Presentations that educate, inspire, and challenge
Kim and Susie deliver authentic, engaging talks and equip professionals with practical, trauma-informed skills, rooted in lived experience and multiple pathways to recovery.
Talks that educate, inspire & challenge
Kim and Susie deliver authentic, engaging presentations that challenge audiences to think differently about trauma, recovery, resilience, and hope.
Finding Your Voice After Trauma
Trauma can teach people to stay quiet, minimize their experiences, or believe their stories do not matter. In this presentation, Kimberly shares how she moved from silence and survival to recovery, advocacy, and purpose. Through her lived experience in foster care, addiction, grief, and healing, she helps audiences understand that finding your voice is not about reliving every painful moment. It is about reclaiming your truth, setting boundaries, asking for support, and choosing what comes next.
- ◆Understand why trauma can make speaking up feel unsafe and how compassion can support healing.
- ◆Practical ways to recognize your truth, communicate your needs, and release shame.
- ◆Your story can become a source of strength and purpose.
From Foster Care to Advocacy
Growing up in foster care can leave lasting questions about identity, belonging, trust, and personal worth. In this presentation, Kimberly shares how she moved from surviving childhood trauma and institutional systems to using her lived experience as a voice for change. She explores how healing, recovery, and self-advocacy helped her transform pain into purpose and become an advocate for others whose stories are too often overlooked or misunderstood.
- ◆Participants will understand how personal experience can reveal gaps in systems, services, and community support.
- ◆Audiences will learn how survivors can use their voices in ways that feel safe, purposeful, and aligned with their own healing.
- ◆Participants will leave with a greater awareness of how families, professionals, and organizations can better support people impacted by foster care and trauma.
The Healing Power of Storytelling
Stories help people make sense of what they have survived, recognize that they are not alone, and begin replacing shame with understanding. In this presentation, Kimberly shares how telling her story became part of reclaiming her identity, finding healing, and creating meaningful connections with others. She explores how storytelling can break silence, reduce stigma, and transform lived experience into a source of hope, advocacy, and change.
- ◆Participants will understand how safely naming personal experiences can separate who they are from what happened to them.
- ◆Audiences will learn how honest storytelling helps survivors feel seen while building greater understanding among families, professionals, and communities.
- ◆Participants will discover how lived experience can challenge stigma, influence systems, and give others permission to speak and seek support.
Faith Through Life’s Hardest Seasons
Faith can feel most difficult to hold onto when life brings trauma, grief, addiction, loss, and unanswered questions. In this presentation, Kimberly shares how her understanding of faith was tested, challenged, and ultimately transformed through some of the hardest seasons of her life. Rather than offering simple answers, she speaks honestly about doubt, endurance, recovery, and discovering that faith can remain present even when life does not make sense.
- ◆Participants will understand that questioning, grieving, and struggling do not mean they have failed spiritually.
- ◆Audiences will learn how faith can support honest reflection, emotional healing, and recovery without minimizing trauma or loss.
- ◆Participants will leave with renewed hope that even painful experiences can become part of a meaningful and purpose-filled life.
Hope for Families Impacted by Addiction
Addiction affects more than the person who is struggling. It can create fear, grief, confusion, broken trust, and uncertainty throughout an entire family. In this presentation, Kimberly draws from her lived experience with addiction, loss, and long-term recovery to offer families an honest message of hope. She explores how loved ones can support recovery without losing themselves, release shame and blame, and understand that healing may look different for every person.
- ◆Participants will understand the emotional impact addiction can have on loved ones and why their own healing matters.
- ◆Audiences will learn the importance of healthy boundaries, honest communication, and compassionate support.
- ◆Participants will leave with greater hope, reduced stigma, and a deeper understanding that progress may happen gradually and differently for each person.
Kim and Susie are available for interviews
Care rooted in understanding
Helping organizations understand the impact of trauma while creating environments that promote healing, resilience, and hope.
Trauma-Informed Consulting
Helping organizations understand the impact of trauma while creating environments that promote healing, resilience, and hope.
- ◆Childhood trauma
- ◆Foster care
- ◆Family systems
- ◆Substance use disorders
- ◆Recovery support services
- ◆Trauma-informed organizational practices
Trauma-Informed Care Training
Practical training that helps teams recognize trauma, reduce stigma, and respond with compassion at every point of contact.
- ◆Trauma-Informed Care Training
- ◆Non-Stigmatizing Language Training
- ◆Staff development & professional education
- ◆Recovery Capital & strengths-based practice