updates for this part of the internet 🖤
on life changes, existing and creating online, and some changes around here
a bit of a personal update for my favourite people
(that’s you, reader, duh)
besties i gotta say, writing for my little corner of the internet is one of my favourite things to do. i love hearing from my people, who tell me they read my words and feel seen. or they read my words and see themselves in it, however that looks for them.
when i first started writing privately, for myself, it was the most healing thing i could ever do. i wrote poetry. i wrote essays. i wrote venty-little-journal-sentences that i could read now and still feel the punch of. i healed myself through writing, through creating in this way. i continue to heal through writing, through creating, and through allowing myself to see myself in this way. it’s my favourite practice of coming home.
when i first started writing publicly, i did it because i felt like a lot of what i had seen, felt, and heard, wasn’t being talked about enough. culty-hype-churches weren’t talked about enough in Australia. and the experiences i’d felt and seen weren’t discussed on public forums. or at least, not on the kinds i could find. people kept it to themselves, went through it by themselves, and struggled alone.
since i started sharing on medium (and then substack as soon as i discovered it!) i’ve changed place three times, exited a relationship, thrown myself fully into finding who i am, rediscovered my sexuality (hellooooo bi-energy), started a wholesome AF relationship, drawn boundaries around my time and energy, quit a job that burnt me out, got an official adhd diagnosis, continued to medicate for my anxiety, got a new job with beautiful humans that i really love, restarted my creative business, and all the while, continued writing.
it makes sense that the words i write shift with me.
a newsletter update, aka what you can expect around here
(i love you and i’m not going anywhere, promise)
i desire to write more broadly about how we come home to ourselves. not just about deconstructing in itself. but about the ways our religion, our society, our political views, and even our own self-talk separates us from our sense of self. and how we can come back to ourself. even if we have to do it everyday. especially if we have to do it everyday.
so i’ll still have my usual content around here. but, consider it — broadened.
i’ve simplified the Coming Home newsletter look. because the pink and orange was fun for a while, but i know there’s more here. i want to tell your stories and mine. i want to see how we can collectively come home to ourselves.
i want curiosity
i want creativity
and i want my ex-culty friends to know there’s so much more ahead. there’s so much more within. there’s so much more around us then we had been taught.
so that’s where we’re going, here. Coming Home is for the curious, the creative, and the ex-culty. Fun, huh? 😍
the structure moving forward…
free subscribers will still get the weekly newsletter — this is going to be sent out a little more regularly (sorry bb’s, it’s been a time) on either a Monday or a Friday each week. she’ll include love notes, and shorter form content similar to what you’ve been reading so far
this is the exciting part…
my memoir excerpts, aka the juicy shit where i spill my guts and the tea, is moving to paid subs only. i want to give some extra value to the people who are choosing to support this space, and this feels like the best way to do so. these excerpts will be fortnightly additional posts
my paid subs will also get a monthly journal guide that i am working through. because journalling was so central (and still is!) to my healing process, to my coming home, i want to add value with prompts, questions, and ideas to help you dig deeper. you can take it or leave it, but your feedback is always a delight as well. i want to be here for you, remember.
i’ll also be archiving the old memoir goodies on here — so they’ll be available to paid subs only in the next few weeks. no biggie though, you guys love me and have totally read them all by now, right? 😉
i’m still working out how to add more value to this space for all my people — free and paid subscribers.
if you have any thoughts or ideas, please — reply to this email or leave a comment. your feedback, your words, are everything ✨
i couldn't do this without you.
that’s all from me, for now. i’ll be writing again soon with your new look newsletter, and paid subs, you can keep an eye out for my next memoir excerpt dropping in 7-days.
all my love, always
Jasmine