Copper and Cardamom | Amy Doerwang | Substack

Copper and Cardamom

The healing power of organic authenticity.

By Amy Doerwang

· Launched 2 years ago

A Circuitous Beast

On trains, treatment, and the people we remain

Jun 11 • Amy Doerwang

The Fingerprint of Construction

Standing between who I was and who I’m becoming

Mar 14 • Amy Doerwang

Not One Drop of This Is Right

A man on a street corner, a passing horn, and the quiet way strangers sometimes hold each other up.

Mar 9 • Amy Doerwang

The Pressure of Needing Sleep

The biology of burnout and the art of letting go

Feb 25 • Amy Doerwang

Winter Inside the Nervous System

How depression rewrites reality — and how connection interrupts it

Feb 17 • Amy Doerwang

Traditions and a New Trajectory

On ambivalence, center, and what I’m learning to carry into the year ahead.

Jan 1 • Amy Doerwang

So That Was Christmas. What Did I Do?

(*A whole Lot of Nothing)

Dec 26, 2025 • Amy Doerwang

Where the Cut Meets the Cure

When healing hurts more than the wound itself

Dec 8, 2025 • Amy Doerwang