BOOK | Soul Homecomings

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About the Book

Published  5.16.2026

‘Soul Homecomings’ is a book for every person. We are all trying to figure out how to walk the journey. We are often trying to figure out how to walk each path alone. It doesn’t have to be that way.

I have walked a recovery journey for over three decades that has brought me healing, awareness and growth on levels I never thought I would be able to experience.

Through this journey and my work with women in my holistic wellness retreats and workshops, I have come to guide people through their soul homecomings while finding continuous peace within my own.

Being a part of these homecomings have humbly brought me closer to my own growth and awareness, evolving in the essays you are about to dive into. I hope you will be able to take these words, moments, and revelations with you on your own life journey.

The one phrase I am often sharing is that we are walking through a journey that never has a destination. There isn’t an endpoint to grief, recovery, healing, or growth. That is not to say life is always lived struggling, but to say life is always living the lessons, gifts and gratitude’s that come from inside the depths of struggle.
 
Will you take this leap with me today?
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BOOK | Pieces of Peace: 3 Minute Retreats to Sustain the Soul

About the Book

Published 3.27.2023
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Pieces of Peace: 3 Minute Retreats to Sustain the Soul is born out of ​my love of minute thoughts and reflections and has been a part of my journey for as far back as I can remember. In my beginnings I would offer a different quote daily on my voicemail before the technology world took over.

When I began stepping out into the light a bit more with my work in the social media environment, I knew I had to reach a population of people who had a noticeably fleeting time and attention span. So, I began writing blog thoughts; mini-journal entries, thoughts and affirmations for the day slowly walking into Minute Retreats.

Minute Retreats are powerful; just enough can add to one’s mind, thoughts, and reflection throughout the day. They challenge you to live a fuller and more meaningful life in manageable steps.

I find that so much is being asked of us daily. Minute Retreats are going to offer you a window into a part of yourself, a part of the person next to you and a part of the world around you which you did not realize you needed to see.

Take these as are best for you.

Maybe you will need or want more than one day for a topic; there is no right or wrong. All I ask is that you be open to what is truly being asked of you.

Be open to the possibility of personal growth.

BOOK | Tuning In, Turning Off & Finding Presence: Spiritual Reflections for Daily Living

About the Book
Published 2.13.2021
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Tuning In, Turning Off & Finding Presence: Spiritual Reflection for Daily Living is a book for the times. You will see an overlapping of themes, ministries, and personal mentors from work with Fr. Greg Boyle S.J. of Homeboy Industries to the worlds of Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Pope Francis coming full circle to my personal ministries in Lourdes and Israel through Pilgrimage; all which have guided me to these reflective depths of human nature.

I invite you to walk into this collection of essays written over the years with an open mind, open heart, and a yearning to go deeper into your faith, prayer, spiritual emptiness, personal holiness, and mercy.

​Come sit in silence with me.

BOOK | Find Your Voice Project: A Journey Towards Healing

About the Book

Published 3.13.2017 

Find Your Voice Project: A Journey Towards Healing is my 14-year battle with Anorexia and Body Hatred was the most defining moment of my life. It had intense ups and downs, literally life-threatening moments in hospitals and treatment programs as many will tell you it is a living miracle that I am alive today.

As I entered recovery, I began to go into the school systems, hospitals, eating disorder conferences and whomever called on me to share my story of strength, faith, hope and recovery. My professional speaking career started in the early 90's but took off in 2000 as I began to create diverse wellness workshops around my journey.

All the while people would ask me at every interaction when I would author a book about my story. I would say, ‘it isn’t the right time.'  I was in the thick of recovery, I felt I needed a solid base, and I needed a strong recovery to write about. The idea of putting it into writing was so much different for me than speaking. Speaking allowed me to help others take the leap into healing, while watching me in the thick of it. I found myself needing to ask real deep and honest questions: Could my story really benefit people?

I hold a great responsibility in sharing such a story, for over my years of illness I learned too much about how to stay in the Anorexia from others poorly written stories on eating disorders. I made several attempts to write it over the last 10 years, getting as far as halfway at one point when my computer crashed, and I lost the entire book. I knew at that moment that when the time was right, I would know the moment without hesitation.

 In 2016, I began once again writing. It flowed fast at that time, but I knew it wasn’t right just yet. I came back to it often alongside being a single mom and edited it from time to time, but it wasn’t until 2017 that my passion came alive, and I knew it was time to let the story be heard. I turned to trusted editor friends who knew the story to offer suggestions and realized it wasn’t just black and white. They challenged me to go the distance, to share my soul and to be brave.

So, 13 years into recovery I landed at what I feel to be exactly what my book was meant to be. It is my story within a workbook and a workbook within my story. It offers an intense story of survival, but at the same time next to each story are the teaching tools that worked for me to find recovery. Each treatment program, therapist and group offered me something that I took away with me on the journey and here you will find where you can embark on your road to wellness. The greatest repetitive compliment I receive is that this book can be used for anyone going through different journeys. The tools offered are true gifts that can add to any journey of healing and growth.

 I chose to self-publish after engaging in publishers and their feedback, for I wanted to keep the integrity of the book in place. From a publishers’ standpoint, they wanted to tear it apart to ‘look better to the eye’ and sell high numbers, where my format is what I know to work when going through recovery with my sole focus on helping people heal and live their best life.

This book is to help people primarily, I am asking now if you will help me on this journey to let the world know about Find Your Voice Project: A Journey Towards Healing. Thank you so much for being a part of this journey, I literally wouldn’t be alive without so many of you!

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