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Discover how to feel better without leaving your house/life/self entirely in 4 weeks of daily writing prompts, challenges, self-coaching exercises, mini-lessons and more. Free for paid subscribers.
Hi there,
Everyone I talk to right now is hopeful about the spring. The sun has come out, we can see the sky for the first time in months and anywhere with a terrace suddenly feels wildly appealing.
But those same people are also feeling overwhelmed: exhausted by everything they are reading and numb by the uncertainty that has become the default condition of the times we’re living in.
So, how do we square the two, the hope of this new season with the demands of our daily lives?
We could book a holiday (I have spent many a night this week getting lost in Mumsnet threads about the best campsites on the west coast of France — any recommendations, let me know!), or we could find a way to make where we are right now feel better, even feel good again.
Welcome to Your Everyday Retreat
An at-home wellbeing break (without packing a bag or getting stuck in Easter traffic).
You don’t need a plane ticket.
You don’t need to put your life on hold.
You don’t even need a quiet house (though that sounds lovely).
All you need is a handful of moments in your day.
And the willingness to show up — curious, open and ready to explore more of life.
Why now?
This week has marked the beginning of A Year of Living Well-ishly — a new monthly series here on More Good Days.
Each month together we’ll explore a new theme around how to find a new way to well and what it really means to feel better in everyday life right now.
Together, we’ll be learning to ask better questions, trying some things collectively and starting to build a version of wellbeing that feels human, playful and truly helpful — not performative, pressurised or perfect.
And this Everyday Retreat is your gentle entry point into that year. Four weeks of micro-experiments in being more present, connected and well-ish in your everyday life.
What is the Everyday Retreat?
So this is how it will work: A 4-week, self-paced, Substack retreat that you can take from wherever you are — your kitchen, your commute, your car, your life.
You’ll receive:
Daily postcard-size prompts to help you reflect, reconnect, and reorient
Journaling & self-coaching tools to clarify your needs, hopes and habits
Weekly challenges to help you break the same ole routine and feel more engaged again
Mini-adventures + wellbeing activities to gently interrupt your autopilot
Supportive expert guidance in the subscriber chat so you don’t have to do it all alone
Over four weeks, you'll get to reconnect with yourself, connect with others, and disconnect from tech.
You’ll explore emotions like joy, boredom, wonder and overwhelm — and learn how to move through them with more awareness and maybe even a little more curiosity.
By the end, you’ll get an idea of what your own Everyday Retreat needs to be so you can dip into it any time of the year, whether the sun is shining or the news cycle is mind-crashing.
Start your Everyday Retreat if you’re craving…
A simple daily ritual that brings you back to yourself
A break from the burnout — no suitcase required
A reframe on wellbeing that actually fits your life
A soft reset without shame or striving
A way to do something just for you (even if it’s done hiding in the bathroom)
A community of wandering souls longing to connect.
How it works
The Everyday Retreat officially begins on Monday, 7 April. Yes, that’s next week, just in time for those Easter holidays.
This is a little experiment. We usually run this on our course platform, but I’ve been interested in doing something on Substack for a while, so I thought I’d see how this works here.
So, this beta test is open to paid subscribers. You’ll get it for FREE when you join the subscribers group.
Tiny FAQs
Do I have to do it every day?
Nope. The daily format is there to support you, not stress you out even more. Dip in and out as you need.
Is this therapy or coaching?
No, it’s not a replacement for medical or psychological support. But it does include coaching approaches and offers a gentle resource to help you reconnect with your own needs, thoughts and emotions in everyday life.
Can I do this with friends?
Yes! I’d love that. Invite a few people you care about and go through it together — or even just share your favourite days over coffee.
Are there any live meet-ups?
Maybe. If there’s enough interest in this and people for this beta test, I’ll add a weekly live meet-up so we can get to know each other. Probably on Friday lunchtimes: I’ll confirm with you in the private chat when you join.
I’m arriving here after April 7th. What now?
No worries. You can do this anytime. Once you become a paid subscriber, you’ll get access.
You can upgrade now and start here on Day 1.
This is the kind of retreat that fits into your lost-socks-and-toast-on-the-run mornings.
The kind that meets you in the middle of your real, beautiful, too-much life.
The kind that lets you know that you don’t have to disappear from your own life to show up in it again.
When we seek out wellbeing, we often remove ourselves from the world we live in every day. We wait for the moment when we can travel for weekends or reach wellness destinations on the other side of the country.
And yet, these dreams of what it means to prioritise ourselves and our experiences have a place even now, even here.
What if you could create something that focused on everyday journeys, starting where you are?
Finding something that fits within crazy schedules, work pressures, and personal demands — a place of our own making where we could go anytime, even if it’s just a corner of our minds or our bedrooms?
What would your Everyday Retreat look like? The tiny daily practices that could help you build breaks into your day so you don’t forget yourself, even if you’re not in a forest or don’t have great lighting design.
Your Everyday Retreat could even start after a hectic Monday morning, on the gloomiest of days, when you’re late for school and you’re already cursing the week ahead, even then.
Because you made it so… in whatever way you needed to.
Hope to see you there,
x Claire