Grown from the pips of a lemon-filled few years, Making Lemonade is for those who want to squeeze the most out of life. Weaving together narrative therapy, wild adventures, and creative community, we dive deep into the stories that shape us - lemons & all
Writer, adventurer, creative mentor, coin-flipper, road-tripper, long-distance caregiver, and chief lemonade maker.
[Breccia: a rock composed of fragments] Newsletter of pieces exploring 'the body geological' by a geologist, psychotherapist and author-artist. Personal essays, creative process, esoteric readings, travel dispatches, and work updates etc.
For high-functioning, self-aware people whose life looks successful but feels off. I write about quiet burnout, life after loss or disruption, and the hidden grief shaping it more than you realise. Plus random fox, cat, sketchbook, ceramics shares etc.
Exploring how health and circumstance impact creativity and all of the resilience and adaptations people can and do make in order to keep on creating in the best way possible!
Weekly essays, interviews, book recs, writing tips, and more from Amsterdam-based writer Alexis Mera Damen.