The Scoop

Nice to meet you.
Let’s be vulnerable together.

So glad you dropped by.

If you’re reading this, you probably know a thing or two about adversity. If you’re not sure what adversity is, it’s defined as a state of hardship, difficulty, or misfortune that one deals with in life.

All of the words I share here are meant to encourage vulnerability, honesty and self-compassion. I wish the entire world would just live in a judgement-free zone. So in the meantime, that is the world I will try and create.

My mom passed away from a brain tumor in 2002 when I was 10 years old. I didn’t talk about my loss until I was in my mid-twenties and met Cara Belvin, the founder of empowerHER, a nonprofit organization that serves girls + young women who experience the loss of their mothers.

I’ve spent the past several years working alongside Cara (and other badass women) to serve girls of mother-loss from around the globe.

Watching my mom get sick and pass away at that young of age was brutal, but the years after were pretty much worse than the event itself. Like how are you expected to just go about your life. Trauma doesn’t just “fade out” and God forbid anyone were to acknowledge grief and loss (at no fault to them, it’s just the world we live in). Loss is uncomfortable for many and it’s just safer and easier not to mention it. Eventually the trauma gets projected in other ways… both good & bad. It’s been a long road but a beautiful one.

Stories here vary from loss and grief to major life changes and relationships, self-acceptance and everything else in between.