Is my substack changing?!?! Short answer... yes.

A bit about where this Substack is going... and why I think you're going to LOVE IT!

There’s a version of me that planned to stay in ONE lane.

She was going to run a clean, focused chronic illness podcast. Every episode would be about autoimmune disease, or CRPS, or endometriosis, or the absolute circus of navigating the American healthcare system with a complicated body. Every guest and solo episode neatly aligned to a chronic illness topic. It was going to be disciplined and deeply tied to the “niche”.

And then I got pregnant.

And before that, I got hospitalized. And before that, I missed a bus in London four times in a row while wearing rain boots on the heaviest walking day of the trip. And somewhere in between all of that, I started writing about protein rice crispy treat recipes, and the weird food dye loophole in American nutrition labeling, and what it actually feels like when your body finally starts cooperating after 25 years of not. Literally NONE of that was in the content plan!!!

But… it’s all the most-loved stuff I’ve written, and it’s what I love writing about.

So here’s what I want to say to you: to the people who have been here since the chronic illness days, the people who found me through a pregnancy short, the people who subscribed because of the hospital stay episode and then stuck around for the recipe post, confused but seemingly okay with it…

This Substack is becoming something a little bigger than a podcast companion newsletter. And I think that’s a good thing.