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Michelle Dowd

Family Secrets

Grammie asks me to promise I’ll never grow old, stroking my blonde hair reassuringly, as if I’m a reluctant dog. She tells me I remind her…

11 min readSep 7, 2020

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Family Secrets

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What I Learned about Masculinity from my Father

“It is not as if what is true, right, urgent and necessary is a light, and what is harm is darkness. They are both darkness; they are both…

5 min readJun 11, 2019

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What I Learned about Masculinity from my Father

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Michelle Dowd

What’s Savasana For?

“A healer is someone that triggers healing powers within you”

5 min readApr 8, 2019

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What’s Savasana For?

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Michelle Dowd

Over Dinner

Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would…

5 min readFeb 1, 2019

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Over Dinner

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Michelle Dowd

To Be Seen

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” — Thoreau

3 min readJan 15, 2019

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To Be Seen

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Michelle Dowd

Strike Your Note

“Pathmaker, there is no path. You make the path by walking. By walking, you make the path. ”

4 min readOct 21, 2018

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Strike Your Note

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Michelle Dowd

Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

5 min readJul 19, 2018

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Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

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Michelle Dowd

What I Learned Pole Dancing

For the past few months, I’ve been training with a woman we call J. She’s an accomplished athlete, dancer, performer and business owner…

6 min readJun 23, 2018

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What I Learned Pole Dancing

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Michelle Dowd

Hold My Hand

Gayle died when we were fourteen. We were roommates in the Hematology/Oncology ward in Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles the spring of our…

5 min readJun 17, 2018

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Hold My Hand

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Michelle Dowd

Quiet Street

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its…

4 min readApr 22, 2018

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Quiet Street

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Michelle Dowd

Michelle Dowd

Author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult. Visit MichelleDowd.org for more information. Or follow me on Substack.

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