Author: SA Smith

SA Smith has always loved the magical life. She is the bestselling Amazon author of FOREVER, her four part young adult paranormal romance series. She is an advocate for women of all shapes and sizes. Believing that we are all enough just as we are, and needing to spread that word far and wide. Having been diagnosed with CRPS over 12 years ago, SA also uses her writing to increase social awareness of the disease. Writing is her passion. She often tells friends that writing is a journey for her. It’s like spending time with friends. "I just follow my characters along on their adventures, like a fly on the wall, and see where they take me." SA currently lives in Florida with her best friend/husband and their one son.

Color The World Orange For CRPS

November 7, 2016September 12, 2018 SA Smith

November is National CRPS Awareness month and November 7th is Color The World Orange Day for CRPS. To help promote awareness, we at Feminine Collective, have turned our logo Orange for the day to increase awareness of CRPS. It’s the least we can do to help spread light on this Read more

CRPS SUCKS!

November 1, 2016October 6, 2018 SA Smith

November is National CRPS Awareness Month, and November 7th 2016 is National Awareness Day. I wanted to share with you a little bit about CRPS and why awareness of this unknown disease is so very important. The problem is, I’m not sure how to go about sharing it with you. Read more

This Mask I Wear

October 26, 2016October 6, 2018 SA Smith

I see the morning light coming through the window. I roll over, not wanting to get up. Not wanting to face another day, just like the last. How do I go on? Why do I go on? Everyone seems to be fine, seems to be moving forward. But I’m not. Read more

Overrun By Assholes

October 15, 2016October 6, 2018 SA Smith

What do you do when you’re a nice person and you are attacked by an asshole? I think most of us are nice by nature. We are willing to put up with others being annoying in public because we are nice. We don’t want to lessen their experience because they Read more

“You Look Okay, How Can You Be Sick?”

September 30, 2016September 13, 2018 SA Smith

In this day and age of social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, personal blogs and even GPS tracking, potential employers are now regularly checking prospective employees’ social media pages before hiring or promoting for a position. With that lurking over our heads, it’s unnerving to come out and tell the world Read more

Because Of This…. (Rape and Invisible Illness)

September 28, 2016September 14, 2018 SA Smith

in·vis·i·ble adjective: unable to be seen; not visible to the eye ill·ness noun: a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind Invisible illness comes in many forms, in many symptoms, and attacks each person differently. It can be a physical or mental illness, or both. There is Read more

“It’s All In Your Head…”

September 15, 2016October 6, 2018 SA Smith

Invisible illness is considered a chronic illness or disease that affects a person to a debilitating degree, only we don’t look sick. One hundred and seventeen million adults in the USA are suffering from Chronic Illness. Ninety-six percent of those have an illness that is invisible, they show no outward signs Read more

Life With An Invisible Illness

August 17, 2016October 6, 2018 SA Smith

in·vis·i·ble adjective: unable to be seen; not visible to the eye ill·ness noun: a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind You might have heard the term around the internet, “Invisible Illness,” or maybe you haven’t. Basically, it’s a person who is very ill, but to the Read more