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Hey there, and welcome to Living Late(ly)!
Living Lately is a newsletter reflecting and exploring the process of building an adored life after death.
And it’s a case study on rebuilding a human, too.
As of May 2024, this newsletter becomes a practice for you and me to show up weekly in some way for ourselves. It’s to intentionally rest, play, explore our creativity, and build a deeper love and trust for ourselves and the choices we make for our lives.
We’re restarting small for now. Let this space feel like home for you; I hope it nourishes you all the way through.
I’m Cierra, the face behind Living Late(ly). Welcome! :)
I was a caregiver for my mom full-time for 8 years until I abruptly wasn’t anymore. My brain did a hard reset and I lost interest in everything. The personal development tools and resources I had spent years learning and implementing escaped me as well. But the only thing I wanted to do–have ever wanted to do–was write.
I wrote while I was losing her.
I wrote immediately after.
I wrote to cope.
I’ve written out my overflowing emotions during breakups.
I’ve written to process all sorts of feelings, both publically and privately.
And in May of 2024, I was given a little reminder of how quickly the flame for this life we get to live can be snuffed. That little flame is now perched under my behind and has inspired me to move past the discomfort of everything not being “perfect enough.”
So together, I want to create. A life, an identity, and a better world starting with us.
Since 2023 I’ve been taking readers with me through my death and grief process, as well as what it’s been like living life for the first time in my 30s. And lovely readers have taken to it quite a bit:
Living Lately is a newsletter reflecting and exploring the process of building an adored life after death.
And it’s a case study on rebuilding a human, too.
As of May 2024, this newsletter becomes a practice for you and me to show up weekly in some way for ourselves. It’s to intentionally rest, play, explore our creativity, and build a deeper love and trust for ourselves and the choices we make for our lives.
We’re restarting small for now. Let this space feel like home for you; I hope it nourishes you all the way through.
I’m Cierra, the face behind Living Late(ly). Welcome! :)
I was a caregiver for my mom full-time for 8 years until I abruptly wasn’t anymore. My brain did a hard reset and I lost interest in everything. The personal development tools and resources I had spent years learning and implementing escaped me as well. But the only thing I wanted to do–have ever wanted to do–was write.
I wrote while I was losing her.
I wrote immediately after.
I wrote to cope.
I’ve written out my overflowing emotions during breakups.
I’ve written to process all sorts of feelings, both publically and privately.
And in May of 2024, I was given a little reminder of how quickly the flame for this life we get to live can be snuffed. That little flame is now perched under my behind and has inspired me to move past the discomfort of everything not being “perfect enough.”
So together, I want to create. A life, an identity, and a better world starting with us.
Past essays and poetry can still offer you…
An exploration of an identity around hair (and the battles with it).
Untangling the History of My Hair
Welcome to Living Lately! A newsletter about a late bloomer processing a death and building a life. I wanted to add this quick introduction because there’s a lot of new readers here thanks to the encouragement I left writers in a post on Notes! Thank you!
What if it never gets better?
Some despair has hit me again; it hits quite often now. Me not knowing what the point of me or anything is… Me thinking I know what I wanna work on, but then feeling SO drained just looking at anything that used to bring me joy or pique my curiosity…
Wonderings about last-ditch efforts to save somebody.
I wonder if Spring could've saved her
Because I wasn’t able to get an essay out on Tuesday, I decided to share this poem I started on during a walk with my dad a couple of weeks ago. Its final form flowed to me a few days later, and after a very small amount of light edits, it’s ready to read. It finished its birth on April 7th.
A shared celebration of turning “one” as a late bloomer who lost her mom.
Today, I Turn One
Welcome to the first personal essay under the Living Late(ly) name! This piece will mention hospitals briefly, and death pretty frequently. I mentioned some findings around feeling relief when grieving, and shared some milestones and perspectives around my first time living in this essay.
Thanks so much for dropping by! I’ll be working on creating pieces I’m proud of and am eager to share with you around multiple topics, but I want them all to feel like a nourishing huddle with a close and dear friend. There’s currently no schedule, but if you’d like any future pieces sent directly to your inbox, feel free to subscribe below and I’ll see you soon. :)