ABOUT ME

Also, a Catholic author, national speaker and mentor with a passion for teaching women the value of suffering so that they can quit trying to escape their cross, and learn to embrace it.

I know. Embrace the cross? Sounds crazy.

I used to think the trials I faced were interruptions to the good life. I was wrong. They are not interruptions in my life, but invitations into Christ’s. But I didn’t always think this way. In fact, I wandered for forty years, and crashed and burned, before I met Jesus. 

Psalm 18:19 sums my life up best: “He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.” When God pulls you out of the pit and sets you in a place of true freedom, for no other reason than He loves you, the only response  that makes any sense at all is to tell the world. 

And so that’s what I do. 

I have worked in ministry for over a decade, helping adult women encounter Jesus Christ through Scripture. In addition, I have authored two books (Our Sunday Visitor), co-authored two devotionals (Walking with Purpose), co-hosted a popular podcast (Hope For Right Now) and Youtube series (Truth with Handles), and served as a keynote speaker at countless women’s conferences, events and retreats across the country. Real and relatable, and always with humor, I offer women practical ways to find hope in hard times, and get excited about diving deeper into their interior life and relationship with God. 

That last part? That’s a big one. Because our attitude towards suffering depends on where we are in our interior life. Nothing is more important than learning to be still before God. It is in the silence that we hear His voice; it is in the quiet where we find the strength to endure the greatest pain. Don’t believe me? That’s okay. I get it. Some crosses feel too much to bear, they become impossible to see over. But as someone who has stood at the foot of the cross, let me assure you: your pain is not pointless, your suffering is your greatest sermon, and there is someone out there whose life depends on your story. 

I look forward to hearing it.