My Crippling Self Doubt

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

The creative life, motherhood, and other stuff.

I share poems & writing prompts

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!

achey poetry, dreamy prose, and an art practice — from my nostalgia to yours.

Just an autistic girl, standing in front of the neurotypical world, asking it to love me.

Essays & Memoir

Every Thursday, an offering: a lyric essay, a poem or a deep dive into an art piece. Each one a question that hovers like bees around the hive of place and rupture. We'll do our best to follow the questions home.

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

This newsletter's title is inspired by the Ram Dass quote that we are all walking each other home, through life. Writing about grief, loss and the glimmers that light the way

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

Vogue featured bartender sharing cocktails and music, helping you connect with the people in your life.

Each month, I share poetry, prose, or a micro-essay that reflects my search for pinpricks of light in an increasingly complex world.

volumes of hauntings, candor, mental illness, and occasional delight in poetry and prose. come as you are.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.