital Anthropocene. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Making is a way of knowing.

KiKi Walter offers compelling memoirs, essays, and insights into writing, sobriety, and life.

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Limp stabs at humour on drugs, filth, travel, science, anything & everything. Thoughts and stories from a life lived shame-free.

Here you will find reflections, musings, the unfurling of thoughts from inside my head. You are my witnesses as I resolve to live a bigger life after cancer number two woke me up to that small inner voice. This is where I let her speak.

Feeding your hunger for a more beautiful, more nourishing life. Heart-sourced guidance on body-mind-spirit wellness from a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

I write about whatever I'm passionate about at any given time. Sometimes I'm funny. Sometimes I'm sad. I dare you to figure me out. I've had no luck. Meh, good enough.

Beautiful poetry with curated prompts, delivered to your inbox every Monday.

Welcome! We created this space as an extension of Sober App—a free app to help you discover freedom through sober living. Join our engaged and growing community—one in which everyone shares a common goal of of staying sober, one day at a time.

Personal, relatable, and sometimes insightful essays on a variety of topics that make life meaningful.

Sober Banter, a podcast that seamlessly blends comedy and recovery, presents real stories, candid questions, and unfiltered laughter.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" ~Anais Nin

Stories about storytelling, a celebration of reading and writing