Get to know me
I am an author, speaker, ministry leader and a woman of faith. I am a mom to four beautiful girls and have been married for eleven years. I grew up in Boston, MA but Connecticut has been my home for the last 14 years. I have enjoyed speaking at Women’s retreats, small groups, church conferences, celebrate recovery and other gatherings.
I have overcome a lot of adversity, setbacks and pain but discovered that everything I faced drove me to becoming the woman I am today. I battled depression and other forms of mental illness for 20 years of my life, I battled addiction, I experienced physical, verbal and sexual abuse, I was a foster child and I tried to take my life 5 times. Trauma was a part of my story but it wasn’t the end of my story or all of my story. Jesus saw me in the pit and He pulled me out. Jesus helped me see my trauma, my history as my testimony not a life of defeat but a life of victory.
"You are free to be set free."
My Mission
The mission and vision of Refined for a Purpose is to help men, women, teens, children and pretty much everyone come to the revelation that they no longer need to be defined by this world, their “friends”, family, the enemy or themselves. To understand and walk in the truth of who and what God defines them as; sons, daughters, royalty, loved, beautiful, worthy, intelligent and so much more. To be truly defined by God’s truth and as they walk in that truth that it would lead them to Gods purpose for their lives.
The mission is to show people that they no longer have to be defined by what happened to them or what they’ve done. To let “you” know that you’re not alone and that I’ve been there too but you don’t have to stay there. You are free to be set free. The mission is to overcome together and walk in victory together.