On Being “S3x Mom”
"Do I really want to be 'sex mom?'" I asked my therapist when I'd completed writing my memoir . She laughed. "Sure, why not?" "Because... well, because... do I wanna be 'sex mom?'" "First of all, you don't know that you'll be 'sex mom' because of your book. And even if you are, so what?" she challenged. "One book, one act, one nickname doesn't stick with you forever... When you're done being 'sex mom' you can be someone else. Anyone you want to be." It was a powerful statement - we can be anyone we want to be at any time, regardless of our past. Powerful. True, even. But not completely helping to quell my fears... My anxiety wasn't just about a nickname, obviously. It was about my identity and the way I presented myself to the world; it was about what people would think of me. Which was ironic, of course, as the core message of my book is about how I learned to be true to ...