About the Author

I’m a therapist who loves to escape to books with either a duchess or a dragon in it. If it has both, even better. As a trauma therapist, I love the promise of a happy ending.

I love these stories so much that all I want to do is talk about them. In great detail and analyze the characters as if they were real people. And most people don’t want to discuss them at the lengths that I do, hence the making of this blog in the hopes that it will reach others who have so many thoughts about the stories they consume and need an outlet for them.

It took me a long time to make this blog, as it had been a long time since I felt creative or inspired. When I was younger, I was always thinking of stories and writing them. It wasn’t until I found a career I was passionate about and sought out help with for my own mental health during a tough time that I found my way back to creativity and felt inspired again. Counseling helped me so much that I wanted to give that to others. I have similar feelings about art/books/ media.

For a long time, stories had been a happy outlet for me on my worst days and I hope to one day have people who could say that about something that I made. I hope to be hit with an amazing book idea for an epic romantasy series with a duchess protagonist at some point, but until that day I’ll just write here.

I wasn’t always a reader. The only books that captivated me as a child were A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter in adolescence (and still obsessed). I had put this label on myself that I wasn’t bookish and not an academic when in reality, I just hadn’t found what I liked outside of those two series and hadn’t found a subject in school I really liked or excelled at until psychology. I talk about mental health and books and pop culture because for me they are often one and the same. They have provided an oasis for me as not only a source of joy but also peace and comfort.

Previously, I would try popular thriller and murder mysteries and the occasional memoir and find myself not finishing them. It wasn’t until I watched Bridgerton on Netflix that I was interested in reading again because I loved the show and wanted to read the books. On my birthday a couple of years ago, I went to a bookstore with a friend and got Beach Read by Emily Henry and was captivated from the first page. I was at first embarrassed that I liked romance, afraid that it made it seem like I was shallow or unintelligent. When in reality, romance is really about relationships and character growth, which is what I was really interested in.

Getting wrapped up into characters I love permeates my loud thoughts and allows me to be a part of what feels like an experience. It took some time until that same friend I went to the bookstore with recommended A Court of Thorns and Roses to me and now I’m eyeball deep in romantasy. Romance is more than boy meets girl and they fall in love. There are real life obstacles such as grief, depression, mental illness, or in the case of fantasy- dragons! After shedding prior labels and expectations, I now fully embrace my love of romance, regency, tea parties, and fantasy worlds and am all the happier for it.