For a long time, my life looked impressive from the outside.

The milestones were there. The titles. The photos. The checkmarks. And still, somewhere along the way, I felt myself disappear inside a version of life that no longer fit.

Alive Again was born in that in-between space. The space after the breaking and before the becoming. Explorer Enthusiast isn’t about travel, though I love the road. It isn’t about starting over, though I’ve done that too. It’s about learning how to listen to yourself again when the map you were handed no longer makes sense.

I’m a mom of two. A business owner. An athlete at heart. A woman who has rebuilt her life brick by brick after loss, burnout, and a season that asked me to choose myself without certainty or applause. I’ve learned that freedom doesn’t arrive all at once. It comes in small, brave decisions. In boundaries. In stillness. In choosing calm over chaos and truth over performance.

Explorer Enthusiast exists for women who feel that quiet nudge inside. The one that says, there’s more for me than this even if you can’t yet explain what “more” looks like. This book isn’t a destination. It’s a checkpoint.

If you’re here, it means you’re already on the path. You don’t need to have it figured out. You just need to keep going, one honest step at a time.

Welcome back to yourself. You were never lost.