INSPIRING YOU TO LOVE YOURSELF BY EMPOWERING YOU TO TRANSFORM TRUAMA INTO TRUTH

I am a wildlife biologist and social scientist by training, passionate about loving people. Drawn to community service, I have worked in the nonprofit sector for over two decades, championing social and environmental causes including: Fairbanks Rescue Mission Recycling Center, a green collar job program to train and employ unhoused clients to operate the community recycling center; One People, One Earth climate change initiative, which convened interfaith, Indigenous, youth, and scientific leaders to build bridges of understanding across communities; and Converse Hope Center a domestic violence and sexual assault nonprofit — empowering victims and inspiring hope.

Today, I am writing Surrender on the Mountain: A Story About Trauma, Truth, and Above All Love. It is a memoir based on my 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 equip readers with language about what is on the other side of trauma, language to give love the momentum to spread from person to person, 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.