Nonfiction

At its heart, The Words We Choose is an invitation to curiosity rather than correction. It offers practical reflection prompts and gentle practices that encourage awareness instead of judgment. 

The Words We Choose reminds readers that language is not just descriptive—it is relational. By choosing words with greater care and intention, we can foster deeper understanding, empathy, and connection—with horses, with others, and within ourselves.

Drawing on insights from psychology and neuroscience, it explains how word choices activate different patterns of thought and emotional response, affecting how safe, open, and connected we feel in relationships. 

The Coyote at the Door is not a memoir shaped in hindsight, but a living document written in real time, in the hours when sleep would not come. After Wes’s death, the central ethical question for me was not how to improve the writing, but how to preserve his voice without imposing order, explanation, or redemption where none had been claimed.

This book exists because Wes wanted his story to be told and because his wife believed it mattered. My hope is that this work honors Wes by allowing readers to hear him as he was—unfiltered, searching, and fiercely alive—and that it offers others, especially those who carry our invisible wounds, the recognition that they are not alone.