I write, I build, and I refuse to pretend any of it is a wellness journey.
Writer, speaker, and founder of United Spoonies™. I write about chronic illness, the medical system women navigate, and what it takes to build an identity on the other side of diagnosis.
It's not a niche. It's most of us.
An estimated 60 to 70 million women in the United States live with at least one chronic condition. Roughly 50 to 60 million have two or more.
I went looking for what I needed and it wasn't there. Not the research, not the community, not the wellness content — the actual structural tools. They didn't exist. So I built them. United Spoonies™, the book, everything else on this site.
What I'm working on.
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Writing
The Navigation System — the United Spoonies™ book. A structural guide for women navigating chronic illness, built from the methodology and written for readers who don't know the system yet. Manuscript complete. Coming soon.
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Building
United Spoonies™ — a structural methodology for women navigating chronic illness. The participant-facing system is, and will remain, free. unitedspoonies.com
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Speaking & Consulting
I'm available for the right conversations — podcasts, interviews, and the occasional talk. Also open to consulting with organizations building for women with chronic illness. Speaking · Consulting
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Newsletter
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You are not a difficult patient. You are a normal patient in a system that was designed for a different kind of normal.
Ways the writing becomes something you can use.
Writing
Essays, the forthcoming book, and the work I'm willing to put in writing.
Speaking
Available for podcasts, interviews, and the occasional talk.
Consulting
A patient's eyes on what organizations are building in this space.
Products
Guides I've written for the people adjacent to chronic illness.
United Spoonies™ is the methodology I built from nine diagnoses and the recognition that what I needed didn't exist. It is a separate entity with its own home, its own voice, and its own mission: to give women navigating chronic illness structural tools that remain free, forever, to the population they serve.
This site is where I work on everything adjacent to it — writing, speaking, consulting, press. The institution is there. Visit unitedspoonies.com →
