What was it about this image that’s both seductive and captivating, all at the same time?
At 21 years old, I couldn’t explain what drew me in.
But I can now.
This week I launched Chasing the Carat—a deeply personal story that starts with a song I once loved but never truly understood: Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer.
Back then, I sang every word without grasping what the lyrics meant.
I had just married my first love—the only boyfriend I’d ever known—because we got pregnant and too naive to see it then, I was already knee-deep in a pattern of codependency, chasing something I couldn’t yet name.
Approval. Security. Love. A better life. And like the women in that video—glossed over, painted on, programmed to perform—I played the part.
This story will unfold week by week, through a series of snapshots from an eight-year relationship that took me across the globe, up to the top of the Eiffel Tower… and straight into a breakdown I never saw coming.
What I thought was the beginning turned out to be the end.
And the start of something far more honest.
To read along, please click on the MY STORY tab to follow along and I truly hope my story meets you in yours.