Meet Your Support Team

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My story begins at age four, when emotional, verbal, mental, and physical abuse became my daily reality. My brother, caught in addiction, was my first abuser. My mother responded to my emotional pain with cruelty and shame. And at sixteen, losing my mom to cancer left me grieving in silence with no support.

Those early experiences shaped my entire adult life. I survived a chaotic 25-year marriage, followed by a second marriage to a narcissist. I lived in survival mode, over-functioning and over-giving, believing the deep lie that I was unlovable.

My healing began the day I started questioning those lies.

In the early 2000s, I co-facilitated a women’s healing workshop that opened my eyes to the power of healing in community. That experience planted the seed that became the Women’s Healing Journey Workshop—a space designed for women to finally feel seen, supported, and safe enough to heal.

I later created the Women’s Healing Community, a place where the sisterhood and support continue long after the Workshop ends.

Today, my purpose is simple: to help other women heal sooner than I did, find peace faster, and know without question that they are not alone.

Healing is possible.
And you deserve every ounce of it. 

Dana S. Diaz studied journalism and psychology at DePaul University. While there’s no better teacher than life experience and Dana has had life-long experiences with narcissistic abuse, her education did give her the ability to accurately verbalize and express how narcissistic abuse creates confusion and conflict within victims.

Today, Dana is a proud voice for fellow victims who are unable, afraid, or ashamed to share their experiences. She strives to create awareness and understanding to ensure victims are given the support they need to first understand their situation and then begin the healing process. Her first book, chronicling her own abusive marriage that lasted nearly three decades, started as a journal that she hid under the couch cushion in the basement.