For the unbelieving believer ready to write a different story with me, for our children.

What if the story you inherited wasn't the one you were meant to pass on?

The Gospel of Rose is a religious trauma memoir about leaving the leaving — because the longer journey leads back into the body.

Told through the voice of Mother Rose, the book follows a woman shaped by high-control theology as she learns to listen again to sensation, desire, and the intelligence of her own body. Years of spiritual discipline demanded silence, obedience, and disappearance. What emerges is not a new belief system, but a lived remembering. Trust returns after shame. Relationship returns after fracture. What we heal in ourselves, we don't pass on.

Most religious trauma memoirs tell the story of leaving. The Gospel of Rose tells the story of what comes after — how to be in a body again, how to trust it, what becomes possible when it's finally allowed to tell the truth.