05/22/2026
“How are you so patient with kids when you don’t have any of your own?”
People ask me this all the time. The honest answer isn’t what they expect.
When I was 12, my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma (brain cancer). They gave her 3 months. Maybe 5 years at best.
She lived 16 years longer than anyone predicted.
16 fiercely fought years I was never supposed to have with her. Years that showed me what true resilience looks like. What love sounds like in the silence of a hospital room at 2am when hope is all you have left to hold onto.
Those years changed me forever. They taught me how often women and children struggle to be fully heard in healthcare. Not because people don’t care, but because systems become rushed, clinical, and disconnected from the human being behind the chart.
Safe Haven was born from that experience.🌿
A place where families are never rushed through. Where parents are listened to, respected, and reminded that they matter just as much as any diagnosis or symptom.
You’ll always hear me encourage moms and dads to trust themselves and advocate fiercely for their children. To ask questions. To speak up. To follow their instincts even when they feel intimidated to do so. 💛
Because your concerns deserve to be taken seriously.
So when people ask why I do this work, I think of her.
And everything she taught me without ever needing to say a word.
To show up for people.
To listen deeply.
To care fully.
To do right by people. Always. 🤍
