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Weaving stories of walking through the fires of trauma, adversity, and poverty, while showing that we all are connected by our human experiences. We are, if nothing else, all a culmination of one another's stories, after all. We're all humans who have the audacity to heal.

Using my story of surviving childhood trafficking to rich doctors (and other wealthy members of rural WV) and how it led to marrying a psychopath to educate others about the dangers of unresolved childhood trauma is a passion of mine. As the great, great, great, great granddaughter of Devil Anse Hatfield of WV (of the infamous Hatfield and McCoy's feud), I not only inherited immense resilience, but also a plethora of generational trauma. Through storytelling medicine, I'll share with you the details of my personal story in an effort to educate and disrupt the cycle of child trafficking. I'll ...

Addiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful intoxication of a pint of vodka, that electric energy from a line of cocaine, over time leaves you with a cold loneliness and a bitter heart. Relationships destroyed, bodies deteriorate, loved ones lost, yet the craving continues for that which is killing us—living, as the title suggests, like an Orphan of Bliss.