About The Author
About The Author
Ann Simard
Ann Simard is a woman of deep faith, compassion, and resilience. Based in Southeast Alaska, she lives surrounded by natural beauty that reflects the peace she has found through her journey.
She is a multi-talented creator—author, entrepreneur, photographer, tour guide, and designer—who brings authenticity and vulnerability into everything she does.
Her life has been shaped by challenges, healing, and spiritual transformation. Through her writing, she hopes to inspire others to embrace their own journey, find strength in brokenness, and discover the power of love, faith, and personal growth.
Abused since birth, yearning to be loved and accepted, I find the opposite. My life became one of self sabotage and destruction. I knew God was there and loved me, yet I didn't understand how He could or where He was in all of this. What is love?
I'm torn, knowing I should love myself, yet I hate myself for what happened to me. It was all my fault. Once out of that abusive household where I was raised, I buried my pain in sex, drugs, and alcohol. Abusive people are drawn to me, and the cycle continued.
Most of the world saw me as functioning, the pain hidden in the darkness as I live what looks like a normal life to most people.
At the deepest point of my self destruction, God sends the most obscure healer who teaches me to like, love, and accept myself for the very one I was created to be.
Mission Statement:
She lives in wonder of all that is around her with child-like abandon. She knows she is loved with an everlasting love, that her Papa wants nothing but His best for her, and that her purpose is to take the love that is the Light of the World within her and shine it for all the world to see.