Words
Have the Power
Words
Have the Power
THE BOOKS
THE BOOKS
To Heal.
The right words at the
right moment can
The right words at
the right moment can
change everything.
why these books
There is something that happens when you read a story that mirrors your own. When someone else has the courage to put into words exactly what you've been living. The isolation lifts. The shame loosens. You remember that your story is not a burden — it's the thing that connects you to every other human who has ever loved someone, lost someone, or had to rebuild from the ground up.
My first book Dancing in the Rain was written in the middle of the hardest season of my life — not from the other side, but from inside it. That's what makes it real. And that's why it might be exactly what you need right now.
A story of grief, love and learning to live again.
Dancing in the Rain
Written for anyone who has loved someone deeply and lost them — especially to the kind of loss that doesn't come with a clean narrative. This book holds the story of my brother Cory, the fentanyl crisis that took him, and what we do with love when there's nowhere left for it to go.
available now
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about dancing in the rain
For most of my life, I watched my brother Cory disappear into addiction — and I didn't understand it. I loved him and I was frustrated by him and I was terrified of losing him, often all at the same time. What I didn't know was that there were pieces of his story I had never been given. Pieces that would change everything.
Near the end of his life, Cory chose to use his voice. He sat across from me in a therapy room and began to speak the truths he had been carrying alone — the childhood trauma, the pain beneath the addiction, the parts of himself he had never let anyone see. And something happened in that room that I hadn't expected. We found each other again. The way we had been as kids, before everything got so complicated.
In one of his darkest moments, after an overdose that could have ended everything, Cory made a choice. He decided to start dancing in the rain — to find joy in the storm rather than wait for it to pass. He asked me to join him. And I did.
This book is the story of that journey. Of two siblings navigating addiction, grief, generational trauma, and the terrifying vulnerability of finally being honest with each other. Of the love that held on even when everything else was falling apart. And of what it means to grieve someone you were just beginning to truly know.
For most of my life, I watched my brother Cory disappear into addiction — and I didn't understand it. I loved him and I was frustrated by him and I was terrified of losing him, often all at the same time. What I didn't know was that there were pieces of his story I had never been given. Pieces that would change everything.
Near the end of his life, Cory chose to use his voice. He sat across from me in a therapy room and began to speak the truths he had been carrying alone — the childhood trauma, the pain beneath the addiction, the parts of himself he had never let anyone see. And something happened in that room that I hadn't expected. We found each other again. The way we had been as kids, before everything got so complicated.
In one of his darkest moments, after an overdose that could have ended everything, Cory made a choice. He decided to start dancing in the rain — to find joy in the storm rather than wait for it to pass. He asked me to join him. And I did.
This book is the story of that journey. Of two siblings navigating addiction, grief, generational trauma, and the terrifying vulnerability of finally being honest with each other. Of the love that held on even when everything else was falling apart. And of what it means to grieve someone you were just beginning to truly know.
A book about
Cory.
"Words have the power to crumble someone's foundation — but they also have the power to rebuild it."
— Tiff Carson
Love from readers
I HIGHLY recommend this to ANYONE who has lived with or loved someone who is/was an opiate addict, or any type of addict. This book gives you a look into that type of life but from the other perspective. The side that worries and waits and wonders and tries to love you through it all. It's about not giving up on them. Coming from a recovered opiate addict I can tell you that this book was a real eye opener for me and I felt feelings that I haven't felt for almost 10 years after reading this book and I definitely needed to feel it. [...] You can just feel her emotions. More books need to be written like this.
C-Warriner · Audiobook
What makes her story stand out is how she envelops the whole shattering experience with a huge, unwavering love.
Fiona · GoodReads
The author is a natural storyteller. Her love for her brother and family clearly shows through.
Corrie · GoodReads
Book Two is in Progress!
Book Two, in progress.
Here's the premise: before any of this, our souls lined up in heaven and signed up for earth school. We picked the curriculum. We chose the lessons. And then we got here, looked around, and went — what the f did I sign up for?
Dancing in the Rain was the story of breaking. This one is about breaking open.
It starts where a lot of us start: numb, disconnected, reaching for whatever makes the noise stop. It ends somewhere I genuinely didn't expect to get to — actually connected to my own soul. No religion required.
True stories, from my life and from the podcast. Humor, because life is hard and we might as well laugh.
I'm sharing about the writing process in The Living Room, come hang out with us there.
