I am a writer, a writer writes. In my case however, I am also someone with a history of depression, someone with a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease, and someone who
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SHUT IT DOWN: Why I (Legit) HATE Valentine’s Day
A while back I shared a tweet about an idea that I still think is pretty good I once saw an article proposing the movement of Christmas to late February
Having Sex In Public, Comfort, and Letting Go of “Should”
I have a long distance partner who I see a couple of times a year and with whom I have a lovely ongoing email correspondence. One feature of this is, perhaps obviously,
2017 Best of Bedhead: Posts, Podcasts, Appearances & More!
Welcome to my fifth annual Best of Bedhead post! I cannot believe it’s my fifth time doing this! For 3 years this was pretty straightforward: I would set out to
Getting Really, Really Real About My Own Depression
For the last couple of years I’ve been doing a lot of writing about depression– how it can affect people, how to navigate it, ending the stigma around it… I
We Get to Be Where We Are: My Trip to the Guelph Sexuality Conference
So, as you may know, a couple of weeks back I attended the Guelph Sexuality Conference. I sat down today to write the traditional “I attended a wonderful conference, had
Dildos, Depression,Touring, and Teaching: 5 Years of The Redhead Bedhead
As impossible as it is for me to believe my baby, The Redhead Bedhead turned 5 on July 4, 2017. If we want to get technical, my first post didn’t
Thanks to SheVibe, I Grew Up To Be Wonder Woman!
What do you want to be when you grow up? That age-old question that, frankly, took me until my mid-thirties to figure out for real, has always played a starring
All The Times I Should Have Left My Terrible Therapist
For four years, 2007-2011, I saw a therapist mostly weekly with some periods of monthly visits when she thought I was “doing better”. Something that became very clear to me
20 Things You Might Not Know About JoEllen
When the urge hit me to write a “I bet you don’t know this about JoEllen!” post, I’ll admit I figured it would just be fun, frothy, and easy. For
