Sarah Elizabeth lives in Rhode Island with her two children, Lexi and Joey. An accountant and CPA by trade, her life took a series of twists and turns after her son’s health struggles in 2016 and her subsequent divorce in 2017. She has found that her true calling is learning to see life’s obstacles through a lens of blessing and gratitude. She is passionate about creating a space that is safe for others to open up in their vulnerability.
Through the power of pen and paper, she began to review her life’s experience with a sense of humility, gratitude, and grace. What started as a way of personal healing and reconciliation has become a motivating belief that there is power in the ability to self-review and self-accept that will have a lasting impact on a wide variety of audiences. As a mother, a mother of a child with autism, a single mother, a woman, and a self-made professional, this journey from external expectations and demands to understanding herself and seeing others in their rawest essence will resonate with a diverse population who are also trying to find their way in this world. Through sharing her lessons on life and unconditional love and acceptance, her perspective has the ability to transcend our everyday existence, whether that be at work or at home, with strangers or within our closest social groups.
Her first book, When the White Picket Fence Is No Longer Enough, Sarah opens the door for unguarded conversations about life’s ugliest encounters—and the most beautiful ones. Taking off the masks of who the author thought she was supposed to be, others will be invited and supported in doing the same. In her interactions on her social media sites, she has found this to be painfully and heartwarmingly true. Unguarding themselves as women, as mothers, as struggling humans, women have the power to learn to connect with others at their most primal and basic level—unconditional love—and that is exactly what this book will do for its readers and followers.