Hollye Dexter
Mom. Author. Singer. Rabble-Rouser.
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Letter to My Teenage Self

Letter to My Teenage Self

by Hollye Dexter | May 19, 2017 | aging gracefully, Healing from Fear, self acceptance, self esteem, teenage daughter, things I wish i knew then

Dear Teen Self,Remember that muggy, summer afternoon when you and your friends sat in a circle on your bedroom floor, your fingers raking through the tired, flattened shag carpet while you all pondered whether you’d still be alive in the year 2000?  (And then the...

The War on Drugs, The War on Us

by Hollye Dexter | Feb 12, 2012 | Healing from Fear, healing shame, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug use, Societal Woes, War on drugs, Whitney Houston

Yesterday, Whitney Houston was found dead in her bathtub at the Beverly Hills Hotel. On Thursday it was reported that she was behaving erratically, wearing mismatched clothes, doing handstands by the pool. I don’t think anyone is going to be surprised by the...

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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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