Little Alchemies has moved.
The newsletter you are subscribed to is migrating from Substack to a new home: a self-hosted archive and publication on my own website, with emails delivered directly to your inbox through a platform I actually have full ownership over.
The new address is cheniece.com/newsletter.
Everything is already set up there for you… The archive of past letters. The new letters as they come. A resource vault that is growing slowly and with intention. And a space that finally feels like what I always wanted Little Alchemies to feel like: a curated living room with closed doors you open by intentional choice, rather than a performance on a busy stage.
Here is what changes for you, and what doesn’t:
What stays exactly the same: you will still receive my letters directly in your inbox, just as you always have. Nothing about how you read them changes. The voice is the same. The honesty is the same. The bi-weekly~ish rhythm (bending to real life rather than a content calendar) is the same.
What is different: the letters no longer live on a platform that has its own agenda, its own metrics, its own quiet pressure to perform growth and accumulate followers and optimize myself into a version that fits someone else’s model of what a successful publication looks like. They live on my (gorgeous) site now. In a space I built and own and tend the way I want to tend it.
What’s new and worth knowing about:
✦ The archive is on my website: Every past letter, searchable and organized, available to you anytime at cheniece.com/newsletter-archive. No account required. No paywall. Just the letters, all in one place.
✦ The Resource Vault is growing: Subscribers-Only reflection guides, grounding practices, and downloadable soul work tools are being added slowly and with intention. Everything in it is free for my email community.
✦ The community space is moving too: Details on where our private community will live going forward are in the welcome email waiting for you at the new address. It’s more intimate than what Substack offered. I think you’re going to prefer it.
✦ The microcast is partially relocated: Your access links and setup instructions are provided on my Podcast page.
You don’t need to do anything to stay subscribed.
Your email address is coming with me. You will continue to receive letters without interruption. If at any point you’d like to update your preferences or unsubscribe, the link to do that is at the bottom of every email, as always.
I want to tell you why this actually matters to me, beyond the practical logistics.
My goal has always been for this publication to have weight to it. To be somewhere you actually enjoy visiting, not because there are metrics rewarding your engagement, but because something here meets you in your real life and gives you something true to carry into the rest of your day.
That goal does not change with the platform. It just finally has a home that fits it.
I’m done optimizing my humanity for an audience. I’m done packaging my healing for a dashboard. I’m done performing presence on platforms that were built for a kind of ambition I have never actually wanted.
What I want is this: a slow, honest, carefully tended corner of the internet that feels like it belongs to real people living real lives. A room with weight to it. A door that opens by choice, not algorithm.
That is what I built. And it is yours, as it has always been.
Come visit when you’re ready.
The new archive is live. The new letters are coming. And the door, as always, remains open.
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