Hello, my name is Paris, I did not come to this work because I had answers. I came because I was drowning, and I could not find anyone who knew how to hold both my faith and my pain at the same time.

I was a homeschooling mother of six, all eleven and under, standing inside an impossible choice. When everything collapsed, the church community I had loved for years did not walk toward me. It walked away.

I know what it is to lose the people you thought would stay. I know what happens when your story no longer fits what others know how to hold.

I began training in this work believing it would make me better at serving others. Somewhere in the middle of it, I discovered I was the one who desperately needed a witness. Eventually someone pulled up a chair and stayed. She did not turn her face away, and she did not rush me, and that one room started to change every other room in my life. This ministry exists because every woman who holds the room deserves a room like that.

I have spent fifteen years walking with women through grief, trauma, and spiritual disorientation. I am a certified trauma-informed mentor and biblical coach through Freedom Movement, trained through ACBC and IBCD with continuing education through the Allender Center, and I am currently completing my spiritual direction practicum through Soul Shepherding. I will always tell you exactly where I am in my own formation, because a ministry built on honesty should begin with mine. I serve as a chaplain with Juvenile Justice Outreach, and I am still a homeschooling mother of six, which means nothing I teach was learned from a distance.