In 2021 I walked into the Emirates Stadium in London as an agency worker. Until that point, I had been snapping up the best paid Front of...

Was I ready to rescue myself? Not yet. However, I was starting to see where the responsibility lies. How do we go from powerless to...

Recovery  (a working definition) – ‘A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed...

Emma had been MIA (Missing In Action) for several weeks now. She still had a few Step 9 amends to make. There is no hard and fast rule...

Last Friday was the last night of my first guest in my new home. I have known her for nearly six years and she has been instrumental in...

Is Jonnie my Spiritual Sidekick or am I hers? If you have been following my journey into and out of chaos for the last eighteen months...

Awareness. Step 1. Focusing on what I was feeling, instead of what I wasn’t feeling was when the ship started to turn. I’ve been at this...

Jonnie and I have been in our new location for just over two weeks now. After the shock and exhaustion of yet another move subsided and...

October 2023. “What happened when you were three years old?” asked Carol. Wow, I thought. She’s good. This had been on my mind for a...

There is a stigma about cutting people out of our lives. Family estrangement is as abundant as abusive relationships of every kind. Yet...

The sky is cloudless. The bird song is ever present. Jonnie and I sit by an open door at the home of Jo the Belgian in Gigny-sur-Saone,...

Do you know what it means to feel psychologically safe? Having spent the last year extricating myself from an intimate relationship that...

THE POWER As the story unfolded, my character looks for answers in her past, to her present dangers. I went with her. I had always...

THE PROCESS I wish I could tell you that when I arrived in Roujan, I sat down and immediately began to write. Jonnie and I had achieved...

From Paralyzed to Unparalleled - The Pain, the Process and the Power. THE PAIN 2023 was my annus horribilis. As an alcoholic in Recovery,...

Title - Experience, Strength & Hope What informs my Coaching & Writing I began to realize I was being forced into shutting down. The...

Who Am I? I escaped my environments to the South of France with my Egyptian rescue dog Jonnie, helping women discover their strengths,...