Stories of Resilience

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

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

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

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

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

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

I needed to befriend resiliency. My love/hate – ok, mostly hate-filled relationship with the “r” word, is a battle Royale. It’s kind of legendary, even.

Given the effects of complex PTSD, I woke up one morning and found myself struggling to breathe. I thought that emerging out of two early-stage

I lost my son, my husband, and my brother within 2.5 years of each other. Grief came for me like a storm without warning, ripping

After over 30 years with my partner, I received a random text from a stranger that changed the course of my life. ‘Hi, I know

Why anorexia? Why me? I suffered from anorexia and over-exercise addiction as a way to cope with my mom’s clinical depression from the age of

I lost my marriage, my career, and my health all at once, which pushed me into deep depression and addiction. Nobody ever tells you that