Hello, my friends! I completely forgot that this newsletter was supposed to go out last week. I'm moving, and my brain looks a bit like my home: a hot mess express, full of clutter and disorganization.

So, I'm sending it today, and you'll hear from me next week too.

This week has afforded me opportunities for perspective shifts, something we can all use from time to time. To be completely authentic, I've been in therapy for the past few months for PTSD that I let fester and sit undiagnosed for a very long time. It's been a hard process, and I almost gave up last month. But friends and family encouraged me to keep going, and it's beginning to be worth it.

These past two sessions, I finally began to feel what my therapist and I keep calling "unstuck." But with all that "unsticking" comes a lot of questions and mental energy spent sorting through memories and beliefs and packaging them up differently than I did before so I can move forward as a healthier person.

A healthier person that I hope will have more mental energy to be creative again and write lots and lots of stories.

I'm thankful for a Savior who doesn't leave us in our broken state but keeps pressing us on to live more fully in His grace and truth. I'm also thankful for His abundance of grace and love for me.

Guest Author Spotlight

Shelly E. Powell's regency romance and continuation of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice...

SHADES OF PEMBERLEY

Six years after the death of George Wickham, Lydia is once again determined to catch a husband, but when her oldest daughter, Kelsey, realizes her mother is resorting to her usual, shameless tactics, Kelsey is determined to put an end to the pattern. Yet, stopping her mother seems impossible. Perhaps the only way to save the infamous Lydia Wickham from her own impropriety and spare her family from ruin is to distract her with what she craves most: the attention of a fine gentleman. But when fine gentlemen are scarce, what can Kelsey do but make one up? Unfortunately, the only person willing to help her is the handsome but swaggering Nathaniel Worth, a man with all the telltale signs of trouble. As Kelsey reluctantly confides in Nathaniel and pulls him into her schemes, she can't help but notice his kindness, charm, and incredibly dark eyes, but she'll never admit she's in love. Despite her best efforts, all Kelsey has done is proven to herself she is much more of a Wickham than she ever wanted to be. How can she give her heart to another when she cannot trust herself?

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See you next week!

Love,

Audrey

"But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine."

Isaiah 43:1