Sitemap - 2025 - AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
The Ache of Wanting to Keep What We Know We’ll Lose (June Wrap-Up)
Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay: 10-min Guided Prompt + Gentle Reset
Chapter 18: Switch on the Light
Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay: 10-min Guided Prompt + Gentle Reset
Write the Hard Thing (Weekly Substack LIVE)
Silence Was My First Survival Skill
The Quiet Surrender Of Loving What’s Here, Not What’s Missing (May Wrap-Up)
What If the Point Isn’t to Remember It All?
Chapter 13: Running with the Devil
How Do You Celebrate a Mother Who Hurt You?
In the Waiting Place, Where Joy and Grief Sit Side by Side (April Wrap-Up)
Chapter 9: Born Into the Quake
Writing About My Mother in Prison Sent Me into Panic (and What Finally Helped)
Chapter 8: Choking In the Dark
Why Waiting to Be “Ready” Is Keeping You from Writing the Story You Need To Tell
Stop Abandoning Your Writing (And Yourself)
Chapter 6: Black Holes in Memory
The Fear That Shows Up When You’re About to Write the Truth
On fear, surrender, and what still blooms in the dark (March wrap-up)
Chapter 5: The Color of Abandon
What Growing Up in a Meth Lab Taught Me About Writing the Truth
Chapter 4: Three Hundred Houses and Counting
Chapter 3: Infinity Times the Universe
2,000 Miles, One Van, and a Question I Couldn’t Shake
Chapter 1: The Desert Was A State of Mind
Prologue: The Storm at the Door
Terrified? Same. But I’m doing it anyway.
Women’s desire, rage, and making a life out of one’s art (February wrap-up)
After five years of rejections, I’m publishing my memoir
The ripple effect of following desire (January wrap-up)
Am I a bad mother for letting my three-year-old rock out to Nirvana?