Book release: French edition on May 11 — English edition on September 18, 2026.

We know each other

Survivors always do

About me

I gave until I broke.
I performed until I forgot who I was.
I abandoned myself so no one else would.

That was my pattern. My prison. My life. Running away to the other side of the planet did not change a thing.

After being hit by too many emotional tsunamis, I threw it all in the back of a 4WD and drove across Australia. Actually, I never stopped crossing it.
I was alone. Terrified. Heartbroken.
But free.

Free from the story I’d been telling myself for years: that my worth was in what I gave away.

The Outback stripped me down to the essentials. Layer by layer, until there was nothing left to hide behind.

And when everything was gone, I found the one thing I actually needed to survive, not just in the desert, but at work, in relationships, in life: myself.

Now I share my journey to help women stop self‑abandoning before they lose themselves trying to be enough. I broke the cycle. And you can too.

No need to perform. No one to impress.
Just be you. Raw, untamed, unapologetic.

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