Hey there.

Sunday Scaries is your cure for the Sunday blues—the anxiety that sets in on Sunday nights with the impending return to the office, school, or work. It’s like wellness and self-care for those of us who have blurry Friday and Saturday nights. You get it.

About me.

My name is Will deFries and I started Sunday Scaries in 2013 when I didn’t know what to do with my life other than cure my hangovers with romantic comedies.

After two years of working on Sunday Scaries, I took a brief hiatus to pursue some full-time writing in Austin, Texas. Ever since, the brand has amassed over 900k followers on Instagram, 28k subscribers to our newsletter, and millions of podcast downloads. After all, we’re all a lot less anxious when we’re all anxious together.

What you can expect here.

Wanting to get back into writing more, I started this Substack in January 2022. Ever since, we’ve put out several regular columns:

• The Sunday Digest — Our weekly Sunday newsletter that includes a long read of the week, The Sunday Haiku, new podcast episodes, Things I Saved This Week, relaxing videos, curated playlists, and more.

• Sunday Confessions — Where subscribers confess their darkest secrets for all of us to enjoy.

• Postcards — Film photographs from my travels along with itineraries and suggestions.

• Small Bites — Short-form columns ranging from style to wellness to, well, anything.

• Fiction — From the short-lived Fiction Friday to a reprise of my old series Things Girls Do to short stories that I simply can’t get off my mind.

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