To share her life story, experiences, and her hard won wit and wisdom to illuminate the journey for others. And, also to share how she discovered self-love, self-acceptance, self-approval, and self-value from the abuse and neglect of her childhood that led unspeakable pain turn to anger that turned to rage that lead to self-hatred.Her father died when she was fourteen, and the youngest child was one year old. He left no money, no insurance, and no social security because he never filed, only debt.
She went on to become a nurse because she could work twenty four hours a day and seven days a week and she would be able to help her Mother and younger brothers and sisters which she did..
She worked at some of the best hospitals in the world, Duke Medical Center in the Recovery Room, UC Davis in the Intensive Care Unit, and UCLA Medical in the Neonatal Intensive Care for a total of twenty years.In Los Angeles, she found the courage to begin a journey of self-discovery and where she began to travel abroad. Taking stock in herself, she realized, she was very good at working and taking care others, leaving myself behind.
While in therapy, she was told to write her feelings which burgeoned into a One-Woman docudrama," I Wanna Tell You My Story" that she performed around the country and in 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey at the United Nations last conference of the century. It was later published as a book that can be purchased on Amazon.com.
Then she went on to write and performed with seven other women," Calling to the Village," before a hometown audience receiving enthusiastic applause.
Three and a half years ago, she embarked on a personal journey concerning her long neglected health. Now on the road to recovery, she is slowly making her way back to health and well-being, writing her last project about her journey to a new found sense of self and renewed self-love and self- worth.