As an award-winning author, speaker, and businesswoman, I strive to reflect the heart of Jesus in all I do. My struggle with perinatal and postpartum depression — the story behind A Beautiful War — became the turning point in my story — the moment when God met me in the darkness and began restoring hope.

The woman I am today was shaped not just by hardship, but by the grace and love that surround me daily in my family. I was adopted by my parents at 3 days old and raised on a farm in southwest Louisiana. I married my husband, Jeff, in 2000, and became an instant mom to his two beautiful girls. Over the next 15 years, we welcomed two sweet sons of our own.

My days are spent with my family (all working together in our family-owned business), momming, soaking up the outdoors of our 40-acre home, and reading. It can be argued that I may have an unhealthy obsession with all things Christmas and French bulldogs.