Skip to content
HeyJared

Beautiful Anyway

Musings on the messy work of being human and the courage it takes to come home to yourself.

Newsletter · By Sam DeCosmo · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
10
Latest publication
Sep 21, 2026
Audience
Checking…
Earliest in this view
Jul 8, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    He Didn’t Fall in Love With the Sick Girl (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1160" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UvJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9705f618-dafe-46a8-bc65-380ff97389ad_1179x1160.

  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    The Loneliness Nobody Can Love You Out Of (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="woman sitting on grass field watching sunset" class="sizing-normal" height="3888" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1494342645198-ff89d7c12b8d?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw2N3x8

  3. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    The Things I Would’ve Missed (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    Content warning: This essay discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. Please take care of yourself while reading.September is National Suicide Prevention Month and this week in particular is Suicide Prevention Week. This is something that is very near to my heart because of the way my life has been touched by suicide. Beautiful Anyway is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="s

  4. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    Guest Post: How I Made a Beautiful Life While Mostly Lying Down (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

    Read excerpt

    Hi, friends. I have a guest post for you today that I’m pretty excited to share. Over the course of the past year or so of being on Substack, I’ve found some writers whose words I just adore. Moss and Matchsticks is one of them. So I asked if she would be interested in writing a guest post for Beautiful Anyway. This post is one I think you’re really going to want to read. Especially if you’re chronically ill or disabled, healing from grief and loss, or just a human dealing with all the hard stuf

  5. Issue · Aug 18, 2026

    For Honey (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1314" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i0UB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F795a3f04-ac95-46ec-a3fd-4217efcb771f_1197x1314.p

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

No verified audience measurement yet.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Beautiful Anyway