Substacks recommended by Sudha Nandagopal

Recommended by Sudha Nandagopal

REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang

Step into a sanctuary curated by Esmé, featuring guest contributors like R.F. Kuang & Jenny Odell. Each edition presents essays & prompts exploring the beauty/complexity of being alive. Unlock 2 monthly essays & bonus resources with a paid subscription.

Arts and Climate Change with Nicole Kelner

A space for art, climate storytelling, and creative reflection. Discover practical tools and curated events to use art for climate communication, take meaningful action, and live a more creative life.

HEATED

By Emily Atkin

A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.

Journal Your Path

By Jennifer Zarin

Journaling prompts, personal essays, musings on creativity, identity, grief and life from a heart-centered Expressive Writing Facilitator, Writer, Creative Arts Therapist and Singer based in New York City. COMMUNITY, Connection, authenticity, empathy.

The Webs We Weave

By Michelle LaCroix

Essays for meaning makers. Weaving lived experience with fascinations and sharp-toothed questions, as I tangle with what kind of woman I want to be.

I love Michelle's essays

- Sudha Nandagopal

Your Integrative Physician | Tanmeet Sethi, MD

By Tanmeet Sethi

Board-certified physician with 27+ years in the trenches of medicine and life, connecting the dots between hormonal, metabolic and mental health. Real medicine. No toxic positivity or 47-step morning routines.

Beautiful writing about joy and the healing role it plays in our lives - and tangible actions to go along.

- Sudha Nandagopal

Shade Cactus

By Jordan Shea Page

"F*cking delightful." For fellow walking contradictions earnestly exploring everything interesting and aesthetic about life — the travel adventurers and cozy homebodies.

Jordan writes with humor and joy!

- Sudha Nandagopal

Walking Each Other Home

By Nicole Peattie

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 broken tulip by Maaike

By Maaike VanderMeer

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.

Lyrical essays. Beautiful Words.

- Sudha Nandagopal

The Creative Majority

By Jesi Vega

The Creative Majority provides guidance, book reviews, and profiles of inspiring Global Majority creators.

Black Sheep Chronicles

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