
A companion piece to my memoir Unshaming, here I talk about shame one post at a time. I cover addiction, relationships, sex, recovery, arts and culture. Sometimes when I feel particularly weak, I post work-in-progress.
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The other night, late at night, I was browsing through Substack and a new essay popped up written by a guy about how women want big dicks and how life isn’t fair. Because I have troll tendencies, I occasionally leave unsolicited comments on...
“Can I pet your dog?” the man on the streetcar says, then proceeds to try to pet my chihuahua who, as usual, is freaked out by being on public transit and is trembling like a leaf. I grabbed the streetcar to get home quickly because I worri...
Like everyone else (nobody) (you’re better than that) I am watching Love Island USA (season 8). In my defence, I had just submitted a new novel to a publisher and then my brain needed a break so I turned the tv on because I was sick of read...
Something interesting is happening with Drunk Mom again, a book that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life in many different ways: it’s becoming something other than an addiction memoir.
People still talk about it – especially now...
It’s Thanksgiving, a holiday in America where you get together with your family to eat turkey. I’m not American so I don’t care.
He texts from his parents and asks what I’m doing.
I’m walking home from a date with another man, a hot 2...
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Author of five books including Unshaming (Mar 2026), a book about shame, recovery, relapse, failure and hope.
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