October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Kristen Helmstetter is the author of Coffee Self-Talk, which recently made it onto the UK’s Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller list for non-fiction. She blogs and writes books on topics ranging from food, to travel and self-help, as well as, romance novels under the pen name, Brisa Starr.

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She and her family have been traveling the world for the past three years, but during COVID, she has mostly stayed locked down, splitting her time between Arizona and a small, medieval hilltop town in Italy.