About Me

I've believed in God my entire life but everything changed when I met Him personally. In 2022 my 26th birthday was approaching. I lived downtown, had a great job, friends, family and a very full life but inside I felt lost. I lived with hidden shame for things I had been through and choices I made. I often made changes in attempt to better myself but when I failed I found myself worse than when I started. I was my own biggest critic and the negative voices in my head were growing louder. Friends had suggested therapy but I was too scared & prideful to ask for help or bare my soul to anyone. My birthday came, my friends and family all came to my house to celebrate. I woke up the next morning with an overwhelming amount of anxiety and disappointment as I couldn't remember a thing from the night before after drinking too much again. My brother was recently encouraging me in my faith and that morning I felt a significant change in my heart, there was no going back. I started therapy that fall and often the sessions surrounded conversations of my grandmother who passed the year before. She was my best friend and I was still processing that she wasn't with me. My therapist suggested I write a letter to her to share what I would say to her if I could. As I drove down 695 that day, I found myself talking out loud to her on the way. Before I knew it, tears were streaming and I was thanking her for all of the love she had given me. A love so full and unconditional it was hard to compare to. I felt God's presence with me, and my heart filled with peace and gratitude. The drives to therapy quickly turned into conversations and time with the Lord that had more impact on my life than the sessions themselves. The more I invited Him into each aspect of my life the more I saw my own heart change in front of me. My brother baptized me in my mom's backyard in April 2023 surrounded by my family. God has been bringing me closer to Him ever since and I am in awe of it each day.