[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I was too sensitive because I cried at old Hallmark movies and reruns of "Touched by an A...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE]. We've all witnessed or engaged in some bad dating moves, and it's not hard to do. Communi...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] "I meant what I said," he said. And I said, "I don't think you do mean what you said." An...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I just finished reading a book called The Coddling of the American Mind, which delineates...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I started running 15 years ago. I say that as if duration implies expertise, and to some ...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] Once, when I was a small child, I pulled a sink from a trash pile behind my parent's barn...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] Recovering from an eating disorder is a long, fraught, and imperfect journey. Sometimes, ...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] “Narcissists,” my therapist said, “often gravitate toward caring and compassionate people...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] "Dear David," I began my email. It was a copy-paste kind of email, highly impersonal and ...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I had half a glass of chardonnaynay and my head began feeling gooey, like a caramel candy...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] When I was very young and my brain half-formed and my skin so thin it was nearly transpar...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] And I don't necessarily mean silence on the internet. That's the least important place to...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] Confidence is "the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trus...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I had a dream about eating salmon. Thick, grilled, juicy salmon. I ignored it, but a few w...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] My dietitian usually weighs me each time I see her, which is every two weeks. Now, becaus...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I’ve been eating a lot of pudding lately. The sugar-free kind, since that seems better. B...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] I have a long word doc that contains bits of poems and stories and ideas. Sometimes, righ...

"What did you do that was so bad?" he asks. "I bought appetite suppressants," I answer, almost proudly. I know I just wasted money on apple

I was too weird for him, because when I asked him if we were dating, he said, "Why?" When he could have said, "Why certainly, darling" or "W

We've taken to social media to complain about people standing too close to us in checkout lines, to scream into to the internet abyss about