My Story

I started my own healing journey in my early 20s after the death of a close friend. This was the moment I realized I had been living on auto-pilot and wanted so much more for my life, but didn’t know where to begin. Healing from grief led me to heal from so much more including childhood trauma, repressed memories, rape, sexual assault, and family dynamics. 

As a rape survivor, I know first hand how daunting and overwhelming the healing journey can feel. I used to be depressed, anxious, and suicidal, but I have transformed my life to one of freedom, happiness, and peace.

When my memories returned of being raped in my childhood and teen years, I felt so confused and lost. I felt as though I was going crazy, and felt really alone and misunderstood. As I began talking about my trauma, my family, friends, and therapists told me these were things I would never get over and would just have to learn how to live with. When I was at my breaking point, I decided this old point of view was unacceptable and I embarked on finding a new view on healing. I dedicated my life to healing and to learning how to love myself. 

I began a long and daunting path of healing from rape, grief, alcohol dependency, childhood trauma, and more. It didn’t happen overnight, but over time I began to feel better. I learned my emotions were not “wrong” or a form of punishment but were actually the road map for how to heal. The more I embraced my difficult feelings, the better I began to feel. Through processing my trauma and grief, I began to feel more connected to myself, my inner wisdom, and my heart. I began to connect back to my truth, rather than the lies I had been telling myself.

I believe it is possible to heal from anything including trauma, abuse, addictions, and overwhelming feelings such as anxiety and depression, but oftentimes we don’t know where to begin. I created New View Advice to offer guidance on the healing journey because it is a community I wish had existed as I went through my darkest days. I believe you have all the answers you seek, you just may need a little guidance and a new view along the way. 

What started out as a podcast has evolved into a resource hub for people on the healing journey.  My intention is to offer free and affordable resources for the healing journey because I know firsthand how difficult and expensive healing from trauma can be and I don’t think that should be the case.