Words Have the Power
THE BOOKS
Have you ever read something and felt like the author reached right into your chest and named what you've been carrying? That's what books can do. These were written for the moments when you need to know — without a shadow of a doubt — that you are not alone in this.
To Heal.
The right words at the right moment
change everything.
why these books
There is something that happens when you read a story that mirrors your own — when someone else has the courage to put into words exactly what you've been living. The isolation lifts. The shame loosens. You remember that your story is not a burden — it's something that connects you to every other human being who has ever loved someone, lost someone, or had to rebuild from the ground up.
My first book Dancing in the Rain was written in the middle of the hardest season of my life — not from the other side, but from inside it. That's what makes it real. And that's why it might be exactly what you need right now.
"Reading someone else's truth is often how we finally find the words for our own." - Tiffany
the work
Books that
tell the truth.
A story of grief, love and learning to live again.
Dancing in the Rain
Written for anyone who has loved someone deeply and lost them — especially to the kind of loss that doesn't come with a clean narrative. This book holds the story of my brother Cory, the fentanyl crisis that took him, and what we do with love when there's nowhere left for it to go.
This book has been in my soul for a very long time.
Book Two in Progress!
I'm in the early stages of writing my second book and I want you to be part of the journey as it unfolds. The messy middle. The breakthroughs. The moments where it all starts to make sense. That's all happening inside OVARA.
Come join the community — it's free, it's real, and it's where this next chapter is coming to life.
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about the book
For most of my life, I watched my brother Cory disappear into addiction — and I didn't understand it. I loved him and I was frustrated by him and I was terrified of losing him, often all at the same time. What I didn't know was that there were pieces of his story I had never been given. Pieces that would change everything.
Near the end of his life, Cory chose to use his voice. He sat across from me in a therapy room and began to speak the truths he had been carrying alone — the childhood trauma, the pain beneath the addiction, the parts of himself he had never let anyone see. And something happened in that room that I hadn't expected. We found each other again. The way we had been as kids, before everything got so complicated.
In one of his darkest moments, after an overdose that could have ended everything, Cory made a choice. He decided to start dancing in the rain — to find joy in the storm rather than wait for it to pass. He asked me to join him. And I did.
This book is the story of that journey. Of two siblings navigating addiction, grief, generational trauma, and the terrifying vulnerability of finally being honest with each other. Of the love that held on even when everything else was falling apart. And of what it means to grieve someone you were just beginning to truly know.
A book about
Cory.
"Words have the power to crumble someone's foundation - but they also have the power to rebuild it."
- Dancing in the Rain
