Introducing: Home + the World.

Home + The World is a new occasional newsletter from Jodi Rhoden featuring personal essay, recipes, links and recommendations about finding home: within ourselves and in the world around us. Home + the World explores the ways we become exiled: through trauma, addiction, oppression, grief, loss, and family estrangement; and the ways we create belonging: through food and cooking, through community care and recovery and harm reduction, through therapy and witchcraft and making art and telling stories and taking pictures and houseplants and unconditional love and nervous system co-regulation and cake. I’ve included a paid subscription option, but for now, there will be no paywalled content. The paid subscription option is a tip jar. You’re receiving this because you subscribed here on Substack, or opted in to my old Mailchimp newsletter in the beforetimes. Please feel free to unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter; and please share with others if you think they will enjoy it. Thank you for being here and thank you for being you.

About Jodi Rhoden

I’m a writer and social worker specializing in attachment, addiction, and trauma recovery. I’ve had a meandering work-life rooted in activism and social entrepreneurship, baking, Southern foodways, community gardening, kitchen witchery, tarot counseling, business coaching, teaching, and writing. In the beforetimes, (before COVID, sobriety, estrangement, grad school, etc) I lived in Asheville, NC, where I started a dreamboat of a cake shop called Short Street Cakes and blogged about it and wrote a book about Cake Ladies that was a love song to the whole endeavor. These days, I work as a therapist with women with opioid use disorder, and live happily ever after with my husband, Duncan, our son, Jasper, and our many animals and plants in the big gritty city of Philadelphia, PA.