✨ Top 20 Substack Rising Bestseller ✨
Hello & welcome, I’m Layla
I am a writer living on the east coast of Ireland. I created this page to write about how it feels to live on this beautiful, tattered planet right now.
I write from a real, raw, lived place and share words on both big topics like HRT or parenting a teenager or having a hysterectomy, as well on the small glimmers life is made up of.
I also created this Substack as a challenge to myself - Can I really call myself a writer? Am I good enough? Do I belong? What I’ve found here is a welcoming and supportive community that has been transformative for me as a writer and I want to pass that supportive energy on.
And so part of what you will receive here at beauty & bone is words on how it feels to write and create as a busy mother who also has a job. The joys and frustrations of writing around the edges and in the gaps.
Would you like to join a growing community of heart-led, creative women writing and making in the gaps of our busy lives?
What I offer
As a paid subscriber*, for €50 or €6 a month, you receive :
𖥸 Access to my early morning Sitting in the Dark writing sessions
𖥸 A monthly live ideas salon I call Mulch Meetings
𖥸 Access to my seasonal Element Sessions exploring the energetics of each of the five seasons in the Chinese calendar (I’m also a 5 Element Acupuncturist), including some truly inspirational podcast conversations
𖥸 Pop up writing courses ( * launching June 2025!)
𖥸 Private (even more) personal posts I write for my membership community
𖥸 Access to full archive
As a free subscriber you will receive a weekly written Field Note which lands in your inbox every Friday morning.
Here’s what some readers have said about my work:
I adore your writing and perspectives on all things creative, mid life, motherhood and womanhood.
Layla’s writing is raw, vulnerable, and inviting. It feels familiar to roam in the landscape her words conjure up and the more I read, the more at home I feel with myself."
"I absolutely love your energy, Layla, and feel such congruence in our work, words and worlds."
I absolutely love your written offerings- the one thing I consistently read alongside only one or two other writers.
A little more about me ::
I’m fuelled by hot cups of coffee, mucky walks and early mornings to myself.
I live in rural Co. Wicklow, Ireland with my three children & my husband (an ex-rock n’roll musician, turned composer and breath worker). I live on land I fall in love with more each day, edged by a stream and held by ancient oaks and jaunty hazel.
I also work as a Five Element Acupuncturist – you can find out more here.
Here are some of my most popular posts
* I take 4-8 paid weeks off writing the publication each year.
