Lost in our mission to save our partners, we, the sober partners, often don’t see what is happening to our own mental health.

Logic should work. Pleading should work. But it doesn’t in addiction. The tools we have as loved ones of addicts are the tools we use in all of our life, logic. But the disease has none. I write about what that experience was like for me

Sometime leaving a relationship, even a longterm marriage, is the proper path forward for our emotional health. It is a question loved ones of addicts struggle with. When is it too bad to stay?

Healing from loving an addict. I speak with Allison Anderson, MD about my experience of pain and a my path to emotional health. It’s the conversation that more loved ones of addicts need to have.

Let’s talk narcissism. I speak with Kristen Carney of The Wind Girl Method and What Women Want podcasts. Narcissistic tendencies are often part of addiction. We speak about what to watch out for.

As the loved-one of an addict, silence became my loyalty pledge. Here is a short excerpt from my upcoming memior, Where the Shadows Dance.

Reflecting on Dry January. Is it a moment in time or part of a deeper lifestyle change?

I speak with John Ramsey of Wave TV in Louisiville, KY about being the caretaker of a high-functioning alcoholic and my upcoming memoir.

I spoke with USA Wire about the challenges loved ones of alcoholics face, often feeingl discarded in the necessary focus on the addict and the importance of understanding that we have emotional scars too.

Join me in converstation with Mel Greenberg of Uncorked Live. We talk about writing process, writing fiction, how real life overlaps even in a made up world, and writing about tough, true things. Take a listen!

I had the opportunity to speak with the super-smart Richelle Fredson, host of the bound + determined podcast, and book proposal coach extroidinare. We talked about writing, my upcoming memoir, vulnerability, and writing through the toughest stuff even when you’re scared to death. If you listen close, you’ll hear my voice get soft and start to quaver when we approached the subject matter I’m wrting about.

The Chicago Writers Association has honored my latest novel, Tell Me a Lie, as a finalist for Book of the Year. While helping out her sister, with a real estate issue, Andrea discovers the body of a young woman. Who is she and why did she die here alone? Haunted by the lonely death, Andrea pushes to discover the real cause of the young woman’s demise.

Recently got a lovely review for my latest release, Tell Me a Lie, from Windy City Reviews.

A couple choice quotes:

Tell Me a Lie is a book for readers who skip the fluff and jump into the masterful pacing of critical information and the exhilaration of solving the crime with the detective–not ahead of her or behind her.

Killion has built a detective that is as pragmatic, persistent, and persevering as this city.

Once you get on Killion’s rollercoaster, it is impossible to get off.

I’m blushing…