Mom of three, wife to a veteran, book-writing chaos coordinator, and professional plate-spinner based in sweet, sunny South Carolina. Amanda runs a full counseling practice out of Allen, Texas — from her laptop, in her kitchen, usually with a chicken clucking outside and a cat napping on her keyboard.
Then her daughter — bright, sensory, beautifully neurodivergent — had a day that stopped everything. Fixated on a single color. Big feelings. A meltdown. Amanda sat there thinking, "I'm the only one struggling with this. I feel so alone." Then she snapped back and realized — if she felt that way, so many other parents and kids did too.
She wrote. And wrote. And wrote some more. Three stories in twenty-four hours. One inspired by her neurodivergent daughter; the other two by kids without a diagnosis but with the same big, brave hearts. From that night on, Amanda decided to spend her words advocating for kids and the parents loving them through.
"I wrote what I wished someone had handed me."