Two ways to work with habitual and debilitating word-abuse — There I was, snuggled into the arms of my new boyfriend, heart-eyes emoji beaming from my face. “Do you want to stay?” I purr, looking up into his eyes. He smiles wryly. He chuckles, “Ah, no I think I’m ready to go, this is getting kind of awkward.” I feel…

Back when I still thought I was a regular human girl, life was pretty rough — The memories of my early years in this flesh-suit buzz with the unwelcome tingling of humiliation, mixed with the numb agony of shame, nauseatingly blurred by confusion and despair. Don’t get me wrong, there were thrills, too: like making out with my little five-year-old boyfriend in the complete darkness of…

Selling is unavoidably sleazy. Learn to get comfortable with the Salesman Archetype. — There’s no way around it: selling is sleazy. It immediately invokes power dynamics with unsavory images. Hunters stalking prey. Greasy, pressure-y men with bad teeth and bad breath, cornering you in a tacky office full of stale air. …

Fate strikes out of nowhere: learn to see the signs of a life-changing connection. — So I was sitting there, Mid-August, at the picnic table in the backyard, with the sun-dappled shade kissing the steam rising from my milky coffee. Had it been another season or setting, despair might have set in. …