Category: I Am Resilient Stories

Dialog about trauma, addiction, and behavior is broadly broken, at least from the sources I used to draw from. This dialog serves the purpose of explaining its own ineffectiveness at the cost of hope for those who suffer, it obscures the path one must travel

After the stillbirth of my son, finishing chiropractic college, moving, taking national boards, starting a practice, and taking on two bonus daughters, you may think, how could one survive? But I did! Moving from a barrier island to the Midwest was a culture shock, but

I realized that my mother was not the parent that I thought she was. This is for everyone who suffered trauma from molestation and domestic violence as a child. As children, we have very little power to change the circumstances of our surroundings. Parents do

Have you ever watched your child do something so awe-inspiring that it leaves you breathless? For me, it was seeing my son confidently stand before a room of 50 strangers at his first-ever clothing release party, delivering his first live speech. As he spoke from

As we rang in 2000, we partied to Prince’s “1999,” wondering if the world would descend into chaos because computers wouldn’t know how to handle the year “00.” When our party didn’t plunge into darkness, and everything kept working, I thought we were in the

Over the past ten years I’ve embraced the courage, tenacity, and resilience to completely reinvent my life, I left an abusive marriage, and walked away from two toxic jobs, to follow my passion to help women rediscover their brilliance and step into new possibilities. When

MY FAULT I humbly share with you a story—a lesson—on survival—from costly tragedy to awareness, acceptance, accountability, and resilience. This unfolding of tragedies was born simply from a lack of focus during the best of times—not living in the present moment, an array of personal

I became a single mom of 2 children very suddenly in a new city and state without a job or any friends or family around when my husband left for another woman. The very worst day of my life started when I woke up suddenly

Mother loss is a nightmare I never expected to experience in my mid-thirties, and losing my mom to a three-week battle with cancer changed me in ways that I didn’t know were possible. It’s a story I share not because it’s easy but because it’s

I was a caregiver & advocate for my mother. She had an incurable non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma & Pancreatic Cancer. It was 30 years after her cancer diagnosis, and things were going fairly well, but then came the challenges of navigating Covid-19. Life was put on hold,