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5 Activities to Do with Your Kids this Summer

Schools out for summer (cue Alice Cooper) which can bring a love/hate experience for parents. On one hand, you're excited to be done with another year of scholastic hustle & bustle and dress up days but on the other hand, now you have to figure out filling in the...

Burnout: Identifying, Treating, and Preventing

Burnout Definition: "A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by long term involvement in emotionally demanding situations." – Ayala Pines and Elliot Aronson Work, family, school, and social life. These are just a few factors that can contribute to...

When Sports Begin to Die Out for Girls

I first picked up a softball when I was seven years old and never put it down. I fell in love with sports. In middle school it kept me busy. In high school it kept me out of trouble. I continued my passion to play into adulthood and try to stay active today. Softball,...

Rainy Days

As Echo and I watch the rain play a game of tippety tap with the outside world, I’m reminded of my love of the sound of rain. Being wet in it? No. Having to do anything IN it? Also no.  I remember as a child, in the house on Seville, anytime it rained I would grab an...

I am so excited to reveal the new cover design for Group. Zoe Mellors did an amazing job creating this cover and I couldn’t be happier to share it with you all. I am looking at a re-launch time of Fall 2020 for this book and I hope you enjoy the new version.

The Juarez twins were inseparable until Jade’s untimely death at the age of seventeen. Catapulted into a new and unfamiliar world, group sessions became Jade’s key to progressing. But one issue stands in her way…remembering facts surrounding her death. Her journey to unravel these details meets her head on with revelations about herself she cannot fathom.

Having been left alone without her sister and best friend, Pearl spirals into an abyss of crushing grief and depression. Reluctant to attend a support group session, she meets a stranger who turns her world upside down and ignites a love she has never felt before in another man. But she wonders if it is enough for her to heal? Can the bond between two sisters survive the throes of death, grief, love, and everything in between?