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Managing Editor Erin Khar is the author of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Nearly Killed Me. She is known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, relationships, parenting, infertility, and self-care. Her weekly advice column, Ask Erin, is published on Ravishly. Her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Salon, HuffPost, Marie Claire, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and others. She's the recipient of the Eric Hoffer Editor's Choice Prize and lives in New York City with her husband and two kids. When she’s not writing, she’s probably watching Beverly Hills, 90210.
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I have, at times, mistreated him due to letting my depression (and the anger it has caused) take over.
I had the pleasure of chatting with author Melissa Matthewson about her recently published memoir in essays, Tracing the Desire Line.
We are thrilled to present the cover reveal for Rose Andersen's memoir, The Heart and Other Monsters, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, July 7, 2020: A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis—an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime.
My daughter hates me. I have a 17-year-old daughter. She says our relationship has been bad for the last two years.
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew?
My boyfriend is normally funny and sweet...However, sometimes, when we are just chilling and cuddling, he will make comments about my body that seem to come out of nowhere.
I feel so jealous, and I don’t know how to handle it. All the things I want, she gave him, and he doesn’t want those things again.
When it was announced last week that “Sesame Street” had created a new character, Karli, whose mom is struggling with addiction, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Wendy J. Fox about her recent novel If the Ice Had Held.
The people I date tend to be very nice people who I enjoy spending time with but are never people I would be serious about building a life with.