What Has Always Been True - A New Chapter in My Writing On Substack

Dear friends,

I've been blogging at asoulfullworld.com almost weekly since August of 2021. That’s more than 250 weeks of writing for this forum. In that time, I've also written and published three books. That’s something to celebrate! I can’t even begin to tell you how much I appreciate that some of you have been reading along for the same amount of time! 

Now I feel something shifting in me, a longing for deeper and more soul-searching, essay-style writing, so I've created a Substack space called "What Has Always Been True."

If you don't know about Substack, it's a platform built specifically for writers who want to do their most serious work. Think of it as a magazine that belongs entirely to one writer, with the kind of space that allows for longer, more layered pieces. It’s a very personal space that allows me to write more fully on a variety of topics.

This blog has been a faithful practice, and I'm grateful for every piece I've written here and every reader who's followed along. But some of the writing that's asking to come through me now needs more than a blog post can hold. It wants the form of a personal essay, something slower and more searching, the kind of writing that sits with a question rather than arriving quickly at an answer.

"What Has Always Been True" will be a space for essays on cultural wisdom and life experience. It will touch a variety of spiritual teachings, and I’ll include guest writers that I believe you ‘ll benefit from meeting. I've spent decades at the intersection of the spiritual and the practical, those years of ceremony, counsel and careful listening, and I've arrived at a library of things I believe are simply, stubbornly true. I want to write toward them with more intention than I have before, and I want to share that writing with a wider circle than any one tradition or community.

Free subscribers will receive my public essays as they're published. Those who choose a paid subscription will receive more: recorded meditations, ceremonial outlines, reflection prompts, and longer essays written directly to those who more personally support my work. This is the kind of writing that touches my deepest truths with more vulnerability than I typically bring to a public page. It's the difference between the talk I give from a stage and the conversation I have around a fire.

My Soulfull World blog isn't going away entirely, but my heart is turning toward that other shore. I hope you'll come with me.

You can find "What Has Always Been True" at ahrianaplatten.substack.com. If you’d like to join me there, my first essay is posted – on Gratitude practices that work when the hurt is real. If you are already subscribed here, I’ll automatically subscribe you there.

Again, thank you for all the many ways you have supported me over the past five years.

Big Love,

Ahriana