BOOKS
Stories That Challenge. Research That Serves.
Books can help us understand ourselves, question what we have inherited, and imagine healthier ways to live, lead, and serve.
My writing explores leadership, identity, healing, family, trust, and what it means to remain human.
Every book begins with one purpose: to start conversations that continue long after the final page.
FEATURED BOOK
Permission to Break
A Memoir of Strength, Silence, and Softness
For years, I was known as the strong one. A police officer. A leader. A mother. The person others depended on.
But strength can quietly become survival.
Permission to Break is a memoir about what happens when strength becomes both an identity and a burden, and the discovery that vulnerability is not weakness, healing is not failure, and softness is not the opposite of strength.
An invitation to stop carrying what no longer serves us and make room for who we are becoming.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for anyone who has ever:
Been the person everyone depended on.
Carried grief while appearing fine.
Struggled to ask for help.
Wondered who they were beyond survival.
Longed to choose healing without losing their strength.
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
The final page doesn't have to be the end of the conversation.
Download a free discussion guide designed for:
Book clubs
Schools and universities
Leadership teams
Community organizations
REQUEST IT AT YOUR LIBRARY
Permission to Break is available through Ingram and is part of the Multnomah County Library collection.
If your local library doesn't yet carry the book, consider requesting it through your library's "Suggest a Purchase" program.
Every request helps another reader discover the story.
MORE BOOKS
What We Owe Our Sons
Parenting, Protection, and the Price of Survival
Calls us to raise the next generation with intention by examining what we model, protect, and pass forward.
Coming April 2027
