I'm a PTSD specialist, author, artist, actress, playwright, creator, TEDx speaker, and Detourist.
I grew up believing that my entire life would be dedicated to the performing arts. Now, I'm also a survivor and "thriver" of sexual abuse, 27 surgeries, coma, organ failure, and the PTSD that comes from ten years of trauma – or what I now call my “beautiful detour."
At 18, years old, a blood clot caused my body to go into septic shock. I was in a coma for six months, and after a total gastrectomy, I was unable to eat or drink a drop of water for six of the past ten years. After 27 more...
