The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

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July 2026

I'm doing a Substack Live, TODAY at 2 pm ET, with Sarah Fay! Open to all.
Are you a "Substack Writer at Work"? This one's for you.
 • Susan Cain
How to handle anticipatory anxiety and anticipatory grief
And why it actually serves a purpose
 • Susan Cain
Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? Our next Candlelight Chat tomorrow (Sunday) is for you.
Plus - "The Peace of Wild Things", by Wendell Berry
 • Susan Cain
Going Home: The Deeper Meaning of "The Odyssey"
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey
 • Susan Cain
We keep mistaking visibility for depth
Abraham Maslow showed the difference 60 years ago. We didn't listen to him.
 • Susan Cain
The magic of Candlelight Chats - and our next one is coming up!
"In these Candlelight Chats, something always hits me so deeply that I feel it practically in every bone in my body."
 • Susan Cain
I am aware of how little I know
“We can choose to dispose our attention in a certain way, and depending on how we dispose it, we find a different world.” — Iain McGilchrist
 • Susan Cain
Why Anxiety Feels So Convincing
And how your emotional brain plays tricks that you can learn to outwit
 • Susan Cain

June 2026

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