Fierce Boundaries: Somatic Exercises for Healing in a Traumatized World
Healing starts with you. You are enough. You are worthy of care. You are the work.
In a world filled with political turmoil, mental health crises, and environmental destruction, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless. But we can no longer afford to stay numb, hollow, or stuck. Now is the time to reclaim our power, re-inhabit our bodies, and honor the grief in our hearts so we can move forward with clarity, love, and resilience.
This book is a practical and compassionate guide for anyone ready to:
Reclaim their attention and mental real estate.
Heal their relationship with themselves and those around them.
Cultivate agency, resilience, and embodied kindness in the face of adversity.
Set and protect boundaries with strength and compassion.
Find joy, clarity, and purpose amid life’s chaos.
Filled with real-world therapeutic practices and deeply relatable stories, Fierce Boundaries empowers you to wake up, take control of your life, and create a brighter, more compassionate future. This book is not just about surviving—it’s about thriving and being a beacon of hope in challenging times.
Out of Grace: An Extraordinary Journey Through Guatemala’s Haunted Highlands
Guatemala City is officially classified as one of the most dangerous cities in the Americas, where murders make daily headlines, and men hiss at women the same way they hiss at dogs. Here, in the shadow of the country’s many volcanoes, a 22-year-old anthropologist embarks upon her Fulbright research—unraveling the mysteries of the Mayan Highlands, and unexpectedly losing her long-held Christian faith.
After a weekend climb of the Pacaya Volcano turns tragic, the author struggles to shake the helplessness and fear that haunt her. In the midst of searching for a new faith, she discovers the bewildering town of San Pedro la Laguna—a place where Mayan culture collides with globalization and a tourism industry fueled by the drug trade. As she navigates her own spiritual crisis, Cynthia is drawn to explore the haunting beauty of the rugged highlands, the stories of the Tz’utuji’il people, and their connection to the land.
This fast-paced narrative and anthropological field study is at once an adventure, a coming of age story, an exploration of spirituality, and a reflection upon the shadow of fear in all our lives.
Thrown from the Nest: A Memoir of Belonging, Recovery, and Generational Healing after Adoption
About the book:
As an adoptee, all Cynthia has ever wanted is to be the mom she didn’t get to have.
But navigating single motherhood amidst her ex-husband’s mental illness, and his constant accusations and threats of self-harm, is more than her heart can bear. During her final year of classroom teaching, when her daughter is still a toddler, her spirit finally cracks. Within a single semester, she unravels into crippling anxiety, panic attacks, job loss, illness, a back injury that temporarily confined her to a wheelchair, and addiction. Then, when she tries meditation in an effort to make peace with her fears, she is battered by images of violence and pre-verbal memories of men that paralyze her with terror and add fuel to her rage.
When she discovers the intersection of trauma-sensitive mindfulness and somatic psychotherapy, she finally finds effective tools for healing her attachment wounds and her relationship with herself. After symbolically annihilating her mother’s attacker on the dance floor, Cynthia embarks upon a journey of reclaiming her power that takes her to the dream world, through the “death cave,” and into the desert where she comes face to face with the dark masculine inside herself, and an epic battle rages.
Thrown from the Nest is a story about fierce dedication to motherhood that triumphs over abuse and interrupting the cycle of generational trauma by choosing radical kindness, even towards those who have hurt her the most.
Release Date TBD: Currently Seeking Literary Representation