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      • I Was In Love With A Narcissist: How I Left His Harem and Rediscovered Myself
      • Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
      • Gay Pride, Straight Sex and Bloody Marys (Book Excerpt)
      • The Love Riddle
      • Journaling From my Past
      • True Living: Saying Goodbye to Denial
      • Pain as Purpose? Get outta here.
      • Power Strip: An Adult Extertainer’s Backstory
      • Lost, Found, London
      • Living with Depression: Why I No Longer Feel Shame
      • A Valentine’s for Singles (You Are Victorious)
      • On the corner of Lessons and Message (poem)
      • Who are you? (No, really)
      • I used to be hot: an ex-stripper appreciates her body (then and now).
      • The Sociopath and Me: A Love Story
      • The Marriage of Love: A Song For Everyone
      • Face. Value.
      • Right Now.
      • Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
      • An open letter to anyone who reads me
      • Review: ‘Bare’ Took Me There
      • Top Ten
        • 1 ~ 5
          • Like a Stone: A 90s Party Girl’s Thoughts On Chris Cornell
          • Shit just got real: my brain aneurysm
          • It’s a Jungle Down There
          • Popular Chaos: How Smartphones affect us
          • The Incomparable Dr. Bigelow
        • 6 ~ 10
          • More than a feeling
          • A lesson in Weird
          • Like a Record, Baby.
          • Letting go, holding on
          • Pants on Fire
    • Stripper Stuff
      • Part One
        • Last song: true story from my stripper days (and a poem that was born)
        • It’s a Jungle Down There
        • Stripper Scoop: Top five questions answered
        • The truth about me and porn
        • Cabaret
        • Music and Chair Shows: Reflections of a retired stripper
        • Strippers: Five Truths
        • So, your name really isn’t Chardonnay?
        • Happiness For Sale?
        • Face. Value.
        • Don’t I know you? (excerpt)
        • I used to be a rock star
        • Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
        • Skin Deep: What made me start stripping at 19
        • Only in a strip club…
      • Part Two
        • Isn’t it Ironic? (from Waikiki, post 1)
        • Stage Pillows (from Waikiki post 2)
        • Back to the Clubs (from Waikiki, post 3)
        • Mea Culpa: Confessions of a Baby Sister
        • Does your mother know: confessions of a stripper
        • From bullies to burlesque
      • Part Three
        • What’s YOUR stripper name?
        • Does your mother know: confessions of a stripper
        • Dancer’s Reunion
        • Show and tell
        • So this ex-stripper, and a gay dude walk in to a bar…
        • Valentina: When Old Meets New
        • Fascination St.
    • Head
      • Part One
        • Living with Depression: Why I No Longer Feel Shame
        • And, Scene: Crimes and Misdemeanors
        • The Sociopath and Me: A Love Story
        • I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me
        • State of Mind
        • Let go or hang on? Your call, your rules.
        • Sine Metu – Addendum
        • Instinct
        • Emotional Roulette
        • Boredom or Bedlam: Are You An Emotional Cutter?
      • Part Two
        • A Narcissist’s Harem: Are you in one?
        • Fantasy vs. Reality: Where do you live?
        • Fat. Chance.
        • Sine Metu (Without Fear)
        • All one
        • The Blind Leading the Mind
        • Crazy is the new black
    • Spine
      • Part One
        • You’re not a Pussy
        • It gets better
        • Worth
        • Jellyfish
        • What she said
        • Compared to what?
        • Objects may seem larger
      • Part Two
        • Photoshop and Filters: Evil or Blessing?
        • 21
        • I’ll see your “no”, and raise you…
        • Stepford Lives
        • Don’t believe the bad stuff
      • Part Three
        • Giving yourself permission
        • Worth
        • Because we are worth it
        • Universe, you little bitch
        • A lesson in Weird
    • Heart
      • Part One
        • Sticks and Stones: do others’ opinions of you effect your own?
        • Normal
        • And, Scene: Crimes and Misdemeanors
        • Boxes
        • Unfolding as it should be
        • Familiar
        • Soon
        • More than a feeling
      • Part Two
        • Knots
        • Right Now.
        • Lost, Found, London.
        • Breakups: 5 ways to keep your sanity (and help heal your heart)
        • Can you tell?
    • Funny Bone
      • It’s a Jungle Down There
      • Operation Orgasm: The Student Becomes The Master
      • Faking it
      • An open letter to Botox
      • Walk of Shame
      • Breast Intentions
      • 80’s Flashback Café
      • *Let’s just consider it water under my vagina
    • Addiction
      • Part One
        • A safe kind of high: My unexpected relapse
        • Take two pills and detox in the morning
        • Addiction: simple and complicated
        • Guts
        • High. School.
      • Part Two
        • At the end of the day, who’s really full of it?
        • “Not my kid”
        • Thanks Andrew
        • Don’t panic: how I survived an attack without drugs
        • “Why is Addiction Still Considered a Personal Weakness?” by Michael Moritz
    • Personal Reviews
      • Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
      • Review: ‘Bare’ Took Me There
      • Guts
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    • National Association of Memoir Writers
    • Renegade Spotlight
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      • Maid of Dishonor
      • Madonna, my partner in aging
    • SMITH Magazine
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    • Women on the Fence
    • Kirsty TV
      • Operation Orgasm
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Christine Macdonald

Author. Speaker. Recovering Narcissist.

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For more information, please visit Christine’s Amazon Author Page. 

 

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