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,...