About Me

With a beauty-for-ashes story of my own, I write and speak about living in the courage of authenticity and the lessons I am learning along the way.

Like many, I grew up facing difficult challenges. I knew abuse from a very young age and that, combined with an impossible faith, turned my voice into an echo chamber of what was expected of me. I spent half my life striving to be perfect enough to be loved.

Under that suffocating burden, I stopped laughing. I stopped singing. I stopped believing.

I was as done with God as I was convinced he was with me. My heart withered, and all my hope ran out like dust through my fingers. Through a long season of desperate prayers, I came squinting out of the dark. Maybe more accurately, I came out swinging. It would take years of fighting before I would finally find my voice, and God’s peace, in stillness.

Today, I am a speaker and writer on Catholicism and on the Word of Faith Movement. Most of my time, however, is spent speaking to women of all ages about their irreplaceable value and about discovering refreshing joy after traveling the hard places.

My life is an open invitation to those who have lost a precious treasure—themselves. I don’t have all the answers, but I am excellent company for the ride home.