From The Fables

Timeless Stories. Modern Life.

Life doesn't always unfold the way we expected. Bodies change, energy becomes less predictable, relationships shift, and familiar roles no longer fit quite the way they used to. At From The Fables, we explore these changes with practical guidance, clear science, a little humor, and the wisdom of old stories. Because understanding what's happening is one thing. Figuring out how to live well with it is another.

Read The Blog

Get Your Freebie

Best I Can Do Is a Mustache

Because menopause didn't come with an instruction manual, but it certainly brought a few surprises. 

Hot flashes, brain fog, rogue chin hairs, and a body that apparently held a committee meeting without inviting you.

Skip the solemn lectures about embracing your inner goddess.
Best I Can Do Is a Mustache is a FREE, 40-page illustrated menopause survival guide filled with familiar indignities, practical observations,
and enough humor to remind you that sometimes laughter
is the most satisfying response.

GET YOUR FREE COPY

Start With What's Changing

Pen-and-ink watercolor illustration of an older woman with wavy gray hair wearing a sage-green cable-knit cardigan, sitting on a sofa and looking sadly at her smartphone. The Pinterest pin reads “Please Invite Me Even If I Usually Say No” and offers practical guidance for staying connected when energy changes.

Please Invite Me Even If I Usually Say No

When you can’t always accept invitations, friends may stop asking. But a changing life doesn’t mean you’ve stopped wanting to belong. The photographs appear on Facebook the following morning. Six familiar faces around a restaurant table, somebody laughing with her...

Read More
Watercolor and ink illustration of Meera, an older South Asian woman with silver-streaked hair, dancing playfully and barefoot in her living room. She wears a sage-green wrap over a dark blouse, with one arm raised enthusiastically. The Pinterest headline reads “5 Delightfully Odd Words Worth Knowing,” with the subheadline “Including a word for dancing badly!”

Some Words Are Too Wonderful to Leave Unused

At some point, everyday conversation begins to sound like a meeting of the household maintenance committee. We discuss appointments, groceries, passwords, bills, and whether the washing machine is making that noise again. Useful subjects, certainly, but hardly cause to reach...

Read More

Why Old Stories Still Help

When life changes, it can be hard to see clearly from inside it. Old stories give us a little distance. They have been watching people wrestle with pride, grief, exhaustion, fear, stubbornness, belonging, and change for centuries. At From The Fables, the story helps us recognize the problem, science helps us understand it, and practical guidance helps us decide what to do next.

The Woman Behind the Stories

I’m Lucy, the writer behind From The Fables. I know what it is to have a life change shape through illness, grief, aging, and circumstances I did not choose. I created this place for women trying to understand what has changed, adapt without disappearing, and build a meaningful life with the capacity they have now. We use clear science, practical help, and old stories—because human beings have been figuring this out for a very long time.

Meet The Storyteller

Your Life Changed.

You're Still Here.

Find practical help for changing energy, changing bodies, grief, overwhelm, identity and the work of building a life that still feels like yours.

Read the Blog
Shop
Scroll to Top