Why read The Shrieking Cactus?
Written by experienced health journalist and recovering crankypants Joy Victory, The Shrieking Cactus newsletter is for prickly people recovering from trauma and/or a family history of mental illness and substance abuse.
“Your newsletter makes the world a better place.”
— subscriber Anneka F.
What’s included?
Subscribers receive a weekly newsletter with hard-earned lessons on overcoming difficult life challenges, told mostly with non-toxic optimism but also occasional blatant pessimism. Nature is a powerful healer, so she comes up a lot, too.
More about me and my prickly self
Howdy! I’m a writer and longtime health journalist living in Austin, TX with my ever-tolerant husband and brilliant-beyond-her-years daughter.
My memoir, How to Heal Your Cactus, was named a finalist in the both the 2022 and 2023 Writers’ League of Texas manuscript contest.
Life can be exhilarating yet terrifying, like walking barefoot through a field of blooming prickly pear. I’m trying to make sense of the terror while embracing the sublime.
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