New On Substack this week
New Essay on The Long Road Home
Some weeks unravel you. Everything breaks at once — the car, your patience, your plans for peace. It’s a story about surrender and timing, about a stranger at a café and the unexpected warmth that can appear in the wake of defeat. Mostly, it’s about learning to trust the mystery again — the one that always seems to find us when we finally stop running from it.
This essay is about one of those weeks, when nothing went right until I stopped trying to make it so. It’s about small mercies that show up disguised as inconvenience, and the quiet, human magic that happens when we make room at the table for the unexpected.
Read it now on The Long Road Home.
Storytelling Tools & Resources
explore Stories of lineage, land & Longing
read
my most popular photo essay
OFF-THE-GRID IN GAVDOS
Meet Yamuna Flaherty
WRITER, MOTHER + STORYKEEPER
Yamuna Flaherty is a writer, mother and storykeeper devoted to helping others uncover and tell the stories that matter most. Rooted in two decades of global travel, inner inquiry, and creative practice, Yamuna weaves memoir, ancestral reflection, and soulful expression into everything she offers—from guided storytelling sessions to thoughtful essays and creative tools. Her work invites others to explore identity, voice, and belonging through the transformative power of personal narrative. Whether through one-on-one sessions, workshops, or her Substack, The Long Road Home, Yamuna creates spaces for meaningful connection and self-authored truth.
