Please don’t tell me I should see a doctor first. I already know this may be crazy. Dangerously unhealthy. But I’m doing it. First, I have an insanely high cortisol
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Things NOT to Say to Someone Who Was Sexually Molested
Everyone knows there are things you do not say when people tell you they were sexually molested as children — things like: Well, what were you wearing? That explains a lot.
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Losing My Mind — Literally
Did you ever read the story “Flowers for Algernon“? (It was also a movie called Charly.) Here’s the story: Charly is an adult man with an IQ of 68,
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Weekly Confession: Why Do I Keep Getting This Stuff?
Hello, my name is Dixie, and I’m a shopaholic. (Hi, Dixie.) I’m not your credit card debt, hoards bags and bags from TJ Maxx kind of shopper. I’m more
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Weekly Confession #2: My Body is Broken (I’m Fat)
Last week I opened up about my broken brain. I keeping with my pledge to make a new confession each week, this post deals with something about which I am
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My Brain Is Broke
Maybe folks will look at this headline and think, “Big whoop” or less charitably, “Duh.” Actually, as a relentless over-sharer, my adding another confession to my list of not-so-secret-secrets
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Crush Your Goals with a Mastermind Group
There are lots of great women who have goals their busy lives keep them from pursuing. They want to work on that novel, get started on that business, lose
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Swearing is Healing (And If You Don’t Like It…)
The word “fuck “makes me feel good. I love to say it, wear it, think it. I am a fan of all its permutations: fuck, fucking, and fucker. I
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This Adoptee Found Out Blood is Thicker Than Daughter
I wrote a piece for BUST Magazine on how finding my birth family (specifically finding out I come from a family of political, proactive Sorensens) helped me find myself.
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Start Your Own Podcast: A Practical How-To Guide
As someone who helps people and businesses identify, develop and promote their brands, increasingly I’ve been suggesting getting into the still relatively “blue ocean” of podcasting. (“Red oceans” are
