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The Kind of Girl You’d Warn Your Sons Off

By | Authenticity, books, Codependency, Confidence, Courage, Cultural Issues, extreem dependency, forgiveness, How to Eat The Elephant, India, Interview, Intimacy, Iran, Life, manipulation, marriage, mistakes, Muslim, Polygamy, reinvention, Remya Warrior, risk, running, Self-acceptance, shame, trapping a man, voice, Writing | No Comments

One of the benefits of writing a book is the visibility it buys you.  Know that saying, build it and they will come?  Well, that’s bullshit. After all that hard…

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Parenting Advice From a Shitty Mother

By | accountability, Alcoholic rules, Alison Bottke, books, Boundaries, change, Codependency, confrontation, Courage, expectations, guilt, Life, mistakes, parenting, people pleasing, Reading, Setting Bounaries With Your Adult Children | 22 Comments

As a generation, we’ve done our children a grave disservice by continually rescuing them from discomfort, self-created or otherwise. We’ve meant well, but rather than ensuring their success by smoothing…

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How You Ended Up Trapped

By | Alcoholic rules, books, Boundaries, Bridget Cooper, coaching, Codependency, confrontation, Courage, Cultural Issues, eating disorders, expectations, Feed the Need, Iran, Life, limiting beliefs, mistakes, people pleasing, Power Principles of Time Mastery, Reading, recovery, Saying no, Self love | 20 Comments

This fall, my friend Bridget Cooper invited me to write the forward for her book Feed The Need, which got me really excited. I mean, I love this saucy minx’s…

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It’s Braver to be Clark Kent Than Superman

By | Authenticity, Boundaries, bulimia, coaching, Confidence, connection, Courage, criticism, eating disorders, Honesty, identity, nice girl complex, perfectionism, recovery, risk, Saying no, Self-acceptance, Ted Talk, voice, vulnerability, Writing, writing lessons | 4 Comments

As many of you may know, I teach writing workshops—locally and online—and coach those who want to write and publish a book. I also coach nice girls (and guys) who…

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