Why I do this work
I know what it is to start over from the ground up. I'm a survivor of abuse — and rebuilding after that isn't a single moment. It's learning to feel safe again, to trust your own read on the world, to believe the future can hold something good.
I was also adopted, which means I've spent a lot of my life sitting with the questions underneath so much of this work: Who am I, really? Where do I belong? I understand how it feels to build a sense of self when the foundation you were handed has cracks in it.
I rebuilt my life while raising four children. You don't have to wait until you're "healed" to start living.
And I did all of it while raising four kids — carrying real weight while doing my own healing, determined not to pass the pain down. So when I say I understand showing up for everyone else while you're still putting yourself back together, I mean it from experience.