Wendy Correa
My Pretty Baby
January 8, 2026
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My Pretty Baby is an autopsy of my family. I peeled apart the layers of generational and childhood trauma, family dysfunction, alcoholism, domestic violence, and family secrets and found healing through Buddhism, meditation, nature, hiking, yoga, sobriety, music, psychotherapy, Native American spirituality, and writing. Along the way I had incredible and healing encounters with icons like Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell and Hunter S. Thompson. It is about resilience, recovery, and creating your own chosen family when the one you had is broken.

I quote Brene Brown at the end of My Pretty Baby: “When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.” I realized I had to try to answer my lifelong question: “What happened to my family?” and to then write my own brave new ending. But as I was writing, I realized it wasn’t just my story, it is everyone’s. While writing my book I also read all the latest research on Adverse Childhood Experiences and realized that My Pretty Baby is my call to action for society to talk more openly, honestly and without shame about family dysfunction and ACEs. The world is in pain, and we need to address that pain in order to heal. But when we deny our pain, we deny our healing.

Topics to discuss:

• Adverse Childhood Experiences: the ACE study and the 10 questions.
• How trauma rewires the brain.
• ACEs and childhood trauma as a public health issue and why everyone is affected.
• The body’s role in healing and the modalities we need to heal the body, brain and psyche.
• What healing looks like. How to build resilience and care for c-PTSD and anxiety.
• Fear of writing about families and how to feel the fear and do it anyway. Forgiveness versus reconciliation.
• How I found strength to break free of addiction and the miracle of being arrested.
• Writing memoir to make sense of ourselves and our families and as catharsis and healing.

I hope that readers will take away the message that although trauma is universal, so is healing. Telling the truth about what happened isn’t about blame or retribution-it’s about breaking cycles and healing. Especially if you have children. One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is being a cycle breaker yourself. Healing isn’t just possible, it’s contagious, in the best sense of the word.

Bio
Wendy B. Correa is a writer, yogi, hiker, as well as a licensed massage therapist. She has worked in the film, television, multimedia, and music industries in Los Angeles and later as a radio DJ in Aspen, Colorado. She holds bachelor’s degrees in psychology and theater arts and has contributed articles to Mothering magazine.

A wife and mother, she resides in Denver, Colorado and loves traveling to magical destinations with her family. My Pretty Baby, a #1 Amazon Best seller, is her debut memoir.

For more information, visit www.wendybcorrea.com.