HeyJaredMelissa Duge Spiers
Memoirist, essayist, screenwriter. Author of HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out in May 2026 with Lake Drive Books.
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UPCOMING AUTHOR PANEL APPEARANCES (opens the original)
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Just a short “mark your calendar” note: I’ll be appearing on panels at the Brooklyn Book Festival in September and the Tahoe Lit Festival in October.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="306" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o
COMPULSIVE OVERSHARING as religious-trauma recovery tactic (opens the original)
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I am an aggressive, unrepentant oversharer. I’m not the lady who traps you in the grocery line with endless details about her sciatica and how her husband’s toe fungus led to their divorce. I’m not the proud mom who posts her childrens’ every Boy Scout success and school experience online. I’m not the vacationer with carousels of day-by-day highlights of my activities.In fact, if you follow me here or elsewhere online, you probably don’t know much about my life, my kids, my health, my friends, o
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN-DISCIPLINE CULTURE IS PEDOPHILE CULTURE... (opens the original)
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My fellow James-Dobson survivor posted on Instagram recently asking why religious authoritarian parenting so often targets toddlers. It was a valid question and a thoughtful post, but I couldn’t get past the book-cover photo on the first slide:<so
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