A lived-experience publishing platform
StormIt is a home for real stories, useful essays, and lived-experience guides about the things people carry: motherhood, immigration, illness, housing, work, money, identity, and rebuilding.
For readers, writers, and anyone trying to make sense of a difficult season.
A short stack chosen by the editors and updated as new work arrives.
Pick #1A patient-written, evidence-graded guide to ankylosing spondylitis and axial spondyloarthritis: diagnosis delay, normal X-rays, biologics, diet, movement, flares, sleep, mental health, work, and AS communities.
Mudras are stranger, more varied and less tested than most wellness writing admits. What the tradition teaches, what practitioners report, what research can actually say — and how this series keeps those three apart.
Ouroboros · Stage 3Ancient astronaut claims and the evidence for human builders.
Before Seven · Stage 8The brain does not receive the world raw. It edits. Some of that editing can be protected. Some of it has a clock.
The Kitchen Explained · Stage 1Understanding the food we make, and the people we feed.
A father who actually does something is close to a rounding error among mammals. The exceptions are worth meeting properly, because everything else in this series rests on them.
The StormIt Watchlist · Stage 1Editorial picks. Spoiler-free.
How To · Stage 4A ten-minute bedtime habit that hands the day's unfinished business to the shift that works while you're asleep — and a two-minute morning catch to collect what came back.
Motherhood in Canada · Stage 2Most of what you think you know about adoption is a generation out of date. This guide replaces the myths with the map: three routes, three very different timelines, and one honest question — which family can you actual…
History & MythIn a single year, 1917, the oldest Russia the Eagle had ever known simply ceased to exist. From its opened ribs rose something new and red and sleepless, pledged to burn down everything America was. This is how the olde…
History & MythClairvoyance, subtle bodies, occult chemistry, scandal, and the visual Theosophical universe. Blavatsky gave Theosophy its cosmos. Besant gave it worldly power. Leadbeater gave it pictures — and made unverifiable author…
The Job Hunt Playbook · Stage 1Stop applying at random. Build a focused list of employers tied to your target role, research them properly, build proof that fits, and apply with context instead of hope.
Vancouver Island · Stage 7The honest capstone: what the north actually costs, the three anchors that justify it, Alert Bay and Sointula explained, and the day-count table that decides.
StormIt is for writing that begins with lived experience and becomes useful to someone else. A story, a guide, a lesson, a warning, a map, a question you could not stop carrying.
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