The Phoenix Soul digital magazine
Amanda Fall published 64 issues of The Phoenix Soul digital magazine between 2011-2018. (Originally published under the name Sprout magazine from 2011-2014, then rebranded as The Phoenix Soul in 2015.) Amanda proudly published intimate interviews, gaspworthy poetry, vibrant artwork, evocative essays, soul-stirring creative prompts, thoughtful flash fiction, handwritten love notes, and more, all complemented by mixed media backgrounds. The Phoenix Soul magazine was always reader-supported and ad free. Amanda will forever be grateful to her dedicated staff, brave contributors, and of course beloved readers! Check out all previously published issues here.
After giving birth to her child in 2018 and facing postpartum depression, panic attacks, and anxiety, Amanda needed to “phoenix rebirth” her publishing process to something more sustainable and adapted to her new life. She currently publishes submissions via our free collaborative blog. Amanda also curates community on Patreon (monthly art mail sent to your “real” mailbox, weekly soul prompts, printables for art journaling or collage, and more), and continues to explore her role as creative encourager (including creating online art workshops and guest teaching in classes such as Book of Days).
“While our magazine issues cover timeless thoughts and creative explorations, I’ve grown tremendously since our last magazine publication date. You may encounter language in these issues I’d no longer use, including instances of naive cultural appropriation (such as the use of “tribe” before we switched to Soul Rise Stories). I apologize for this and any other unintentional harm caused by appropriation, ableism, or anything else I now understand better. While there is great good in these magazine pages, there are likely some outdated terms and thoughts. Please take the good and leave the rest behind. Thank you!”
We are grit, grace, and every gasp between.
“The Phoenix Soul is the best thing for my heart and soul. It lets me know I am not alone.”
“I love being part of such a beautiful, raw, open-hearted community!”
“I’m finally sitting down and reading the Rhythm edition of The Phoenix Soul on this quiet Sunday morning as music from the wind chime plays in the background. I stop to sip my cuppa, close my eyes, take a deep breath as the words sink into my exhausted mind. I find tears escaping down my cheeks as I realize that I’m not alone. I’m not the only one whose heart aches and whose body cries for healing. There is so much hope and wisdom and truth and vulnerability in these pages. If you aren’t subscribed . . . may I suggest you wait no longer?”
Every moment is a choice. Every breath is possibility.
How will we live? How will we love?
“The Phoenix Soul is a refuge for so many of us in this crazy world.”
“I’ve sobbed big, fat tears, and held my breath, and hoped anew, and exhaled gratitude.”
“What a heap of healing in those sacred pages.”
the Phoenix Soul is far from just words on a screen--
it's an invitation to love your life now, in all its messy glory.
Hope and healing? They're right here. Right now.
“we gather around each other and pull the quilts close. we become the glimmering candelight for one another, witnessing each other’s lives and reflecting back the truth of it all. we’ll never see it all or understand it all, yet there’s magic happening in the midst. you are known. you are loved. you are seen. you are welcome.”
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