The Feral Healing Company

03/13/2026

03/05/2026

I am in a bit of a conundrum.

Though I have been writing most of my life, I am just in the last few months started taking my writing seriously and sharing it publicly. I am currently sending in submissions to writing contests and magazines with the hope of one day having my writing published. I am also currently working on my memoir. A story of tragedy and loss. It goes through the grief that I experienced after losing pretty much my entire family. This will be my first published book. Essentially in the writing world right now I am a nobody. I’m okay with that.

Today while doing some research I discovered that there are like 7 other writers with my same name! One of which is a well known coach and author who writes about- you guessed it- trauma from loss.

She even has my exact same initials!!! Ugh! Curse you parents for giving me such a common name!!

After contemplating on this for a bit, I think I’ve made the decision that I am going to write under a pen name from here on out. I have one I’ve used in the past and as far as I can find, no other author is using it.

So if you see some changes happening on my substack, website, and other place please know this is why. It's still me, just writing under a pen. Please be patient as I sort this all out. It was not a choice I thought I was going to have to make before today, but it feels aligned going forward. Thanks everyone. Happy Thursday!

03/04/2026

This weekend I had the privilege of attending a really cool writing event here in Manistique! Check out my experience below!

A Gathering of Booklovers and Authors

03/02/2026

Writing Update!

I’m not exactly sure how to start this. A year ago when I started writing my book, I was broken. I spent a year writing short pieces that I hoped would one day lead to a cohesive book that I could somehow tie into my career as a coach. I kept thinking that if I was going to do this, then I had to ...

02/27/2026

I created a list of things that brought joy to my week. I hope these things bring a smile to your face as well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/becomingferal/p/things-that-spark-joy-this-week?r=5i6x7l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/26/2026

Someone asked me recently: “Do you think sometimes we build things just to prove how strong we are?”

Oof. That hit me like a ton of bricks straight to the chest. Because yes. Yes, we do. Yes I have. And in doing so I learned so many hard lessons.

So here’s the story.

https://open.substack.com/pub/becomingferal/p/i-built-a-life-that-looked-strong?r=5i6x7l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/25/2026

I have been contemplating a lot these last few days on the journey that brought me to writing this book. It has been such a long tangled journey of growth, transformation, pivots, and if I’m being honest with you- ADHD mania.

But now that I am in the thick of it, writing daily, it blows my freaking mind that the thing, the thing that finally feels right and aligned for me, the thing that calms my nervous system, and brings joy and peace, is the exact same thing that helped me survive all of the hard stuff all along. Writing is how I survived as a teenager. I wrote everything! I journaled, I wrote short stories, I wrote poems about boys who would never love me. And a few about the boy who still does.

As an adult that writing transformed into blogging, writing blog-style social media posts, starting books that would never be finished. Yet, here I am now at forty years old, still writing. Still holding hope that my words will help heal. The transformation though is that I no longer write just for myself. I write for you and that dear readers is my favorite pivot of all!

What I am trying to say is that there is nothing wrong with pivoting at any point in your life. There is nothing wrong with outgrowing parts of ourselves that no longer fit. And there is nothing wrong with coming back to the parts that do and aligning them with who you are now.

So today, I would like to offer this question to you:

“If nothing stood in your way, what would you spend your life doing?”

Let me know in the comments!

02/25/2026

I touched on this a bit last week, but here is a more in-depth piece that I wrote over on Substack to explain what has been going on over the past few months.

📸 Photo Credit: Janelle Yeager Photography

https://open.substack.com/pub/becomingferal/p/where-ive-been?r=5i6x7l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/22/2026

Writing update!
I am currently going through my 2nd draft of my debut book that has basically become a re-write 🥴
As I read through the things I wrote last year, I am seeing that many of the sections were written from a place of anger and a very unhealed nervous system.
Now that I have gone through this process of healing many of the triggers I once carried I am writing from a completely different place. To be honest, I am very proud of what this project is becoming.
My goal is to complete and publish this work during 2026, so I will be spending lots of time and energy on it.
In a moment of bravery, I submitted the introduction of my book to a writing group on FB and received my first bit of feedback!
I'm so excited to share more of this journey with y'all as it happens.
Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement as I navigate a terrifying yet gratifying journey!!

02/18/2026

This weather is a perfect time to cozy up with a warm cup of coffee and making some progress in my manuscript.

Stay safe out there loves! It's nasty out!

02/11/2026

It's been a while since I've done any type of update for y'all. I've received several messages of "where did you go?" And honestly I didn't have a real answer to that.

At the end of November I decided to take a step back from all social media. I had seen a lot of growth on many of my platforms , but the toll it was taking on my mental health was not good. I was putting an insane amount of pressure on myself to show up on here every day and I've realized that for me that just isn't sustainable.

So I took probably the biggest step back that I ever have. Around the same time, I also got super sick. I battled a total of 7 infections in a matter of 6 weeks. The last of which is just now clearing up (a tooth abscess that I wouldn't have wished on my worse enemy! It resulted in having to have the tooth pulled which has FINALLY cleared the abscess after literal months!!) So not only was my mental health s**t, but my physical health was taking a toll as well.

During this break, I used my ever present creative energy to write. I've been making progress on my book for the first time in quite a while and I really love the direction it is headed.

I have a desire to put this book out into the world in 2026. What that means is that many things need to be put on hold as I focus my time and energy on this. What does that mean for The Feral Healing Company? I still plan to host some healing events on our property this year and speak at a limited number of events. But outside of that and maybe a few fun things I decide to offer through my website, writing is going to be my primary focus this year.

I have been writing and posting weekly to my blog throughout this break and have truly enjoyed that. I'm not quite ready to share that writing on social media yet. For now it still feels too sacred. I hope you can understand.

So that's the update for now. Please enjoy this photo of my chaotic writing process from this week. The book is starting to take form and that's really exciting, but this week I printed all of my work, looked at it, and said "WTF am I even doing 🥴"

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10/26/2025

Iiiiiiiiiiiits Spooky Season Bi***es!