Heartbeats
by Mariah Friendin ⛪ Faith & Spirituality
Heartbeats
About the Substack
Heartbeats is for women done taking up less space — reclaiming our creative life from the systems that profit off our art and care while telling us we're not enough.
Free Subscription Benefits
- Essays that reframe personal failure as systemic — on writing, motherhood, and the courage to keep going. 🌻
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Writing Odessa: early chapters, research notes, and updates from building an author career 📖
- Paid writers' chat: craft questions, indie publishing deep-dives, and community 💬
- Member discounts on workshops, books, & Pocket Lamp Press releases 🕯️
Paid Subscription Plans
- $10 a month
- $75 a year
About Mariah Friend
Former ICU nurse. Author of The Pattern Shop, a book I almost didn't finish. Writing from the trenches of motherhood and building a creative life, reframing the systems that tell us we're not enough. 🦋
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