#Introduction: Howdy. I'm an author who specializes in #deconstructing #cult tactics, #AbuseCulture, healing #ReligiousTrauma, and #Mormonism. My book #RecoveringAgency deconstructs #Mormon manipulation. I #ghostwrite & #edit part-time for a living. Before that, I worked in #IT from 1996-2011.

In 2015 I left my abuser of seven years, and since have been disabled with #PTSD and other chronic conditions, fighting #suicide. I was unable to work at all for five years. My personal narrative now is about recovery out of that #DarkSojourn. I'm usually in some kind of pain, and try not to whine too much about it. I'm #Genderfluid #nonbinary (they/them) of recent transition, #polyamorous, and #bisexual.

My interests are wide and varied and I will not remember them all here. I dabble in #infosec, #fiction writing, #philosophy. DXed with #autism circa 2010. #GenX obsessed with the #90s. I love #music, #psychology, and thinking about #culture.

Updates as I think of things.

It turns out that I'm still a little bitter about all of the people who went home in March 2020 and learned new crafts and how to bake bread and watched movies for three+ months during lockdown.

But instead, I've chosen to work as both a #chaplain and a #minister. I have powered through this without any real vacations at all.

New USDA plant hardiness maps just dropped. My area has moved from a 5b (1990) to a 6a (2012) and 6b over my lifetime.

https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

https://garden.org/nga/zipzone/

#ClimateChange #Gardening

I love H.O.M.E. “Honor, Open, Motivate, & Embrace”

Honor:

“Treat others with honor respecting their dignity.”

Open:

“Be open and strive to offer acceptance, understanding, and support of others.”

Motivate:

“Strive to inspire others to their best and be a guiding light of hope, knowledge, and kindness.”

Embrace:

“Show friendliness, express a value-conscious and not value blindness, demonstrate a heart of compassion and a love for humanity wishing for the universal betterment of the world as well as our fully living a support for human flourishing.”

I created this to inspire others.