What if everything you thought defined you — your marriage, your faith, your identity — suddenly fell apart?
I know many of you have crawled and clawed your own road through this — maybe you still are. Maybe you’re in the actual darkest wilderness with it right now.
It happened to me. And this is the story I wanted to tell you. My story of losing everything I thought defined me and emerging on the other side.
AWAKE: A Memoir is my deeply personal, deeply human account of losing everything I thought made me “me” — and the long, hard road to rebuilding a life that felt like mine again. It’s raw. It’s vulnerable. It’s told in real-time vignettes that stretch across four decades of life, love, loss, and ultimately, renewal.
AWAKE isn’t a story of despair; it’s a story of awakening. Of realizing that the life you’ve always wanted doesn’t require permission from anyone else. It’s about shedding the roles that no longer fit, grieving what’s been lost, and stepping into the terrifying, thrilling possibility of a new beginning.
I wrote this book for anyone who has ever stood in the rubble of their life and wondered: What now? For the woman whose roles have shifted overnight, for the one questioning long-held beliefs, for the one aching to break free from old narratives — this book is a hand reaching out to say, You are not alone.
Writing this memoir was excruciating and beautiful. I wrote it with my heart laid bare.
AWAKE: A Memoir comes out on September 23, 2025, but you can preorder your copy here today. It is time to finally live wide awake.
And check out this exclusive feature on AWAKE in People. What an honor.
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