Healing In The Southwest

An ode to the American Southwest, Healing In The Southwest is a project that began after I experienced multiple years of immense, earth-shattering loss. This project is the culmination of many years of landscape photography and my writings as I processed all-encompassing deep grief.

In 2019, I began a quest to immerse myself in healing landscapes I felt connected to and rooted in.
I hoped that this would heal me. I prayed it would give me perspective. I needed to rediscover myself.

My physical exertions of this quest matched my mental turmoil and I pushed the limits of what I thought I was capable of. From mountaineering to paddling to extensive solo backcountry travels. Everything was pushed past what I knew my limits to be and over the years, I grew and learned and… healed.
During all of this time, I photographed and wrote; creating art directly from my soul.

And I have put it all together in a book.

With Healing In The Southwest my aim is to share the healing nature of these incredible landscapes of the American Southwest. And to take a deep dive on the journey of grief. To share the way I perceive the world. Maybe this can help someone else on their own grief journey.
Maybe it will just be a beautiful book to flip through.

In 2016 I lost my entire family and the life I once knew. In 2019, I lost two babies to complicated, prolonged miscarriage. The grief I experienced from these years, topped by the pandemic, was incredibly life altering and intense. Since 2019 I have been trying to figure out what Healing In The Southwest would be, because I knew I needed to give this part of my life an outlet. In 2022 my ideas regarding HITS solidified and in 2023 I will be releasing it into the world: a book of images and poetry from my years of going through grief: Healing In The Southwest.