Now, listen, I only hesitate to share my personal history because its filled with tragedy and I truly don’t like to make pain the star of my life but I believe in full disclosure. So here is the Reader’s Digest condensed version of it. I’ve experienced an abusive relationship, married and divorced young. I became a single mother to a son with Down Syndrome in my twenties and ended up living with my parents. My mother, a salon owner, suffered a stroke that permanently paralyzed her left side causing her to lose her business. With the family home under foreclosure, my father committed suicide forcing me and my special needs son to beg for a place to stay. I remarried in my late twenties only to become a widow in my 40’s. Unprepared to be the sole parent to two pre-teens and a young adult with special needs, I discovered vodka. Yeah, you can imagine. I realized I needed to grieve and mourn the life I didn’t have in a healthier manner. And this is where I decided not to just GO to counseling, but to study all the mental health modalities and help lead others back to their best life. And here we are.