About the Author

Angela works as an Aerospace Engineer in Fort Worth, TX. Zephyr Jackson always at her side.

Raised by a single mother in a small, Indiana, farming community with her three younger siblings, she watched her mother create a home that was greater than scrapping by, and grew to value hard work and tenacity. She believed life was a battle to conquer and a race to win.

In school, she learned that her brain set her apart, but fought the establishment to pursue her two loves: math-n-science and art. In the end, she chose both, earning two separate bachelor’s degrees in art and engineering, and was inducted into Sigma Gamma Tau (ΣΓΤ), the Aerospace Engineering honor society. While completing her engineering degree, Angela woke in the ICU. Her arm paralyzed, and her mother dead.

Police determined she ran the stop sign, and she believed it. She folded herself inward, unable to face either loss. Her body and soul paralyzed by pain and trauma, she strapped her arm to her chest, and fought to survive, when years later she remembered what she already knew: life is not just survival.

For years, she fought to fix her broken body and soul. In physical therapy and surgical suites, she fought for the life she once had. When in one doctor’s office, she finally saw a mind-body connection, and realized life is not a fight or a race.

But it wasn’t until she walked through the doors of a yoga studio did the connection become fully realized. Her daily yoga practice is an exploration into her true self as it is expressed in her body, in community and in relationship with God. She discovers the tools required to walk through pain and trauma.

She splits her time between her love of the outdoors and her passion to build and create with legos and puzzles, rocks and soil, and the written and spoken word.