Substacks recommended by Kim Druker Stockwell

Recommended by Kim Druker Stockwell

A health and wellness lifestyle workshop :)

Camille is a wonderful writer. She tells her story as a recent college grad making her way into adulthood. Her reflections are funny, poignant and good reading for anyone who has a kid in their early 20s!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Musings of a Crone

By Donna Druchunas

I’m here for the warrior women, the wise old crones, the powerful witches, the ones who won’t go back. I’m here to imagine a better future so we can build it together.

I love Donna's art and her bold weirdness at times.

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Cartoons Hate Her

Social dynamics and culture from the hybrid mind of a terminally online-normie mom

Belle Curve Stories

By Editor

Belle Curve Stories is a newsletter celebrating women who are navigating life with grit, grace, and growth. Read Belle Curve Stories and see what’s possible!

You will never read a bummer post from Belle Curve. I stand united with BC in posting positive, motivating content for midlife women. ❤️

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Heathering the storm

By Heathering: the art of blooming in midlife

The art of blooming in midlife. Sometimes screaming. Always with lip gloss.

What can't Heather do? She is expert in what we all need in midlife: advice!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Lit*er*al*ly, Ororo

By Ororo Munroe

Words are my LURVE language. So, I'm sharing them with you. Lit*er*al*ly.

An honest reflection on her complicated life told with warmth and humor. I enjoy the 3000 questions journal she answers. It's a cool idea and the illustrations are aces!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Zibby's Highlights

By Zibby Owens

I tell it like it is, sharing my innermost thoughts on books and life to help you live yours. I host the award-winning daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby, founded a publishing house, own an indie bookstore, produce events, and have written 6 books.

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

A wonderful writer and advocate. On my blog she has written: "Decades of chronic illness taught me not to sweat the big stuff. Not to chase closure. To live the questions, and let that be enough." Get ready for Kimberly's memoire:)

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Call for Heroines

By Hey Heroine (It's LM)

Monthly salons, journal prompts, messy-middle stories, and life-planning tools for women designing their second coming of age.

A weekly Journal Prompt to get you unstuck, and who doesn't need that??

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Good Humor

Humor essays, interviews with Funny AF Women and comedy videos from an empty nester mom still waiting for her kids to text her back.

I love CK, her humor and point of view. Funny AF women are what I live for and she once acted in a movie called "frankenhooker." What more can anyone want?

- Kim Druker Stockwell

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

THE EMPRESS

By The Empress

Dedicated to the art and science of midlife women thriving, THE EMPRESS brings content, community, and agency to millions of menopausal women through our networks of networks and deep partnerships with cultural changemakers.

The title says a lot. Make way for the Empress! I knew I needed this newsletter in my life when I read this in the "About" section, "a newsletter to make midlife and peri/menopause less sucky..." Yes, please!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Womancake Magazine

By Alicia Dara

Slices of wisdom by women age 40+. Wildly inspiring interviews, personal essays, fiction, podcast episodes, poetry and visual art delivered right to your inbox.

Beautiful, Daring, Stupid

By Meg Oolders

A mercurial space for fiction and honesty.

The Publishing Spectrum

By Amanda B. Hinton

Guidance for writers and creative entrepreneurs who want to publish their work from creative truth — not reactive strategy. Get data-informed insights, creative tools and deeply human publishing mentorship.

Amanda is good at what she does and who doesn't need some help navigating the Substacksphere?

- Kim Druker Stockwell

The Culture Shock

By Kathleen Sykes

Obsessively interested in everything.

As a person who has trouble focussing on much for long, The Charrette has numerous goodies and treats amongst the well researched and written articles that keep my attention. I'm a fan!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Shenanigans and Stuff

By Katy Wheatley

Things I think about and have nowhere else to put

Katy is a warm, patient soul whom I have had the pleasure of having my cards read by. She is also a funny writer whose posts give me a break from reality and transports me to her new abode across the sea.

- Kim Druker Stockwell

The Long Middle

By Lisa Renee

Letters about life in the middle.

Happy on Purpose

By Amelia Wilson

Clever ideas and wise advice for women in pursuit of a joyful life!

The Midst

Welcome to our community of women in the messy middle of life pivots, career and relationship upgrades, perimenopause, and more. Join the Founding MidstHer community of 35+ women supporting entrepreneurial women.

I love this site. It’s FULL of information and so beautifully produced. This site honors female midlife, supports the struggle and celebrates the wins. Thank you Amy for spearheading The Midst!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Company on Sundays

By Skye Manson

A cosy recommendations based memo from the Manson Podcasting Network to be read while lazing around on a Sunday, pref with a cup of something lovely in your hands.

like a cozy blanket of mellow information to gently stimulate your brain. Lovely ideas to look, read and listen.

- Kim Druker Stockwell

gotham girl

By Alisa Kennedy Jones

gotham girl is a reader-supported newsletter for inquisitive readers from bestselling author Alisa Kennedy Jones. "One of America’s funniest, most singular voices on Substack" — The New York Times

Alisa uses words that I relate to and cherish like "fuck" "doofus" and "dingus." I respect her judgement, experience and unique way of filtering today's latest stuff into a funny, interesting blog. Three thumbs up!

- Kim Druker Stockwell

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Constantly Curating

By Jeanne Blasberg

Where Life is an Act of Revision

I adore her books and even more, interviewing the author, Jeanne Blasberg! She always has something new going on from farming to writing and who knows what may come next? I think it will be her next book:)

- Kim Druker Stockwell

After The Pause Newsletter

By thePause Newsletter

An inclusive newsletter sharing, dishing and contemplating the evolving world of women's health and healthy aging, especially after menopause. We might not have all the answers, but we try to figure it out!

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.