Aloha! Hawaii is my birthplace and tropical beaches are my favorite places. This land of Paradise is also where I experienced three different sexual assaults before the age of 9.

My body, mind, and spirit were not prepared for the effects of those deep traumas. Relationships suffered, I didn't know who I was nor my purpose, and my body finally gave the outward sign that something was not right. I developed an incurable (so far) auto immune disease which completely knocked me down. --Not in the sense of being sick in bed, but emotionally I was in a very bad…