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Exclusive Interview on Life in a Cult, How to Escape a Cult, and Memoir Writing with 'The True Happiness Company' Author Veena Dinavahi

Watch our interview with Veena Dinavahi about mental health, the self-help cult she didn't realize she joined, leaving the cult, Mormonism, and her…

10 hrs ago • Open Secrets Magazine, Veena, and Rachel Kramer Bussel

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If You Write About Your Life, You’ll Probably Never Run Out of Things to Say

How to find new material when writing personal essays and memoir

Jan 28 • Michelle Gurule

How I Made Peace with the Secret Failure Behind My Successful Career

Helping my daughter with her pre-calculus homework took me back to failing calculus in college

Jan 27 • L.S. Stratton

I Zoomed My Sister’s Funeral

How I handled my grief from a distance

Jan 26 • Tawnya Gibson

I Throw Pottery. Would I Throw My Career, Too?

After the chaos of the last government shutdown—and a hard year of loss and change—federal workers like me face a tough decision.

Jan 24 • Madison Chapman

Object-ives #20: The Josef Originals Birthstone Figure I’ll Never Get Rid Of—and the Identical One I Also Adore

Why each of these keepsakes means the world to me

Jan 23 • Lisa Rosendahl

New Year, Same Me

Athena Dixon on setting intentions instead of making resolutions

Jan 21 • Athena Dixon

It’s More Like a Five

A doctor dismissed my pain because I’d driven myself to the clinic. Now I bring my teenage daughter to appointments—not for support, but as a witness.

Jan 20 • Brittany Miles

The Gun That Exploded My Marriage

Guns weren’t the only problem in my marriage but they were the final straw

Jan 19 • Rebecca Agiewich

Object-ives #19: My Life in Boxes

When records hold more than just music

Jan 16 • Zach Wiles

My Hookup in a Sauna Next to a Straight Man

An excerpt from Jesse James Rose's memoir 'sorry i keep crying during sex'

Jan 13 • Jesse James Rose

I’m an Old Lady Life Prepper

Field notes from spying on old women

Jan 12 • Trevy Thomas

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