Long before Take A Breath™ had a name, I was living the reason for it.

I raised three children on my own while working full time, attending college at night, and later building and running my own company. Along the way, I lived through the death of a spouse, two divorces, and seasons when there truly were not two nickels to rub together.

For many years, there was no time to stop and make sense of everything I had been through. I did what women often do when people depend on them: I kept going. I solved the next problem, carried the next responsibility, and found a way forward even when I could not see very far ahead.

When my children were grown and building lives of their own, I finally had room to look back—and an opportunity to use what life had taught me.

I began teaching life-skills classes to women and mothers experiencing homelessness. As I listened to their stories and shared what experience had taught me, I realized that the hardest parts of my own life had left me with something worth giving.

Not perfect answers. Not a promise that change would be easy. But honest encouragement, practical guidance, and the steady reminder that a woman can begin again without having the entire road figured out.

That is where Take A Breath™ Publishing began.

Not with a business plan, but with a life already lived—and a message I knew was no longer mine to keep:

You do not have to have it all figured out.
You just have to take the next step.