I wrote this book for all women, especially mothers, who arrive in the middle of the road of their lives, suddenly lost, far away from the woman they once knew themselves to be and the places they once called home.
About Me
After 15 years spent working in sales and marketing for the hottest tech companies in the Bay Area, I left the glamorous California tech scene, sold everything I owned and moved my young family to Vienna, Austria in search of a different way of life.
I imagined our journey relocating to the beautiful Sound of Music country might someday be worthy of its own Eat Pray Love-style travel memoir (starring a middle-aged mom!). But after a startling breast cancer diagnosis two years into our new life, the music suddenly stopped.
My debut memoir, ME, A NAME I CALL MYSELF was born from one of my life’s greatest plot twists and the inner heroine’s journey I took in the period that followed. It is a collection of stories written from the middle of the uncharted path I embarked on in order to reignite my crumpled spirit and to find ways to come alive again, one slow step at a time, in the daily life I had in front of me.
Me, A Name I Call Myself chronicles this period of my life that I committed to replacing dis-ease with ease, to ruthlessly going after joy and beauty as a form of medicine and to prioritizing my wholeness as much as my wellness.
It was born from my commitment to getting to know all the versions of myself that live within me and to honor the woman I am still becoming. Above all, after life pulled me very far away, this is my journey of coming home to myself.
