The author had three children by the time she was 21 years old, and currently the grandmother of four. She went to nursing school to become a licensed practical nurse, from 1985 to 1986. Prior to graduation, she was already hired on the medical and surgical ward for about thirteen months, but not the profession of nursing that she is inquisitive about. So she began to work at a nursing home which nearly broke her heart, because she felt so much sorrow of seeing some of the elder people left alone. This only lasted about three months before she started to pursue other avenues in the medical professional field. After time had begun to pass by, she felt the need to give up the profession until she landed her career in one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals on the west coast, and began working as a psychiatric nurse from 1987 to 2001. The author has worked on the ward during the time of the 6.8 earthquake, which shook the west coast as well. In May 2001, she had suffered back problems which brought her to a difficult time that placed the doctor to inform her, that if she continues and something happens, she may be paralyzed and never walk again. Eventually, in 2002, she found another job; an outpatient position, and learned to love this new territorial field in the medical profession. On June 15^th, 2007, a tragedy has struck; on her way to work she had an accident. She soon developed “PTSD” Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and major depression. In the months of September and October of that very same year, she was hospitalized for suicidal attempts, which brought upon her the beginning salvation of writing. Every day she had to endure the suffering; the symptoms of mental illness, and no longer could she perform the nursing abilities that she had acquired, but to face the reality of coping and adapting to becoming the patient instead. While adapting to this change, she can only thank God for her family’s support and her mental stability in which she is compelled to write in order to convey to others of the pain she now must release through a series of her books called “Real Life Freedom,” a course and a road that those like her must now face.      

Graduating High School with one child, and obtaining a graduation diplomacy from nursing school in 1986.

The author feels that her book series "Real Life Freedom" will help families, friends, the public, healthcare workers, and mental health workers better understand the conditions of mental illness through one that is now compelled to partake the aspects of both sides. Her insight can provide a healing process through the written poetic ability in which she now writes.