I create guided therapeutic journals for the relationships that shape us — from family bonds to the animals who become family. With a background in both law and family therapy, I've learned that healing requires both honesty and compassion. Turns out, that's also the recipe for a really good relationship with your dog.
The Our Memories for Keeps™ series was born from witnessing too many people stuck in painful cycles they didn't choose — and believing they deserve better tools than "just try harder." These journals exist because every family deserves the chance to transform inherited pain into conscious love, and because the work of breaking cycles shouldn't feel like homework you dread.
With a background in both law — where documentation reveals truth — and family therapy, where emotional patterns shape lives, I've learned that healing requires both honesty and compassion. These two disciplines don't seem like they belong together. They do. The law taught me that what goes unrecorded gets lost. Therapy taught me that what goes unexamined gets repeated. The journals sit at that exact intersection.
Here's something I'll admit freely: I am utterly, unapologetically devoted to animals. Always have been. I believe the bond between people and their pets is one of the most honest relationships we'll ever have — they don't care about your unread emails or your complicated feelings about your mother. They just show up, every single time. That kind of love inspired The Intentional Pet Parent series, journals for people who want to be as conscious and present with their animal companions as they are with the humans they're busy healing alongside.
When I'm not creating journals, I'm baking elaborate birthday cakes for the kids in my life, experimenting with bread recipes that occasionally turn out exactly as planned (occasionally), and crouching in the garden with my kids to admire frogs who clearly have no interest in being admired — but we do it anyway, because that's what wonder looks like up close.
Every journal in the series is part of the same belief: that the patterns we inherit don't have to be the patterns we pass on. That awareness is the first act of change. That the next generation deserves the version of us we're actively choosing to become — not just the one our own upbringing defaulted us into.
"Every family deserves the chance to transform inherited pain into conscious love — and the work of breaking cycles shouldn't feel like homework you dread."
Each one is a small act of courage. A place to be honest. A record of who you were, who you're becoming, and the love you're choosing to build — on purpose.