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Writing Coaching and "Between the Wines" Book Club & Writing Circle
As an author, teacher of writing, and expressive writing and narrative medicine researcher and coach, I help others navigate complex, difficult experiences, find their voice, and transform their writing into polished, publishable prose or keepsakes to pass down to friends and family to help heal intergenerational trauma.
Individual Therapeutic Writing Coaching
One-on-one trauma-informed writing coaching for those ready to write their way toward healing, clarity, or to develop "messy" pages and "shitty first drafts" into polished prose to submit for publication or have as a keepsake for friends and family.
Sessions available on my farm or virtually.
To book a free consultation, click here.
"Between the Wines" Book Club & Writing Circle
Once a month (schedule determined by circle), we will meet virtually (glass o' vino optional) for an hour(ish) to discuss a memoir or narrative nonfiction book with contemporary relevance and I will facilitate a short narrative medicine writing workshop thereafter. Cost is $10. Limited to 12 members per circle.
To sign up, click here and a Zoom link will be provided to you.
Guest-Lectures, Talks, and Narrative Medicine Workshops
Workshops and training for medical professionals, caregivers, patients, care teams, community organizations, colleges and universities designed to restore empathy, deepen connection, or strengthen memoir craft. Through close reading, directed expressive writing exercises, and shared reflection, participants will find their voice and develop the confidence to tell their stories.
Learn more here.
Change your story, change your life.
Welcome friend – we're all mad here.
I spent decades studying how language works. Then life handed me a curriculum I hadn't planned: the death of a birth mother I'd never get to meet, a broken engagement, a bipolar II diagnosis, and a beloved farm COVID forced me to abandon. Writing was the center that held. Now I bring that same practice to others: evidence-based, trauma-informed, and rooted in the belief that telling our stories changes us at the cellular level.
I hold a Ph.D in Composition & Rhetoric from the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); an M.A. in both Literature and Creative Writing from Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, NY) and Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom), and an undergraduate degree in Journalism from Florida Southern (Lakeland, Florida).
I am a professor at Appalachian State University and have taught courses and workshops in Narrative Medicine, basic and advanced writing, and creative nonfiction and have spent over a decade developing innovative curricula and conducting mixed-methods research at the intersections of environmental and food justice, narrative medicine and trauma-informed writing instruction. I have over 20 scholarly and creative publications to my name.
Additionally, I am completing a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification accredited by the Yoga Alliance and am trained in the Arenas for Change "Seen through Story" methodology, which integrates equines and the environment into therapeutic settings. I am a member of the Narrative Mindworks, the leading international narrative practices association and an avid meditator who uses aspects of secular mindfulness in my work with others.
All of my services are available virtually but for those who want face-to-face consulting or would benefit from a nature-based writing environment, you are invited to my 13-acre care farm in East Tennessee. On the farm I am able to utilize principles from horticultural and equine-assisted modalities to further enhance outcomes for my clients, but interaction with my two spoiled mini-donkeys – Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – or plants is strictly optional. I also partner with several local integrative medicine practitioners coming from traditional and nontraditional medical paradigms and Wise Woman traditions.
Partners
