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, a
Bestselling Publication, in the top 40 on the global Parenting leader board.I’m a writer, facilitator and critic for Glasgow Review of Books. In autumn 2022, I ended a three-year psychotherapy journey asking myself, ‘What now?’ and 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 twice monthly Sunday words (and sometimes video conversations) on early-onset perimenopause, 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…
The entire audiobook of my memoir, Held in Mind, including bonus behind-the-scenes bits
Access to every post including comments
Invitations to join us in Chat
The full archive
My Seasonal Journaling Sessions (next Session Thursday February 20th 8-9pm GMT 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 run will kick off on Tuesday March 18th 8-9pm GMT for Monthly, Annual and Founding Members and replays are available.
Founding Members…
My flagship online course, Memoir in a Month runs again in January 2025. Find out more here and sign up to the waitlist here. I’ll be announcing a new course, Life Writing from the Archive for Founding Members in early 2025, so stay tuned for updates.
In the meantime, I’d love to connect with you on Instagram, too:
And here are some of my most popular posts…
Lindsay x
My spouse is sober... I'm not
Held in Mind: An Excerpted Memoir
Can you put a price on creativity? What about community?
It really happened. Really. Really?
It's Time to Lift Your Pen: Announcing my Writing for Better Mental Health short course
I think the best part about this is I'm now going to read everything you write as in your gorgeous accent. And that, dear friend, has no downsides. x
So lovely to hear your voice. ✨💌