I was born in Madrid Spain—my father was in the Air Force. We moved back to the states when I was three, to San Bernardino. I grew up right down the street from St. Bernadine’s hospital. My mother had five children from…

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” –John Lennon And so it was, deep in addiction and denial, one warm fall day of 2011, I walked through the door of God’s Women’s Ranch, Phelan (at that time known as…