It’s no secret that I am on a mission to heal shame. I feel deep in my bones that shame is the cause of so much that hurts and harms all of us. The irony for me is that if we could openly talk about ourselves and our lives without feeling ashamed, we would be …
That’s me pretending to talk on the phone in a hotel room. This was a staged photo for an interview in the New York Times. Jeff Goodell, who now writes for Rolling Stone, interviewed me for the Times in 2001 and this photo was taken by Gail Albert Halaban, a professional photographer hired by the …
What a concept! Can you imagine asking sex workers what they think, feel and want? That rarely happens. Instead, “experts,” who almost never ask sex workers about the reality of their work, design programs to “rescue” sex workers whether they want to be “rescued” or not. And they write laws that affect sex workers, sometimes …
My friend Dr. Phil Zimbardo says, we are experiencing a “demise of guys.” In his TED Talk by the same name, he tells us that boys are 30% more likely to drop out of school than girls are. They are also less likely to obtain a college degree. Boys comprise two thirds of the special …
. . . will feel empowered to speak openly about it. That’s why I do. I want to model a world free of shame. I don’t make any secret of the fact that I worked as a high-end escort from 1989 to 2004. You can read all about it in Veronica in Her Own Words. But this …
We all have secrets. But the older I get, the fewer secrets I have. I know that is counterintuitive. Most people accumulate more secrets over time. But I am working in reverse it seems. Since I am on a mission to heal shame, mine as well as others’, I work hard to find the courage …
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