About melody

I'm a home schooling mother of 8 doing my best to get along with the system and still raise autodidacts. My husband of 27 years is my most treasured friend and resource. 

I have dreamed many and varied dreams of what I wanted to be when I grew up and none of them have come true. But the marvelous thing about the Divine Architect is that He will often allow dreams to be dashed in order to allow the possibility of something better.

My life is that something better. 

Wife, mother, author, chronic illness survivor and thriver, health educator, fitness professional, business owner, aromatherapist, doula, dreamer.

(But not all of those things at once, of course! And, please God, not at the expense of the home.)

I’ve been diagnosed with lupus (SLE), chronic Lyme disease, and a cascade of autoimmune illness, and have pursued a natural course of healing for the last decade. What I have discovered is that the remedy to the plague of chronic illness (individually and as a society) is becoming properly ordered to the will of Christ by rightly observing the principles of subsidiarity and natural law. This demands a humble vigilance over the smallest elements of our lives, down to our very DNA…

And I started writing about it.

The Sunshine Principle: A Radically Simple Guide to Natural Catholic healing is my first book, released in 2020 and the recipient of praise across the Catholic world for its balanced—yet passionate—contribution to healing the broken hearts, minds, and bodies of God’s people.

I have been writing and speaking for almost 20 years about homeschooling, Christian womanhood, culture, healing, and the spiritual life. I’ve had my work published online for organizations such as Crisis Magazine, Catholic Exchange, TAN Books, LifeSiteNews, Horizons Magazine, and in multiple book compilations. I currently write at my newsletter, The Wild Return.

Welcome, friend... I invite you to join me in exploring God’s design for living a free, faithful, joyful, healthy life!