Founder Narrative (Professional & Trauma-Informed)
My journey is one of faith, survival, and redemption.
I was born and raised in England and became a mother at 16, to one daughter and later a grandmother to two beautiful granddaughters, roles that have shaped my heart, my resilience, and my purpose. But long before purpose became clear, my life was marked by deep trauma.
From the age of sixteen, I experienced domestic violence that would follow me for years. I also endured sexual abuse by someone I was meant to trust, a doctor, an experience that deeply affected both my body and my sense of safety. At eighteen, I suffered the devastating loss of my second child, a grief that nearly broke me. Over time, the weight of trauma manifested physically, leaving my body in constant pain.
For twelve years, I lived on disability and prescription pain medication. Doctors told me I would eventually be confined to a wheelchair. My body felt like a prison, and my future felt limited. Yet even then, God was not finished with me.
Through faith, perseverance, and a growing understanding of how trauma lives in the body, my life began to change. I learned that healing is not only emotional or spiritual, it is physical as well. God began to teach me how to care for my body, how to listen to it, and how to restore what trauma had stolen. Against all expectations, I became pain-free and drug-free. What once was broken became a testimony.
I never imagined that the very body I once struggled to live in would become the vessel through which I would teach others about healing and self-care. But God has a way of turning pain into purpose.
After moving to the United States, my journey continued, including surviving a serious car accident that nearly took my life. That moment reaffirmed what I already knew: healing the body and mind is not optional, it is essential. Life is fragile, and restoration must be intentional.
Today, I am the Founder of Purple Light Touch Foundation and Val-u-u Heal • Speak • Transform. Through trauma-informed massage, education, mentoring, and empowerment programs, I help women and young girls understand that their trauma does not define them, and that their bodies deserve care, compassion, and healing.
This work is my calling. It is not driven by profit, recognition, or comfort, but by obedience to God and love for women who have been told they will never recover, never succeed, never be whole.
I stand as living proof that with faith, support, and whole-person healing, what was meant to destroy you can become the very thing God uses to heal others.
Women who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, cancer, bullying, eating disorders, or other life-altering trauma often carry more than emotional pain. Trauma lives in the body. When the body has been exposed to prolonged stress, fear, harm, or survival mode, it can lose its natural ability to regulate, rest, and repair.
Over time, this unresolved physical stress may contribute to chronic pain, fatigue, inflammation, nervous system imbalance, and other health challenges. Many women are encouraged to “talk it out” mentally or spiritually, yet are never given the opportunity to address what their body has been holding.
At Purple Light Touch Foundation, we believe healing must be whole-person, mind, body, and spirit.
This is why we offer therapeutic and medical massage alongside mentoring, life skills, and business education. Trauma-informed bodywork can help the body feel safe again, support circulation, release long-held tension, and encourage the nervous system to move out of constant fight-or-flight mode. When the body begins to calm and reconnect, women are often better able to engage in emotional healing, learning, and rebuilding their lives.Our services are not about replacing medical care or therapy. They are about supporting the body’s natural healing capacity and restoring balance where chaos once lived. Physical care, paired with education and empowerment, helps women move forward with greater strength, awareness, and stability.
By addressing healing physically, emotionally, and practically, we help women begin a recovery process that honors their full experience, not just what happened to them, but who they are becoming.
Why Whole-Body Healing Matters
Why This Work Is Personal
This work is deeply personal to me because I know firsthand what it feels like to live in a body that has experienced trauma, and to have no one address what that trauma has done physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Like many women, I carried the effects of sexual assault, domestic violence, and life-altering experiences in my body without ever being shown how to process or release them in a healthy way. There was conversation around survival, faith, and moving forward, but very little guidance on how to help the body heal from what it had endured.
That is why Purple Light Touch Foundation is so close to my heart.
I want women to understand that trauma does not only live in the mind, it lives in the body. And when trauma is never addressed, it can quietly shape how we move, how we feel, and how our bodies function over time. Unresolved trauma should never define who a woman is, nor should it be allowed to make her sick, exhausted, or disconnected from herself.
Our mission is to help women understand the importance of healing fully, not just emotionally or spiritually, but physically as well. Through trauma-informed massage, education, mentoring, and empowerment services, we help women begin a healing process that restores dignity, strength, and wholeness.
Healing is not about reliving the past. It is about reclaiming the body, the voice, and the future. And no woman should have to walk that journey alone.