Hi, I’m Paige, writer, therapist-in-training, storyteller, and believer in the healing power of words.

Moth-Eaten Sweater is my personal corner of the internet: a place where frayed edges become part of the beauty, where the things we’ve survived — the losses, the detours, the unraveling — are not stains on our lives but proof that we’ve lived.

I’ve spent most of my life in Long Beach, collecting stories like favorite sweaters: worn-in, imperfect, stitched with memories that matter. I write about what it feels like to want so much and fall short, to rebuild, to start again, to dance with joy and grief at the same time. I write about dogs and love and food and faith and fear and the long, complicated road to self-acceptance.

I’m also a narrative therapist, helping others re-author the stories they’ve been handed — especially the ones that say they’re not enough and the ones they’ve for too long believed they should never share.

Here, I try to walk that same path: to unravel the old narratives that keep me stuck and weave new ones with courage and compassion.

If you’ve ever felt like your life should add up to more by now… if you’ve ever wondered whether you’ll ever bloom into the person you thought you’d be… if you’re learning to love the parts of yourself that feel stretched thin and stitched back together, you’re in the right place.

This is a place for second chances, soft landings, and celebrating the threads that hold us together.

Thank you for being here, truly.
Let’s keep writing the story. 💛

Love,

Paige