Heather's story

I rebuilt a life. So can you.

Mom. Writer. Speaker. Founder and CEO of the Resurge Music Festival.

Heather is a mom, writer, and host of Pursuing Redemption podcast, and the Founder and CEO of the Resurge Music Festival. She loves the outdoors with her family, travel, and seeing what adventure God will bring next.

She came through domestic violence in her early twenties, and through divorce, cancer, and loss in the years after, and what she found on the far side of all of it became her calling: helping women and men walk out of the hardest seasons of their lives into real freedom.

Her calling is not a brand. It's the life she got back, handed on.
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Her story

What happened, in chapters.

A trail
the long way back
Before, and leaving
Before, and getting out.

In her early twenties Heather was living inside a story many survivors know, and leaving it took divorce, starting over, and more help than anyone expects. That season is one paragraph of her life, not the whole book, but it is why the resources page on this site exists.

The healing
The years of healing.

Healing was not one season and it was not quick. It was counseling, scripture, honest friends, and a faith that got deeper the longer she stayed in it. This is the part of the story she says almost nobody describes accurately.

The rebuilding
Cancer, and rebuilding again.

Cancer and loss each asked her to rebuild from further down. Each one ended up inside the books she would later write, and each one is why she can say the life on the other side is real without it sounding like a slogan.

The life now
Family, and the life now.

The outdoors with her family, travel, and whatever adventure comes next. She wrote it down as it came: Deeply Wounded Hope, and the books that followed for the hard chapters and the sleepless hours.

The work
The work she does with it.

Now she hosts Pursuing Redemption, heard in 129 countries, speaks to rooms she used to need, and leads Restoring Ministries, the nonprofit that carries the podcast, the books, the free resources, and gatherings like Resurge.

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to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
Isaiah 61:3