75 GROW Week 1: Avoiding Crash Outs
how to start small and...no for real please stop making this challenge huge
Bad Art Every Day
Margaret Duncan, MD is a psychiatrist who writes about feelings, bad art, and making things in ordinary life.
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Here We (75)Grow AGAIN
The third official cycle of my gentle behavior change challenge starts again
Summer Muses: Beauty Habits, Screentime Rules, and Media Favorites So Far
Hellllloooo dear readers!
Donna Sheridan Summer: A Character Study
You don't need to go abroad to find adventure and romance this July.
Magnifica Humanitas: Part 1 of Pope Leo XIV's Insights on AI
Part 1: What is the frame of Catholic Social Teaching, what lenses matter, and how do we start to think about them relating to technology in 2026.
Being Nurtured By Nature, Psychodynamically Speaking
Mary Oliver May Vol 3: The habit of relational devotion and how it feeds us.
Five Mindful Money Approaches I Learned and Applied Last Month
tips that worked for me when I committed to applying them and not just saving them to a folder
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."
Mary Oliver May Week One: Combining Whimsy & Reality
Spring Simplifying: 5 Ways to Reduce What Bids for Your Attention
Somethings cannot be helped, but many of the pings and tugs at us can be
How to Work With Me Clinically
On opening my own private practice for women's mental health & how I work
Tending Your Garden, Part 1: 21 Values-Based Ways to Save Your Money, Time, and Mental Capacity
We can't control much, but here are ways to pull our resources back into ourselves and our communities this spring.
Dirt AND Whimsy: Ideas for a Non-Aesthetic-Driven Spring
Journal prompts, activity ideas, and longer resources for having a spring of being wild.
Make Exercise Fun Again: Power, Creativity, and Play
A deep dive and guide on why exercise is not fun for most women and concrete ideas to bring play back into your daily movement routine.
March Magazine: A Collection of Everything I'd Put in a March 2026 Issue of Print Magazines
Collected articles from across the internet, recommendations, and themes I'd put in a women's magazine if I was Miranda Priestly in 2006
March Is A Month of Mindful Emergence
Another round of my way of planting, growing, and tending to habits is here. Here's my hopes and tips learned from prior rounds and my work in behavioral wellbeing
Things I Re-Learned on Vacation
Colors, vitamin D, and life balance lessons from a week in Belize
GTFO Your Phone February Journal Is Now Out
Link to this month's journal and discount code for paid subscribers!
Reducing Overwhelm Through Micro-Feminist Actions
The world is a lot & I work in healthcare. Here are approaches that are big, small, and concrete that I'm trying this month.
Happy Holidays: All 84 of My Substack Essays Are Un-Pay-Walled Until 2026!
In gratitude for your support this year and with Avoidance Advent, and as a point of reflection on the past year writing longform online
Winter Blues & Light Therapy, Explained
How we treat winter mood changes and how to use Light Therapy this winter, featuring my own pick