Esther Perel's newsletter shares anonymized excerpts from her relationship counselling calls and essays on desire, intimacy and connection. Readers get expert, psychotherapy-informed reflections on fantasy, sexuality and emotional safety, plus announcements of her podcast and tour.

Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.

Heather Havrilesky answers reader letters about family, friendship, guilt and ambivalence, mixing personal essay with advice. Paid subscribers get one or two long-form columns per week, each opening with a work of art.

A personal essay newsletter on resilience, grief, and the hidden costs of difficult relationships, written in first person with reflective, literary prose. Each issue explores an intimate experience of loss, fear, or support and draws general lessons about coping and care.