I know what it's like to be in the bed.
I also know what it's like to hold the chart.

I learned entrepreneurship from the drug dealers I hung out with in high school. I learned what love looks like from a man who polished his shoes the same way every Sunday and never once raised his voice. I learned what the nervous system does under pressure from a childhood that required me to be the adult in the room at age six.

I am a collage of a human being. That is the most accurate description I have found.

I am a registered nurse. I spent two years on a cardiac and oncology step-down floor reading vital signs, catching what the monitors hadn't caught yet, staying present in rooms where people were afraid. I was exceptionally good at it. I now understand why: I had been trained for exactly that kind of attunement since childhood, in houses where the emotional weather changed without warning and you learned to detect the shift before it became a storm.

I am also a certified trauma recovery coach, a memoirist, and a woman in recovery.

I have been in the white hallway of a psychiatric unit not knowing my own name. I have been the one reading the chart. Both of those things are true. I do not separate them when I write or when I coach, because they have never been separate inside me.

Addicted to Trauma, my memoir, is the full story. It releases in 2026. The prologue is available now. join the waitlist and it arrives in your inbox today.