Amara Charles Deeply Bonded Love

09/05/2026

What if the person you love is still a stranger?
Not because you don’t know them.
Because you do.
You know their stories. Their habits. Their wounds. The way they move through a room.
But somewhere inside all that knowing is a person you cannot quite get hold of.
A person who is still becoming.
I find this both unsettling and strangely beautiful.
I wrote about it this week.
I’m curious what happens in you when you really let that be true.
https://amaracharles.substack.com/p/the-person-you-love-is-a-stranger?r=ejp0r

09/02/2026

What happens when you know someone so well… you stop seeing them?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

The Person You Love Is a Stranger.

New essay.

Come sit closer Rapture

We have this peculiar habit in long love of not seeing.

08/23/2026

Come on over and relax, and expand for a few minutes. And if it feels right, and you'd like to support my writing, please comment, and subscribe on Substack. (link is in the comments) Thank you so much.

08/17/2026

a few moments of tenderness anyone?

I’m talking about the kind of tenderness that shifts anything that's been static too long.

08/05/2026

I'm doing something a little different... I'm opening up my Elemental Body Prayer practice on Zoom next Monday (Aug 12, 7pm MT).

It's a guided meditation that works with the body and the elements - deeply grounding and restorative.
FREE. Open to all. No experience needed.

If you've been feeling a little disconnected or exhausted or you just want to conect, come and rest in awareness for about 40 min.

Comment "LINK" or DM me and I'll send you the Zoom details 💫

08/04/2026

This is where I'm pondering lately on beauty, and other things I love. Come sit closer:

07/31/2026

come sit closer:

07/26/2026

I wonder how many of us have mistaken someone for oxygen.

Not because we loved them too much.

But because, somewhere along the way, we forgot we knew how to breathe.

I wrote about the wanting that embarrasses us.

Link in the comments.

07/20/2026

Have you ever wanted something so badly the wanting stopped feeling like aliveness and started feeling like lack?

Like the desire itself was pushing the thing further away?

I've been learning the difference between longing that opens you and longing that consumes you.

07/18/2026

New piece on longing—what it means to want without grasping for fire. 🔥