Ms. woman tennessee united states 2025

I was born and raised in Central Texas. For the most part, up until I was about 10 years old, my life was pretty happy. I lived with both my parents and my younger brother, played sports, competed in beauty pageants (I wanted to be Miss Texas and Miss America), was involved in Girl Scouts and had plenty of friends. When I was 10 years old, I began being molested by an older cousin and as a result of that, I developed Trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder. The disorder started with my eyelashes, then went to my eyebrows, before impacting my very, at the time, thick hair. I began pulling around 10 but wasn't diagnosed until I was around 13. There was a lot of trauma as a result of my hairpulling, but I learned to live with it...or rather, hide it. 

After graduating high school, I lost my first love to suicide and during my first semester of college, I was drugged, raped and stalked after a night out with friends. As if the events up to this point weren't traumatic enough, I ended up in a string of unhealthy and toxic relationships, culminating with a long-term relationship with a narcissist and surviving narcissistic abuse. 

I had always wondered why God had done these things to me. I prayed for him to take away my Trichotillomania. I prayed for these relationships to work out. If I'm honest, I was angry and frustrated at God and wondering what I had done so wrong that He was punishing me. It wasn't until I moved to Tennessee in August of 2022, that I realized that my battle hasn't always been in the physical. Yes, I had experienced physical hurts and pain, but the battle wasn't with those who had hurt me or even with myself, it was with the enemy, and it had been since I was a child. I had done a lot of self-work, especially being a therapist, to move beyond my trauma and better myself. However, some patterns just kept sticking and I didn't understand why I couldn't change them. I had broken through some spiritual warfare when I ended the relationship in which I experienced narcissistic abuse. I was having a hard time leaving this relationship, which culminated with a month-long migraine that included absence seizures before I rededicated my life to Christ one night in my bathtub after watching an Elevation Church service on YouTube and going no contact immediately after that.

It wasn't until I attended an Instead of Shame small group at my church that I finally understood what had happened, why I still had some of these responses and why there seemed to be a negative pattern of relationships in my life. The problem was that I had a heart bondage, and the truth was, until I was free from that heart bondage, all the work in the world in the physical wasn't going to change what was happening in the spiritual. That's when I joined the Freedom Class and everything began to change. By committing my life (past, present and future) to the Lord and learning how to put on the full armor of God, I gained my full freedom. 

My goal in sharing my story, is that God has used my pain for a purpose. Through the pain of Trichotillomania, I published the first children's book ever written on the subject in 2018 and that book earned me the The InspireU Network's "Children's Author of 2023" award. I have used what I learned about myself through my broken relationships, one of them being that I was codependent, to help my clients (both male and female) overcome codependency. I help clients get out of abusive relationships, begin to set boundaries and learn to love themselves. I am able to do this in a way that someone who hasn't lived through these events never can. I shared my personal testimony of receiving emotional and spiritual freedom in the Best-Selling, "Reigning Resilient Queens: You are not Alone". And now, I want to share with others, the hope that they too can overcome their pain and that God can and will give their pain purpose. What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it for the good. We are all God's children, and He loves each and every one of us. He will work all things for our good and give our pain a purpose. 

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 

In 2024 after winning 2nd runner-up at Miss Tennessee for America, with My Pain His Purpose as my platform, I founded My Pain His Purpose Ministries (www.mypainhispurpose.org). After competing again in 2025 and placing 1st runner-up at Miss Tennessee for America, with My Pain His Purpose once again my platform, I was afforded the opportunity to represent the great state of Tennessee by The United States pageant system. After learning of my placement at Miss Tennessee for America and learning of my platform, the national office offered me the opportunity to represent Tennessee as Ms. Woman Tennessee United States 2025 at the Ms. Woman United States Pageant being held in November in Vegas. It is an honor to hold this title, as I won the crown for Ms. Woman Colorado United States in 2017. It's an honor and privilege to represent the great state of Tennessee in the system and to add advocating for more affordable and accessible mental health services for our youth to my platform. Tennessee is currently ranked in the Top 10 worst states in the US for youth mental health with suicide being the second leading cause of death in Tennessee youth ages 10-17, as well as nationally. It is my belief that more affordable and accessible mental health services for our youth, will help decrease suicide rates, gang involvement, drug use, criminal behavior, teen pregnancy and abortion, high school dropout rates and so much more. 

If you would like to help support me on this journey, I am seeking sponsors for the following:

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