About Us

 

This space started as a platform about anxiety and became something harder to explain.

Sanctuary came out of the darkest period in my life, written the way you write when you need something to move from the place where it just lives in your chest to somewhere you can actually look at it. That's what it was for me. I'm hoping some version of that is what it is for you.

You probably already know a cure for the human condition doesn't exist — that loss, in one form or another, is the great common denominator, and that no list of wellness habits, no matter how sincerely you commit to them, is going to fix that. What does help, at least for me, is getting honest about what it actually looks like to manage anxiety while also being a full person with a life and kids and occasionally terrible judgment, and to find the thing worth paying attention to inside all of it. That's where the gold is. That's what I'm writing toward.

About the Author

I'm an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in HuffPost, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN and The New York Post. I spent six years as editorial director of a faith-based magazine, where I launched a women's publication, wrote my first book and co-hosted a podcast. These days I'm the communications director at my alma mater, where I studied journalism, and I recently added a master's degree in digital marketing and analytics, which I mention only because it's the most surprising thing about me.

I live in East Nashville, which I love with the specific loyalty of someone who chose it deliberately, with my two daughters and a collection of pets mostly named after food. I write about anxiety and loss and starting over because I know all three from the inside, and because the most useful thing I've ever encountered — in a book, in a conversation, anywhere — was something that made me feel like someone else already understood the specific thing I was carrying.

That's what I'm trying to make here. You're welcome to join me.