Substacks recommended by Heidi Schauster

Recommended by Heidi Schauster

A bespoke space to help you stay creative on Substack! 🧚‍♂️ Twice monthly space holding (co-working, workshops, teaching). Weekly posts, chats, a podcast and ALL the tools to help enhance your journey to growth on Substack in a joyful sustainable way!

Bliss and Burnt Toast

By Adrienne Helene

My life goal is to stop fucking with what the universe has planned for me. I write to breathe.

Parenting Without Diet Culture

By Oona Hanson

A newsletter from Oona Hanson — for parents and guardians who want their kids to have a healthy relationship with food and their body

Rethinking Wellness

By Christy Harrison

Critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, and reflections on how to find true well-being.

Always stellar reporting and commentary about the "wellness" backed by capitalism versus the real science.

- Heidi Schauster

Substack Writers at Work

By Sarah Fay

The only expert guide to Substack—where you grow your Substack, earn an income, and produce your best work ✦ Home of the 2024 Substack Growth Cohort

If you are new to Substack (like me) and have questions, this is the place to be!

- Heidi Schauster

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

This is heart work

More to Hate

By Kate Manne

Fatphobia, misogyny, and more

Creatively Conscious by Claire Venus

Your Creativity loves Courage! Home to monthly 'Self Seed your Business' sessions and challenges. 🌱 👩🏽‍💻 Updates from a slow-lived life on the Northumberland Coast, thoughtful tools to help enhance your creativity and wellbeing.

Weight and Healthcare

By Ragen Chastain

Examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare practices and public health for higher weight people.

Excellent reporting to take back to your practitioners' offices right away.

- Heidi Schauster

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Is My Kid the Asshole?

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

I bring science and nuance to parenting advice and challenge fear-mongering, shame-inducing content.

The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

A critical review of beauty culture from “the woman the beauty industry fears” (the Sunday Herald).

Top-notch writing and reporting on the bullshit of the beauty industry. One of my favorite people on Substack. Thank you, Jessica!

- Heidi Schauster

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

Important, humorous, vulnerable, and thorough. A must-read for all parents wanting to raise inclusive kids.

- Heidi Schauster