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Heather B. Armstrong

Biography

Heather B. Armstrong

Heather B. Armstrong is widely acknowledged to be the most popular “mommy blogger” in the world. Her website, dooce®, has twice been listed as one of the 25 best blogs in the world by Time magazine and Forbes listed it as a top 100 website for women. In the 18 years that Heather has been shaping the internet writing community, she’s worked to create targeted content not only for fellow parents but also for numerous global brands --- including Ford, Nintendo and Clorox --- and written a New York Times bestseller, IT SUCKED AND THEN I CRIED. She lives in Salt Lake City with her two lovely daughters and an insane herding dog.

Heather B. Armstrong

Books by Heather B. Armstrong

by Heather B. Armstrong - Memoir, Nonfiction

For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce. But in 2016, Heather found herself in the depths of a depression she just couldn’t shake, an episode darker and longer than anything she had previously experienced. So, for the sake of herself and her family, Heather decided to risk it all by participating in an experimental clinical trial involving a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. Now, for the first time, Heather recalls the torturous 18 months of suicidal depression she endured and the month-long experimental study in which doctors used propofol anesthesia to quiet all brain activity for a full 15 minutes before bringing her back from a flatline. Ten times.