INSPIRING YOU TO LOVE
BY EMPOWERING YOU TO
TRANSFORM TRUAMA INTO TRUTH
I am a wildlife biologist and social scientist, speaker, and emerging literary artist, who is passionate about empowering people to love. With a heart for service, I have worked in the nonprofit sector for over two decades, stewarding social and environmental causes such as: cofounded a recycling center to train and employ unhoused community members; cofounded a climate change initiative, which convened interfaith, Indigenous, youth, and scientific leaders to build bridges of understanding across communities; and cofounded a nonprofit serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault nonprofit.
Today, I am writing Surrender on the Mountain: A Memoir About Trauma, Truth, and Above All, Love. Based on my lived experience and recovery from child sexual abuse, loss, and betrayal.
The primary reason for writing this book is to tell readers that — loving yourself is possible. The other reason, we live in world fluent in the language of trauma and hate and Surrender will offer readers language personal yet accessible language about transforming trauma into truth — language giving love the wings to fly from heart to heart, flower to flower, survivor to survivor.
I live on a hillside in Homer, Alaska overlooking Tikahtnu (Cook Inlet) with husband Shane and Kenzie, the bestest ‘lil canine companion.
Maria Walker
(She/Her)
