1000 Weeks with Val Spiers

Actionable advice to help you improve your life one post at a time.

How to prepare for longevity with an 86-year-old retired psychologist as your guide.

Honest musings on the twists and turns of leaning into creativity and see behind the scenes of my Substack journey. *NEW* Side Quest Queens: A supportive, fun, like-minded community for distractible queens.👑

Monthly salons, journal prompts, messy-middle stories, and life-planning tools for women designing their second coming of age.

A place where imagination wanders and where we follow the pencil line wherever it leads, in celebration of creativity, in reverence for nature, and in search of wonder.

The artist life and business for the dream-driven artists and writers who are fed up with gut-wrenching advice

I usually type about one page a day here on an old manual typewriter.

The online place for small business owners and freelancers who refuse to hustle. Resources, strategies and community to empower and inspire you.

An unfiltered exploration of psychology, culture, and the world through the eyes of an impulsive yet remorseful professor

🧭Sense-making & Emotional Sobriety in an increasingly intoxicated world.

Motivation. Discipline. Community. Dedicated to pushing the needle forward.

Letters from my island home in Shetland: creativity, photography, and slow-ish living with a punk rock heart. Forever obsessed with storytelling and capturing the life's littlest joys in words, photos & art. And dogs. There are also dogs.

This newsletter provides analysis and discussion of how power works in our society, and it shares insights and ideas with anyone interested in something beyond the echo chamber of the mainstream media.