One of the ways to learn to stop hiding is to find people where you feel safe to be yourself. This happened to me when I discovered that I’m gay and found my underground gay family, a group of other gay service members. We were all deeply closeted out of fear of being caught and […]
Hi Friends, I am excited to be creating a Hideology™ community on Substack. Here’s the link: https://hideology.substack.com/ I’m sharing my initial post here, so that you’ll see what I’m doing and where it’s going. Thank you…Here’s the post ⬇️⬇️⬇️ As a Combat Hideologist, hiding—or what I coined: Hideology™—is my field of expertise. I have lived
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A true joy to be interviewed by Sari Botton on Lit Lab (Memoir Land) June 11th, 2024 The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #16: Retired Gay Sailor Karen Solt
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Here is the essay I wrote that was published in Writer’s Digest on June 4th, 2024: Putting Truth to the Page in Memoir Writing
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Link to GO Magazine’s 100 Women We Love: Class of 2024
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We live in a world where we are constantly targeted for our attention and are being pulled off our center to fulfill someone else’s agenda. So today, I wanted to share some thoughts about showing up more centered and peaceful by reclaiming our attention and time—our most precious irreplaceable commodity. A few years ago, my
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Here are a few anti-hiding factoids: If you’re in resistance to—pushing away—your life, you’re in some way hiding. On the other hand, if you’re flowing with your life and allowing yourself to experience everything coming your way…you are not in hiding. Most of us are in some form of resistance at any given time, whether it be
Note from Karen: I had the honor of sitting down with Kristin Kaye, published author and my book coach, to talk about writing—when the writing becomes facing trauma, when the writing is tough. For over a year, Kristin held my hand as I dove into—read: became consumed with—writing my pre-published memoir. Her thoughts on writing, When
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You’re not going to like these next words, but to come out from hiding and live in your truth, you will have to dig deep into the dark places that you have been trying to avoid for a long time. However, there is nothing more fulfilling than coming back out. It’s scary—this digging. It’s a
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Look all the way left. Then look all the way right. What do you think you will find? Since you aren’t looking left again, you won’t find a safe way to cross the street. In this scenario, you won’t find safety at all. What you will find is one of the most dangerous things a
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