Kelsey Decker
@thekelseydecker · Exit Costs: Coercive Harm, Healing, and Reclamation · Substack profile · Education
Kelsey Decker has 1,733 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 22 publications recommend them, 4 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 11.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 1,733
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 1.2K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 22
- +4 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 11
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1,733 | 1.2K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
22 publications recommend Kelsey Decker; 4 started in the last 30 days. Kelsey Decker recommends 11, and 8 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 5 |
Recommended by
- Black Swans Undercoverstarted Oct 30, 2026new
- Sprouting Joystarted Oct 19, 2026new
- The Honest Faith Projectstarted Oct 14, 2026 · mutualnew
- Elena - The Tactical Profilerstarted Oct 10, 2026new
- Quinn Ashworthstarted Oct 3, 2026
- Insights on Abuse & Recoverystarted Sep 28, 2026 · mutual
- Teo M. Pattstarted Sep 17, 2026
- TexasOil: A Tangled Witnessstarted Sep 3, 2026 · mutual
- Lilitu Rodac | Cult Survivorstarted Aug 26, 2026
- LifeArchitecture started Aug 26, 2026
- The Hutcherystarted Aug 13, 2026
- Scripted Desirestarted Aug 6, 2026
- Your Unheard Daughterstarted Aug 6, 2026
- The Unravelingstarted Jun 18, 2026 · mutual
- Defend Survivors With Paulastarted Jun 3, 2026 · mutual
- Sandystarted Jun 3, 2026
- Transform Trauma into Wisdomstarted May 18, 2026
- Jess Maevestarted May 8, 2026 · mutual
- Em's Substackstarted Apr 27, 2026
- Cory Dstarted Mar 17, 2026 · mutual
- Cults Recruit People, by Donna Lambstarted Mar 7, 2026 · mutual
- Sincerely, R.S.started Feb 20, 2026
Recommends
Dr Emma Katz28k followers · started Oct 30, 2026new- Maitri: Empowerment, Reinvention, and Post-Traumatic Growthstarted Oct 30, 2026new
- The Honest Faith Projectstarted Oct 30, 2026 · mutualnew
- The Unravelingstarted Oct 30, 2026 · mutualnew
- TexasOil: A Tangled Witnessstarted Oct 30, 2026 · mutualnew
- Defend Survivors With Paulastarted Oct 30, 2026 · mutualnew
- Insights on Abuse & Recoverystarted Jul 11, 2026 · mutual
- Cory Dstarted Jun 20, 2026 · mutual
- International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)started Apr 10, 2026
- Jess Maevestarted Apr 10, 2026 · mutual
- Cults Recruit People, by Donna Lambstarted Apr 10, 2026 · mutual
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
Recommended by the same publications
Writers who share the most recommenders with Kelsey Decker. Useful for finding peers, and for sponsors looking for similar audiences.
- 4 shared
Dr Emma KatzDecoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz
28k followers
Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Education writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (60 writers in that group), but not Kelsey Decker.
- recommends 21 of themThe Intellectual Investor
- recommends 2 of them
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- recommends 2 of themGrowing Middle Minds
- recommends 2 of themBecoming Literary
- recommends 2 of themNature Nurture Blog
- recommends 2 of themTo Easeful Days
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