STAINED GLASS WINDOW
From Shattered Pieces to Light
A deeply personal memoir of childhood trauma, survival, and the long road toward healing.
Some stories are carried for a lifetime before they are finally told.
Stained Glass Window is my story — written in the hope that someone who has ever felt misunderstood, silenced, or alone might find a little light in its pages.
Abuse Doesn’t Have a ZIP Code
Abuse can happen anywhere
—to anyone.
Behind beautiful homes.
In good neighborhoods.
In families that look perfectly
normal from the outside.
I grew up in Manhattan Beach,
California - 90266
Abuse doesn’t have a ZIP Code.
Stained Glass Window is the story of what happened behind one of those doors.
I wrote it for anyone who has ever felt silenced, misunderstood, or alone.
Because what happens behind closed doors should never have to stay there.
I survived it. Now I’m talking about it.
For years, I thought surviving meant staying quiet.
I know now that my voice is part of how I survived.
I spent most of my life believing my story was something to hide.
Now I understand that telling it may be the reason I survived it.
Trauma didn’t make me strong.
I DID.