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SANCTUARY’S AUGUST COMMUNITY COMPASS: Our popular event-driven issue with community spotlights is here! You’ll find inspiring interviews, recommendations, editors’ reports, Team Talk, Sponsor Corner, and more! Our August issue also includes

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2026 COMMUNITY PROJECT: My Sanctuary

Send us a photo that depicts a space where you find sanctuary. Photo can include you…or not. Find instructions for submission
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#WheresYourSanctuary #empoweringwomen #inspiration

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JULY FEATURE: “Photographer Finds Her Independence and Unique Voice, Then Helps Others Do the Same: An Interview with Karen Ghostlaw”

“I began to focus more on the woman's place in the world. Rarely do you see my face now. I want anybody to be

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SNEAK PEEK RECOMMENDATION: Art Center Boasts Unique Classes and Community Events (Alabama)
Coastal Arts Center of Orange Beach is a surprising find in Southeast Alabama. Adult classes are held in glass blowing, pottery, and other scheduled visual

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BOOK EXCERPT: Find an excerpt from Everwoven (Everwoven Press) by Megan Margherio. In fragmented vignettes, raw inner dialogue, and poetic reflections, Megan invites you into the long, aching aftermath of trauma. Megan doesn't just tell you what

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SHARE HOW YOU’RE FEELING THIS MONDAY: ONE WORD
We love to hear from our community of readers! Find sanctuary
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AUGUST CELEBRATED READER: We are celebrating Nansi L. (a reader from New York) this month. Thanks for your continued support of what we do! We appreciate you. Link in bio. 🔗
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ASK THE AUTHOR: Find “Author Discovers an Open Heart and Full Voice After Years of Navigating Trauma”
Lena Fein answers questions about her memoir Shattering the Mirror which is excerpted in Sanctuary this month. “It was a priceless, healing

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READER PRAISE: We are grateful for our community and so thrilled that you appreciate what we do. Thank you, Cat (a reader from New York), for your kind words about our publication. Find our July issue
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LOYAL SPONSOR: Fine artist Mary Ahern has been sponsoring Sanctuary since 2023. For over 35 years, Mary has cultivated both a garden and an art practice — two passions that have become inseparable. She works primarily in oils, building layers of

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BOOK EXCERPT: Discover an excerpt from Fly, My Darling by Lisa K. Richter, a memoir of love, loss, freedom, and the transformation that begins when a woman asks: What do I really want?

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SANCTUARY MAGAZINE WINS ONLINE AWARD: CorporateLiveWire named Sanctuary “Online Magazine of the Year” in recognition of 10 years of high-quality content supporting women everywhere.

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Send us your poems! We’re accepting submissions for Poetry Corner, especially inspiring, empowering, or women’s issues poetry. Explore past publications in Poetry Corner. Link in bio.

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What happens when experts discuss women embracing gray hair? Join our Oct. 14 panel. Sanctuary Magazine hosts an on-demand screening of Your Roots Are Showing, Sept. 20–Oct. 11. Tickets are on sale now; first 20 receive a HAIRSTORY starter kit.

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For lovers of Picasso and tapestry: “Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries” showcases eight monumental works handwoven with Picasso’s approval by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach between 1955 and 1975.