Hi! I’m Heather, I’m a writer, older sister, aunt, dog owner, and avid follower of Jesus.
Why the name tattooedrevivalist for a website? Revivalist as in I’m fully devoted to God. My life has been a series of wild (mis)adventures and it wasn’t until I ran smack back into God that I found what I was desperately missing. As for the tattooed part, well I have a lot of tattoos and plan on getting more. Tattooed and revivalist just seem to juxtapose themselves, but they actually don’t. I’m fully dedicated to the Living King and most of my tattoos tell the story of before and after meeting Him.
I’m an author and while I’m supposed to be writing, I’m most likely brewing another pot of coffee. The author part is more of a shock for me than it was for most other people. Never in a million years would I have thought that I could start and successfully finish writing one book much less three. And because God is funny that way, I’m now on the journey writing books four and five! As for the books I’ve already written head on over to the book page for links to “Don’t Let the Monsters Out”, “Chains of Freedom”, and “A Funny Thing Happened on My Highway to Hell.”
I also have a blog. Head on over to the Life (Brain) on Fire page and I’ll tell you more about myself throughout the posts but to start I’m a Christian (hopefully that was obvious by the blog’s intent), proud aunt, dog mom, college graduate x2, and author. And I also deal with bipolar 1 (the fun rapid cycling kind), PTSD, adjustment disorder (does anyone really know what that means?), substance abuse disorder, and borderline personality disorder (which I just consider an extension of bipolar it’s a personal preference not a clinical one). If you notice I say “deals” with not “has”; these are not mine, I don’t claim ownership over them and if I ever do in any writing, please feel free to call me out on it. I didn’t go shopping around for these suckers, they entered my life mostly without me knowing. Ok, maybe not the alcoholism but still taking a few drinks didn’t mean I wanted to sign up for a life of addiction.
When I came to Jesus, I came with all these things and I was convinced that
He would just Poof! blast them away. Imagine my shock when He didn’t! But He instead has walked and continues to walk with me through every manic high, black death depression, twitchy startle, or crazy overreaction.
Welcome to the wild ride that is life defined by Jesus with mental illness attempting to takeover at times!