About Freda Jean

I'm not going to give you the polished version of my story. You deserve the real one.

I'm a United States Military Veteran, a wife, a mother, and a survivor. I've lived through childhood sexual trauma, military sexual trauma, and emotional abuse. I deal with mental illness diagnoses that have shaped my life in ways I'm still figuring out. I've had seasons where clothes piled up around me and showers felt impossible. Seasons where just making it to the next day was enough.

I'm on my third marriage. I've learned a lot about love, boundaries, self-worth, and what it means to keep choosing yourself even when it's hard. I've had moments in my life where I genuinely thought I wasn't going to make it out alive. Those experiences changed me. But they don't define my everyday and they don't define me.

I'm an introvert and I work from home because leaving the house is genuinely hard for me. Triggers are real. I've dealt with harassment from men my whole life, on the street, on the job, everywhere. At some point staying home and building something on my own terms became the safest and most freeing choice I ever made.

And in the middle of all of that, I found things that helped me keep going. Journaling. Cooking. Baking sourdough bread. Fitness. Gardening. Crafting. I even made my own wedding invites. In my business I get to be creative every single day and that has changed everything. My emotional support animal Gizmo has been part of that too, in the quiet way that animals just show up for you when words aren't enough.

I'm going to be honest with you. Therapy is important and I believe in it. But therapy doesn't follow you into your Tuesday at 2pm when you're having an episode and everything is falling apart. Some days what got me through was screaming into a pillow. Or cursing somebody out in my head. I'm not saying it's the right approach but sometimes you just have to get it out however you can and keep moving. No judgment here.

Honestly, the main reason I'm still here is my kids. They are my world. They gave me purpose when I couldn't find it anywhere else. I'm still learning to fall completely in love with myself. Still working on it. But I'm here.

I wrote SoulBook because I needed it. It came out of my own trauma and triggers and the mental illness that followed. I wanted to create something that could help me process it all, and I figured if I needed it, somebody else probably did too. It hit number 1 New Release in Guided Journals on Amazon and that still doesn't feel real.

BeingFredaJean was built from that same place. Not because I have it all figured out. Not because I'm healed. But because I know what it feels like to be in the thick of it, and I wanted to create a space where people like us could find tools, encouragement, and community.

I'm still in the work. Right alongside you. I'm human just like you.

Welcome.

Freda Jean