I help people release emotional blocks to become their happiest, healthiest, and most creative selves.

I’m the award-winning and bestselling author of five books, which have been translated into 20 languages. My work has been featured in The Washington Post, Cosmo, Good Morning America, CNN, National Geographic, CBS, The Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Daily News, Oprah Daily, and more.

I’m most well-known for my memoir, This is How I Save My Life (Simon and Schuster, 2018) and my popular How To Heal Yourself book series. But I’m also an enthusiastic traveler who writes about how exploring our own neighborhoods and destinations around the world help us discover who we really are. My most recent book, Out In The World, is a co-authored LGBTQIA+ travel guide with National Geographic. And because I don’t know when to stop, my debut Young Adult novel comes out in 2026.

But before all that, I was just a girl trying to figure out how to help myself. 

After surviving almost a decade with debilitating illness (chronic Lyme disease, autoimmune issues, and more), I’m grateful for my complete recovery—and the ability to use my experience to help others.

Through my journey, I’ve found my own version of being healed—living in a healthy body while also sometimes losing complete Zen-like perspective, binging on gluten, and temporarily forgetting all the important life lessons I’ve learned. Except for this: being human is so much better than trying to be perfect.

I have now been healthy for over a decade (hooray). My greatest work is connecting with, and helping others—and offering hope for a path forward. 

My monthly healing classes guide people through my signature energy therapy techniques to release stuck emotions, subconscious beliefs, and other energy holding them back.

I also teach my signature writing program to help writers break through inner blocks, worry less, and get a first draft of their book done in as little as 15 minutes a day.

And as a former Marketing Director for Harley-Davidson, and someone who built my own successful business from scratch (with no college degree), I teach my method of building a business, authentically to heart-centered entrepreneurs all over the world.

I live with my beautiful wife and our bad cat in New York City, where we spend most of our time planning our next meals, next adventures, or watching the next episode of The Golden Girls for the thousandth time.