Founder, Rise & Reclaim™ | Author | Speaker | Advocate | Woman of Faith

Some people find their purpose. Mine was forged in what I survived—and it continues to be shaped by what I am learning to reclaim.

I turn what almost broke me into what protects and rebuilds others: children through body-safety education, women through healing and boundaries, and families through the conversations silence once stole from them.

As a child, I was sexually abused by my biological father—and later, by my mother’s boyfriend. Two adults who should have represented safety instead became the danger I did not yet have the words to name.

I share that once, here, because it is the reason this work exists. It is not the work itself.

What happened to me is part of my story, but it is not my identity. I am not building a platform around the harm that was done to me. I am building a body of work around what I have chosen to do with what I survived.

I did not have body-safety education as a child. I did not have trusted-adult conversations that could have helped me recognize unsafe behavior, understand that the abuse was not my fault, or know how to tell someone who would listen and take action.

The responsibility for the abuse belonged entirely to the adults who harmed me. A child should never be responsible for preventing an adult from violating their safety.

But I learned firsthand what can happen when important conversations are avoided—when adults are assumed to be safe simply because they are familiar and children are not given the language they may need before something happens.

Silence does not protect children. It allows harm and confusion to continue while a child carries what they were never meant to carry alone.

I cannot go back and give that little girl the protection she deserved.

What I can do is help build it for the children who come after her.

No Secrets, Just Safety™ is an age-appropriate body-safety book for children ages 4–8 and for the parents, caregivers, educators, and community members responsible for protecting them.

It teaches children about body ownership, personal boundaries, trusted adults, unsafe behavior, speaking up, and telling again until someone listens.

It was written for adults, too.

Most parents and caregivers want to protect their children but do not always know where to begin. They may fear saying too much, frightening their children, or introducing a difficult subject too soon. Some were never given this language themselves.

This book gives them the words.

No Secrets, Just Safety™ is not meant to frighten children. It is meant to prepare them—and to help the adults around them become more informed, intentional, and ready.

It is part of how I am working to change the narrative for the next child.

My mission does not stop at childhood body safety.

I created Rise & Reclaim™ as a healing-centered movement for women still standing after experiences that could have destroyed them—women carrying grief, family, relationships, careers, faith, purpose, responsibility, and healing, sometimes all in the same breath.

I understand how easily a woman can become so accustomed to surviving, caring for others, and carrying what must be done that she forgets to tend to herself along the way.

Rise & Reclaim™ exists to help women look honestly at what they have experienced, understand how it has shaped them, establish boundaries that actually hold, rebuild stability, and move forward without leaving themselves behind.

This work is guided by the R.I.S.E.™ Method:

Recognize
What you have lived through.

Integrate
The truth instead of burying it.

Stabilize
Through boundaries and support.

Execute
Move forward without abandoning yourself.

The R.I.S.E.™ Method is built from lived experience, education, reflection, faith, and the continuing work of healing without losing myself along the way.

I have not arrived at some final destination of healing. I am still confronting difficult truths, learning, growing, and caring for the parts of myself that are still being restored.

The difference is that I stopped waiting for my life to become perfect before using what I have learned to help someone else.

Healing and building were never meant to wait on each other.

I am a wife, daughter, sister, guardian, author, advocate, entrepreneur, scholar, and woman of faith.

I earned my bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, with concentrations in Organizational Leadership, Business Management, and Industrial Psychology, graduating with a 3.97 GPA. I begin my MBA in Fall 2026 because this work deserves everything I can bring to it.

But much of what I know did not come from a classroom.

It came from surviving the silence I now work to interrupt. It came from confronting hard truths within my own family, learning to establish a boundary and mean it, and turning what once made me feel powerless into education, advocacy, resources, and action.

I do not want to be remembered only as someone who survived childhood sexual abuse.

I want to be remembered as the woman who refused to allow it to have the final word—the woman who reclaimed her voice and built the resources she once needed but did not have.

I am helping children receive language that can help them recognize unsafe behavior and speak up.

I am helping adults become more informed, intentional, and prepared protectors.

I am helping women understand that healing does not require abandoning themselves.

What happened to me does not get to decide who I become. I made sure of that.

And as I continue doing my own healing work, I am using what I have learned to help change the narrative for those coming behind me.

Nothing will be wasted.

Heal. Rise. Reclaim.

I bring this work into churches, community organizations, child-advocacy spaces, podcasts, parent and caregiver programs, women’s events, and age-appropriate presentations for children and youth.

I am available for paid speaking engagements, workshops, panels, interviews, educational presentations, and community partnerships on:

• Childhood body safety and prevention
• Preparing trusted adults for the conversations that matter
• Turning pain into purpose without allowing trauma to become your identity
• Healing, boundaries, faith, identity, and reclamation
• The ongoing work of moving forward after abuse, adversity, and loss

Every engagement is tailored to the audience, event format, and desired outcome. Fees vary based on presentation length, customization, location, travel, audience size, and event needs.

Limited sponsored or community-partnership opportunities may be considered at my discretion.