Healing is not linear.

When I first sat down to write Because of Jane , I didn’t begin with a plan. I had started and restarted this story a million times in different ways. But then I saw her sitting in the corner. I began with a presence. Her name was Jane. She had always been there, quiet, waiting on the edge of the bed or tucked into the corner of a room. She was the one thing that never asked me to explain myself. Never asked me to be brave. Never asked me to be quiet, either. So when the sto

There are moments when reading a memoir feels less like reading someone else’s story and more like being quietly given permission to tell your own. Reading If You Would Have Told Me was one of those moments for me. While John Stamos’s life story is not the same as mine, the courage it took for him to speak openly about some of the hardest parts of his life, with raw honesty and without hiding behind perfection, was incredibly powerful. There was something deeply beautiful in