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What's My Book About?
People are asking ask me what my book will be about. So here is an inside peak.
The simplest answer? It's about Cerebral Palsy.
The real answer? It's about being human.
It's about growing up in a Russian orphanage wondering if anyone would ever choose a little girl with shaky hands and a disability. It's about being adopted by parents who saw a daughter before they saw a diagnosis.
It's about spending years in casts, braces, therapy appointments, and doctor's offices while simultaneously figuring out how to be a kid. It's about learning very early that when life gets uncomfortable, humor can sometimes be the best survival skill you have.
It's about answering endless questions from strangers, classmates, police officers, coworkers, and even well-meaning friends. Sometimes those conversations were frustrating. Sometimes they were educational. And sometimes they were so absurd they became stories worth telling years later.
It's about being underestimated.
And then doing it anyway.
The book follows my journey living with mixed Cerebral Palsy, but it isn't a medical book. It isn't a guide to treatment plans or therapy protocols. It's a collection of real-life moments that reveal what happens when disability collides with everyday life: golf courses, classrooms, job interviews, motherhood, marriage, public speaking stages, grocery stores, and even traffic stops.
You'll read about the treatments that worked, the ones that didn't, and the day I essentially decided my leg braces and I were not going to have a long-term relationship.
You'll meet the little girl who learned to use humor as a shield, the teenager who wanted desperately to fit in, the young woman who worried no one would hire her, marry her, or believe in her, and the adult who eventually discovered that confidence isn't something you're given. It's something you build.
Most importantly, you'll see how Cerebral Palsy became neither a tragedy nor a superpower. It simply became one part of a much larger story.
A story about resilience.
A story about family.
A story about motherhood.
A story about finding purpose in the very thing that once made you feel different.
If there's one message I hope readers take away, it's this:
You are never defined by the challenges you face. You are defined by what you choose to do next.
For me, that choice has always been the same:
Keep moving. Keep laughing. Keep showing up.
And when someone tells you what you can't do?
Simply smile and say, "Watch me."
