About Me

I write and speak about living in the courage of authenticity and the lessons God continues to teach me along the way.

Like many, I grew up facing challenging relationships and experiences from a very young age—circumstances and expectations which robbed me of the honest expression of who God created me to be and which turned my voice into an echo chamber. I spent over half my life striving to be enough.

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

Without any understanding of the lies about myself I had loved as truth, I carried the albatross of living in formulas—frantic for the right one that would please God and satisfy the demand I placed on myself to make everyone happy. Through long seasons of desperate prayers, countless hours of research, and deep spiritual and emotional work, I finally find my voice, and God’s peace, in stillness.

Today, I am a speaker and writer on how our life’s spiritual, emotional, and physical experiences have shaped us. I work together with audiences to recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns in their lives, to discover their inherent dignity, and to embrace refreshing joy while 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.