Rosa Halden
Founding editor
Started the folder that became Still Field. Writes on rest, attention, and the guilt that circles both. Keeps the sentences short.
About the journal
A small desk, a long attention span.
Still Field is made by a handful of people who believe wellbeing writing can be honest, calm, and free of shame.
How it started
Notes that outgrew a shared folder.
In 2018 two of us were swapping links about sleep, anxiety, and the strange guilt that surrounds rest. Everything we found seemed to be selling something or scolding us gently. So we began writing the pieces we actually wanted to read: unhurried, specific, and kind. Friends started forwarding them, then strangers did, and Still Field grew from a folder into a small publication.
We have kept it deliberately quiet. No trackers chasing you around the web, no urgency, no ten-point morning routines. Just careful writing about the ordinary business of staying well, published only when a piece is genuinely ready.
What we hold to
Three promises behind every piece.
Honest, never glossy
We write what is true and useful, even when it is undramatic. No miracle cures, no before-and-afters, no quiet contempt for the reader.
Calm over urgent
Nothing here is designed to make you anxious enough to act. We would rather you read slowly, close the tab, and feel a little steadier.
Access included
Wellbeing is not only breath and rest. It is also the practical, the entitlements and paperwork, written so the hard parts feel lighter.
The desk
A small team, on purpose.
Tomas Arvidsson
Writer & breath
A former respiratory physiotherapist who turned to writing. Handles the pieces on breath and the nervous system, without the mysticism.
Nadia Efron
Access & research
Reads the fine print so you do not have to. Covers entitlements, accommodations, and the paperwork side of everyday wellbeing.
We are not trying to fix you. We are trying to keep you good company.The Still Field promise
Come read with us.
Start with the practice, or write to the desk with a topic you wish someone would cover calmly.
See the practice