My books form a practical and deeply personal body of work around one central question:
What helps human beings become whole?
Together, these books reflect the heart of Making Space to Heal: creating safe, trustworthy, transparent conditions where children can be loved, wounded people can recover agency, and caregivers can serve without losing coherence.

I Was Loved names the love that forms us. It offers parents and caregivers a trauma-informed, resilience-building vision for creating the conditions children need to grow with safety, dignity, and emotional strength.

Finding Everland names the truth that frees us. It walks with those recovering from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and high-control religious environments toward voice, lament, agency, and authentic spiritual life.

The Coherent Rhythm of Care names the rhythm that sustains us. It supports caregivers, helpers, leaders, parents, and those entrusted with the dignity of others who need a way to care without shame, martyrdom, or self-erasure.
I write to give language to what people often carry without words.
Some wounds begin in childhood. Some are carried through religious systems that confused authority with safety. Some come from years of caring for others while quietly losing access to one’s own limits, agency, and rhythm.
My books are written from lived experience, trauma-informed practice, salutogenic reflection, and a deep commitment to human dignity. They are not written to rush people toward answers. They are written to make space for truth, repair, agency, and the next faithful step.
Each book serves a different doorway into the same larger work: helping people and those who care for them recover coherence after adversity.
These books are not distant theories. They are lived, field-tested reflections from someone who has traveled the terrain they map.
If you are responsible for another person’s safety, care, guidance, healing, formation, or dignity, this book is for you.
The Coherent Rhythm of Care is a field guide for helpers, caregivers, leaders, parents, and those who serve others. It begins with a simple conviction:
You do not need to become heroic. You need a coherent rhythm of care.
Grounded in trauma-informed and salutogenic practice, this book helps readers return to clarity, capacity, and calling without shame, hustle, martyrdom, or self-erasure. It is written for real days when care is costly, and the need is close.
Care is not only what we do. It is the presence we bring, the pace we carry, the boundaries we keep, and the repair we practice.
What readers will find:
Soon to be released on Amazon
- Michael P., COO, People Leader, Fortune 500 Healthcare Company
- Blanca Acosta, Executive Director, Constructing Circles of Peace
- Trudy M. Johnson, PhD, LMFT, ACCTS
- Patricia L. Kirkland, Assistant Director, Arizona Head Start Association
- Henry DeVall, Father and Family Man of Adoptive Children
- Patrick Sullivan Jr., Co-Founder of Jigsaw Health
Finding Everland is for those recovering from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, institutional betrayal, and high-control religious environments.
It is written for people who still carry spiritual hunger, but can no longer deny the harm done in the name of faith. It gives language for grief, anger, confusion, lament, identity displacement, and the difficult work of rebuilding trust after religious harm.
This is not a devotional that rushes healing. It is not an academic commentary detached from lived pain. It is a companion text for those seeking voice, agency, dignity, and authentic spiritual life after harm.
Recognition of religious harm without requiring abandonment of spiritual hunger.
What readers will find:
I Was Loved begins with a simple question:
What helps a child grow up with enough safety, connection, dignity, and support to become resilient?
Written in response to the question raised by the ACEs movement—how can we prevent adverse childhood experiences before they occur?—this book offers parents and caregivers ten guiding statements that help create environments where children can be loved in action, not sentiment alone.
This is trauma-informed and salutogenic parenting. It focuses not only on preventing harm, but on strengthening what supports wellness, wholeness, attachment, agency, and resilience.
What parents and caregivers will find:

I Was Loved protects the child.
Finding Everland restores the wounded soul.
The Coherent Rhythm of Care sustains the caregiver.
Together, they ask:
This is the work of Making Space to Heal.
Making Space to Heal, LLC
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