Turn On

I wrote a whole book about coming out of hiding. Then I turned it in and hid.

August 10, 2026

Darling Sister, I typed the last word of On Our Knees, sent the whole manuscript to my editor, and did not celebrate.  No champagne. No dancing around the kitchen.  Instead I got what Brené Brown calls a vulnerability hangover — the sick, shaky comedown that hits after you hand strangers the most naked parts of […]

Confession: I am in the middle of a sprint, and pleasure is how I am winning it

June 23, 2026

Let me confess something to you, my love. Right now, as I write this, I am in the middle of a motherfucking sprint. Massive things are happening in my world, bigger than I can fully tell you yet. (One of the biggest lands on June 24, and you will be the very first to know. […]

Turn yourself on, on purpose (pleasure is not a reward you earn)

June 15, 2026

Sisters, Years ago, I was handed an assignment that sounded slightly absurd and more than slightly terrifying: prepare my home as if the most important person in the world were coming to visit.  Clean it. Fill it with beauty. Choose the food, the candles, the music. And then realize that the guest was me. That […]

This is for the women with desires for money AND a life

June 8, 2026

Sister, There was a year I came home from a book launch tour absolutely on fire with my own destiny. And then the IRS put a lien on everything I owned. I remember sitting on the floor of my apartment, back against the couch, staring at the letter. This was the life I had built. […]

Holiday Help from Mama G

December 29, 2020

Can you feel it? That blizzard of uncertainty?   How the f*ck do we holiday in a pandemic with no reliable tracks to follow? Do we break out of our homes, and risk gathering? Or stay indoors and isolate?   I hosted a Q/A on Zoom a couple weeks back for roughly 100 women, and I was […]

You don’t have to heal to be magnificent.

May 22, 2018

It’s hard to see our beauty, sometimes. Impossible, at other times. But there are two things I know for sure: 1.  I have never met a woman who wasn’t beautiful. 2.  I have never met a woman who actually knew how beautiful she was. Because beauty isn’t about hip-to-waist-to-breast proportions.  It’s not about facial symmetry […]

You are more than what you can provide others.

May 8, 2018

When was the last time you gave yourself a rest? A really, really, really good rest? And let every inch of your land lie fallow? Letting things lie fallow feels … biblical. We do not live in a world that honors stillness, a plot of land unseeded. We are all celebrated for how much we do and […]

Exactly how I wrote a bestseller (and achieve anything else I want to)

April 24, 2018

I believe that everyone — every single person — has at least one really really good book inside of them. Not all of these great reads will get written. Some will get put off and put off and put off and … Writer’s block will claim others. Lack of confidence will stop millions. Or lack […]

3 things to do when you feel overwhelmed, depleted, stressed, or just plain full-moony

April 10, 2018

I’ve been doing some celebrating this week.  It’s not all I’ve been doing but it’s what I want to tell you about first. It’s nice to warm things up with a hot brag. My beloved bestseller, Pussy: A Reclamation, came out in paperback and it’s gorgeous!  And on the very first day, you made it one […]

What your desire needs is a greenhouse

March 20, 2018

This is what I see when I see a woman: a bundle of desires.   Even if she doesn’t think so, even if she doesn’t know so, even if she is in a place of lost. Beneath the surface of her cultural cooperation beats a wild free heart filled with longing. The only way to […]

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