Living With Secrets: Understanding Trauma & The Healing Journey

Living With Secrets is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of the truths we bury and the strength it takes to unearth them. In this deeply personal and emotionally resonant journey, readers are invited into the quiet corners of lives shaped by silence, where secrets linger like shadows and healing begins only when light is let in. With heartbreak and revelation, the story unfolds with raw honesty, tracing a path from betrayal and shame to forgiveness and grace. Living With Secrets is not just about what's hidden, it's about what's possible. It's about finding the courage to confront the past, the resilience to rebuild and the wisdom to move forward. Whether the secrets are yours or someone else's, this book reminds us that healing doesn't come from forgetting, it comes from understanding. Perfect for anyone who has ever felt the weight of unspoken truths, this is a guide to redemption, hope and the ability to live free of your secrets. Book has enclosed journal to utilize prompts to begin your journey.

Living With Secrets: The Courage to Rewrite Your Story is a powerful and compassionate guide for those navigating the aftermath of trauma, post-traumatic stress, and PTSD. Written from the perspective of a survivor, this book doesn’t just speak to survival—it speaks to reclamation.
With unflinching honesty and deep empathy, the author walks alongside readers on a journey of healing, offering a hand to those who feel unseen, broken, or cast aside. Through personal stories and hard-won wisdom, she illuminates a path toward wholeness—one where the past does not define the future, and where courage becomes the compass for rewriting your story.

Living With Secrets: The Courage to Rewrite Your Story

The Shape of Life, a fictional story, is a deeply moving novel about trauma, resilience, and the quiet power of love. It follows Lila Baker, a former Army nurse haunted by war and loss, who returns to her childhood cabin in Stillwater, Colorado after the sudden death of her sister Natalie. As Lila reconnects with the community her sister built—a village of healing, laughter, and belonging—she begins to confront the grief she buried long ago.
Through journal entries, memory, and the steady presence of her dog Cooper, Lila discovers that healing isn’t about forgetting—it’s about remembering differently. Spanning decades and anchored in themes of service, chosen family, and the legacy of love, The Shape of Life is a tender tribute to those who carry invisible wounds and the communities that help them find peace.

The Shape of Life

In This Moment: A Yearlong Journey into Healing, Boundaries, and Belonging is a transformative guide designed to gently accompany readers through 52 weeks of self-discovery and growth. Blending research and wisdom with creative reflection, it offers:

• Weekly prompts, affirmations, and sensory check-ins to foster emotional awareness and resilience

• Practical exercises for setting compassionate boundaries and reclaiming personal agency

• Rituals and reflections that honor grief, joy, and the power of chosen family

• A narrative arc that moves from self-compassion to courageous connection, helping readers build a life rooted in authenticity and hope

This journal is more than a tool—it’s a companion for anyone seeking to heal, reconnect with their inner truth, and cultivate belonging in every season of life.

In This Moment: A Year Long Mindfulness Journal for Healing, Boundaries, and Belonging

Dear Anxiety, it’s not me — it’s definitely you.
Anxiety has been your clingiest relationship — showing up uninvited, whispering worst-case scenarios, and refusing to leave. But it’s time to call it what it is: toxic. In Dear Anxiety, We Need to Break Up, Cara delivers a hilarious yet heartfelt breakup letter to the world’s most persistent ex. With humor, evidence-based tools, and a dash of sass, this book helps you kick Anxiety out of the driver’s seat and reclaim your life. Equal parts pep talk and practical guide, it’s proof that healing doesn’t have to be heavy — sometimes the best medicine is laughter, honesty, and a well-timed eye roll.

DEAR ANXIETY, WE NEED TO BREAK UP: Time to Ditch Panic & Reclaim My Power

This book is a raw, honest, and deeply human exploration of what trauma does to the people who run toward danger while everyone else runs away. It speaks directly to first responders, veterans, and anyone who has spent years carrying the weight of other people’s worst moments — often at the cost of their own wellbeing.
Across twenty‑five chapters, the book dismantles the myths of toughness, invincibility, and emotional suppression that dominate uniformed professions. It reveals the hidden identity crisis that happens when the job becomes the only version of yourself you recognize, and the quiet, devastating toll that chronic stress, trauma exposure, and emotional labor take on the body and mind.
The early chapters illuminate the slow erosion of self — the hypervigilance, the numbness, the exhaustion, the pain, the loss of joy, the shrinking of your world. They name the burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional collapse that so many experience but rarely talk about. They validate the fear, shame, and silence that keep people from reaching out, and they expose the systemic barriers that make healing harder than it needs to be.
But this book is not about despair.
It’s about truth — and the possibility that comes after truth.

The S#!t We Don't Talk About: But Should

Healing In the Line of Duty: A First Responder's Guide to Healing and Recovery

Healing in the Line of Duty offers first responders and their families essential tools for navigating trauma recovery, emphasizing the importance of open communication, mindfulness, and community support. By integrating trauma-informed practices and fostering resilience, this guide empowers individuals to reclaim their mental health and well-being. Through shared experiences and personal stories, it highlights the transformative experience from trauma to healing, reminding readers they are not alone in their journey,

Cold Harbor

Former FBI profiler Lexi Buckley came to Cold Harbor, Alaska to disappear into a smaller life. Two years in, she has mostly succeeded. She runs the inlet road at dawn, consults remotely on bloodless fraud cases, and has made an uneasy peace with the knowledge that the work she was built for is behind her.

Then a woman is found dead at the base of the north bluffs.

Sara McCallum was a third-grade teacher who had been quietly mapping something she shouldn't have — property transfers, fishing permits, a decade of quiet consolidation along the Alaskan shoreline. The sheriff calls it an accident. The ground tells a different story. And Lexi, who has spent twenty-two years learning to read what others overlook, cannot unknow what she sees.

As she and Sheriff Nate Holloway pull at Sara's thread, they uncover something Cold Harbor has been built around for ten years: a powerful man, a buried secret, and the remains of someone the town was told had simply moved on.

Cold Harbor is a novel about what it costs to see clearly — and what it costs not to. About the places we choose when we need to become smaller, and what happens when the world declines to let us.

Lexi Buckley will not look away.

She never could.