Jeanne Joe Perrone

Jeanne Joe Perrone

Bio

Jeanne Joe is a staff writer and assistant editor for Quail Bell Magazine, a freelance writer, contributing writer for Elite Daily, freelance copy editor, author of several Amazon Bestsellers (under pseudonym), and creator of popular blog Calamity Joe. Jeanne Joe is also an actress who holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School, just like total stranger and fellow alum Bradley Cooper. She has performed in over 40 professional acting roles in the last 6 years.

Jeanne Joe Perrone Articles

Yoga is here to support you — not to make you fake inner peace.

7 Yoga Poses For Rage!

Here are 7 yogic methods to vent, channel your anger, and satisfy your warrior bloodlust … without undermining your feelings or landing you in prison.

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It has happened to so many people in such a consistent, freaky way that it is speculated by psychologists that sleep paralysis may be the source of the concepts of the night demons known as incubi and succubi.

I Thought I Was Being Attacked By Demons — Until I Found Out I Had Sleep Paralysis

It has also happened to countless others from every culture and time in human history: Sleep paralysis, a fairly common sleep disorder that has almost always been associated with supernatural horror.

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Wow I Feel Old: Why Sex And The City Is Now A Period Piece

Let’s talk about sex — Sex and the City, that is. (Wink wink, groan groan.)

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Lent was when everyone admitted that you were supposed to suffer, and my constant inner struggles with church and my body and my brain could come out and breathe in the heavy, ashy air.

Why I Gave Up Lent For Lent

Lent is serious. I mean, it starts with people putting ashes on their faces while someone chants, "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return," and then it ends with Jesus being tortured to death and then coming back to life. Yikes. I mean, I know we don’t have the monopoly on intense religious traditions, but dang, we Christians sure know how to party/freak out 6-year olds.

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All these years later, my eyes still sting when I think about what she did for me...

My SHEro: The Teacher Who Pretended To Be My Mother For The Day

When I was in third grade, my parents got divorced. My mom went back to school full-time in the hopes of beginning a new career that would support us. Oddly, this was one of the richest years of my life; my world split and shifted on its axis, and yet somehow didn’t knock me over — thanks to a SHEro (or two).

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