Stripping Like Nobody's Business

A darkly funny, brutally honest memoir of surviving a sociopathic mother, escaping A Memoir of Childhood Abuse, Family Secrets, and the Fight to Survive a Toxic Mother

shame, and stripping down to the truth.

Stripping Like Nobody’s Business is a true coming-of-age story about growing up in rural isolation with a mother who lacked empathy and a secret that nearly destroyed me. There was no running water, no electricity, no phones—and certainly no love. Just silence, guilt, and survival. This is not your typical stripper memoir. It’s a raw emotional ride with nothing left for the imagination-it often reads like fiction, complete with Jell-O, rape and murder.

I didn’t just grow up off the grid—I grew up carrying the burden of a life-altering secret. One that kept my stepfather from killing my mother, and one I kept hidden for decades. This isn’t your typical stripper memoir. It’s about abuse, resilience, and the strange ways we learn to survive—sometimes by taking off our clothes, sometimes by staying quiet.

If you’ve ever felt trapped by a toxic parent, battled with guilt you didn’t deserve, or longed for healing in the messiest way, this memoir is for you.

Fans of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Running with Scissors will find themselves here—between trauma and triumph, laughter and grief.

You don’t have to strip to find love.
But I did.