BEFORE THE BROKEN ONE

A mother's story about love, loss and the signs that remain.

No mother imagines she will ever write about the loss of her own children.
It isn’t a story we prepare for, or even allow ourselves to think might one day be ours.
And yet my life became shaped by three losses, each one leaving its own quiet ache, its own shadow I had to learn to walk beside.
I began writing not to be brave, but to stay connected — to keep them close in the only way left to me.
These words became a place to set down what my heart could no longer carry alone.
They are pieces of love, memory, and longing gathered carefully, so that what remains can still be held with tenderness.
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Second Run Whispers

When I finished writing Before the Broken One, I thought I had no more words to offer. The pages had poured out of me in a rush, as though they were waiting all along, and I closed that book believing it was the end of what I could say.
But life has a way of surprising us. Morning by morning, as I sat with tea on the sheltered deck, wrapped in a gingham wrap, listening to the jays and crickets, words began to return. Not heavy with despair, but light with comfort. Not a cry this time, but a whisper.
Will be published in February 2026

Journals - The Whispers Collection

The Seasonal Whisper CollectionThere are moments in every season that seem to pause the heart — a colour, a scent, a small turning of light that asks us to notice.
These journals were created for those moments… the ones that slip between the hours and would disappear if we didn’t gather them gently.
Spring’s first tremble of newness.
Summer’s warm hum and long shadows.
Autumn’s quiet surrender.
Winter’s soft hush and healing stillness.
Each journal is a place to set down the whispers of a season — the thoughts, blessings, remembrances, and fragile truths that arrive when we slow ourselves enough to listen.These books are companions to the stories I write, and perhaps to the ones you are still discovering within yourself.Coming in 2026