Cat Marnell, once one of the city's best wasted writers, has been sober for two years. (Making her, uh, one of the city's best writers).
In 2017, Marnell wrote a beloved memoir, How To Murder Your Life, about her attempts to juggle a tough life as a fashion and beauty journalist with rampant drug addiction.
The XOJane star came clean in 2022 and just celebrated her two-year anniversary.
She wrote a Dharma column about it on her substackBeauty Shambles.
“Sobriety just feels like…nothing. I wake up in the morning and there's nothing. “I leave the house and walk to my desired destination feeling nothing,” she writes. I eat three meals a day and have nothing. I feel like things are looming over me, so the shelves are emptier than the shelves I always clean out.It’s just…nothing. ”
He said that he celebrated his second anniversary on November 28th.
“Needless to say, my sense of nothingness is at its peak. It's not just that I don't have a handicap, it's a great privilege in itself. Nothing is luxurious. And nothing is meditative. “In Buddhism,” she wrote, “the concept of nothingness is known as 'shunyata,' which in Sanskrit can also be translated as 'emptiness,' 'emptiness,' or 'emptiness.' I don't claim to be a serious reader of Buddhist teachings…but I can tell you this. I feel as empty as the mailbox I check every day for letters from the IRS and mortgage forms. And I like it. ”
Marnell said, “I'm writing an autobiographical novel about my confused, sexy 30s.”
