Hello friends! We are technically ONE MONTH AWAY from the release of my first book, "Leaving Cloud 9." And now, the book even has it's own website -- check it out here! June 26th is the big day but I have some BIG goals for pre-orders of the book. If each of my social media followers and readers pre-ordered, we would blow that goal out of the water.  Do you have a book club or know of one? I'd LOVE for book clubs to choose "Leaving Cloud 9" for their July reads. It's chock full of a million issues to breakdown and discuss -- from religion to drug addiction to mental illness to the American dream. Plenty of discussion fodder for book lovers to dig into. ***There are a few perks for those pre-order (if you do anything for me, do … [Read more...]

I hate to type it, but my maternity leave is coming to an end very soon. My first pregnancy, I took only 6 weeks off before working again and this time, I took 8 weeks -- still not enough for me! I enjoy my job, but you know how it is :) Life resumes and we do what we must. Unfortunately, that means I have to think about childcare for my precious new baby girl. The thought of sending her off to daycare right away made me very sad. At 2.5, I am still a little heartbroken everyday when I drop Jacob off and that's no lie (Here's my post from his first week of daycare two years ago). Sure, it's easier than it used to be but I almost always hate it. Will I still feel this way when he's in 6th grade?! So I want to avoid quadrupling that … [Read more...]

*Pre-order now This post & trailer is in reference to my forthcoming book, "Leaving Cloud 9: The True Story of a Life Resurrected from the Ashes of Poverty, Trauma and Mental Illness." You can read more about the announcement here.  A video trailer about the book, which releases June 26th: We know there are people who feel hopeless. We know that past trauma, depression, mental illness and lack of love can create a prison of despair. We know that there are people out there who don't know that being happy or healed is a reality available to them. We know that life is hard and unfair. We know that we don't all start on a level playing field -- and that some of us grow up with awful parents -- or no parents. Some of us are born … [Read more...]