Beauty and Fashion

Some people collect memories. I collect handbags, perfumes, makeup and the stories attached to them. And despite everything life has thrown at me — addiction, healing, reinvention and...

Lady Danger & Learning To Feel Powerful People often assume beauty is vanity. For me, beauty became armour. Long before recovery, beauty was one of the few things...

Makeup and confidence became connected for me long before I understood recovery, self-esteem or healing. Beauty was never simply about appearance. It became comfort. Ritual. Confidence. And sometimes,...

One of the hardest things about addiction is that eventually you stop only fearing for yourself. You start watching the disease take other people too. And somewhere along...

When I first went to rehab, I was told I needed to be detoxed. I had no idea what that even meant. In my head, detox simply meant...

It wasn’t until I turned 28 that I became openly honest about my alcoholism to everybody, not just people within the recovery community. Before that, secrecy had become...

I was so alone.I could be surrounded by people and still feel completely alone. At first it was drinks with other people — restaurants, parties, laughing too loudly,...