Reminder: The Brain is a Noodle Submissions Will Be Reviewed on Sundays between noon EST and 3pm EST

Thank you for your patience and support as I try to nurture my mental health

Due to burnout, since September 2022, The Brain is a Noodle is now on a weekly review schedule, meaning that it can be up to 7 days before your pieces are reviewed depending on when you submit them.

Thank you so much for your patience and support as I try to nurture my mental health.

Medium is one of those things that help and also worsen my mental health depending on the frequency, which is why I didn’t choose to close TBIN down altogether. The community on here is amazing and that bit adds to my self-care cup, just getting to connect with wonderful and supportive writers. It was specifically the daily treadmill of a schedule that makes it hard to keep up, because there are days where I leave my home at 6am and return with enough time to eat two bites, shower, make lunch for the next day, and then sleep.

For your piece to appear in the week’s submissions, aim to submit before noon EST (converter here). However, I can also share that I get to the submissions between noon and 3pm so if you get it in on a Sunday morning it ✨ may ✨ sneak right in. On good weeks I sometimes check twice a week so writers don’t have to wait as long, but I didn’t want to set a higher bar than manageable on a weekly basis, because if I’ve learned anything, setting a bar too high and continually trying to meet it is the recipe for burnout.

Thanks for understanding and hope to continue seeing amazing pieces in The Brain is a Noodle!