Start here! Welcome to What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone
Asking and attempting to answer the various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-therapy, perimenopausal midlife. Glasgow, Scotland.
“There is so much here for smart, creative women from this smart, creative woman, plus I have only just discovered Lindsay reading extracts from her powerful memoir – I am already hooked (and now a complete fan of her work).”
anna wharton, Sunday Times bestseller, The Orwell Prize longlisted writer and writer of The Spectator’s Book of the Year 2023
Hi friends,
Welcome to What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone. I’m a writer, workshop facilitator and reviewer for Glasgow Review of Books. In autumn 2022, I ended a three-year psychotherapy journey asking myself, ‘What now?’ I vowed that I’d replace those thrice-weekly therapeutic hours with something, but wasn’t then sure quite what.
Enter Substack.
Post-therapy, I’m holding the necessary space for myself and others entering midlife while very much still figuring things out.
Free subscribers can look forward to Sunday words (and sometimes video conversations) on mental and physical health in midlife, the reality of living with a caring responsibility and our reading and writing lives as well as occasional invitations to join us in Chat. I tend to show up on Notes most days too, so join the conversation.
Upgrading to my Membership community gives you:
A new audio episode of my memoir, Held in Mind each Wednesday, including bonus behind-the-scenes bits
Access to every post including comments
The full archive
Members-only Friday Chats
My Seasonal Journaling Sessions (next Session Thursday 4th April, 8-9pm BST and open to Monthly, Annual and Founding Members)
My Writing for Better Mental and Physical Health short course, which you can find out more about here. The next four-week course starts on Thursday 9th May 2024 2-3pm BST for Monthly, Annual and Founding Members (open for Annual and Founding Members only from Autumn 2024)
If you’re new here, you might have come over having discovered my memoir, Held in Mind, which launched for Members in November 2023. You can listen here to every episode. This book is currently on submission in the UK and every one of you listening helps to prove that there is an audience ready and waiting for this story. Fingers crossed for me as I leap over this particular hurdle on the journey to print publication. I can’t wait to share more on this very soon.
My flagship online course, Memoir in a Month, launched for Founding Members in March 2024. Join the September 2024 waitlist here:
In the meantime, here are some of my most popular posts. These are free to read and share with your own networks, and it’s one of the best ways for you to support my writing.
Lindsay x
So lovely to hear your voice. ✨💌
This is a lovely idea, Lindsay! So good to see you. 👋🏼