Heather B. Armstrong of Dooce.com Uses Therapy to Cope with Blogging

Blogging can become an obsession, and for professional bloggers (those who earn a living blogging), maintaining a blog can be all-consuming. Recently, several bloggers' deaths have been linked to the stress of blogging, and now an article from The Wall Street Journal describes some of the techniques Heather B. Armstrong of Dooce.com uses to survive the grueling schedule, unkind comments and creative blocks that top bloggers face on a daily basis.

Heather Armstrong's Dooce.com is ranked 59th on Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs. It's estimated that over 4 million people visit Dooce.com each month. With that traffic comes demands equivalent to running a business. Heather Armstrong uses professional therapy and her personal form of anger management (she prints the meanest comments on her blog out, puts them on her driveway and runs over them with her car) to get through the daily grind of professional blogging as one of the world's most popular bloggers.

Follow the link to read a profile of Heather Armstrong and Dooce.com to learn more about what makes her blog so popular.