Christina G. Hibbert, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, speaker, and patient advocate with more than twenty-five years of experience in women’s mental health, grief and loss, trauma, motherhood, self-worth, and personal growth. She is the author of four books, including This Is How We Grow and her newest, Reluctant Warrior: A Breast Cancer Memoir & Emotional Survival Guide.

In 2019, at age forty-four, Christina was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer and learned she carried a BRCA1 mutation.

What followed was chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, seventeen surgeries, serious complications, and eventually diagnoses of hEDS, POTS, MCAS, and other chronic illnesses. Living through it all transformed not only her life, but also the way she understood trauma, grief, healing, and what it truly means to survive.

Today, Christina brings both sides of that experience to her work—the psychologist who has spent decades helping others heal and the patient who discovered how different healing feels when you’re the one living it. Through her writing, speaking, advocacy, and clinical work, she is passionate about helping others heal mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually—not just physically—and feel less alone in the process.

Christina has received numerous honors for her work in women’s mental health, writing, motherhood, and patient advocacy, including being named Arizona Mother of the Year (2018), winning the 2020 WEGO Health Award for Best in Show: Blog, and receiving the 2026 Invisible Disabilities Association Perseverance Award—an especially meaningful honor after years of learning firsthand what it means to live with illnesses and disabilities others often cannot see.

Christina and her husband, OJ, have been married for thirty-one years and have six children, two daughters-in-law, and one granddaughter. Becoming “Nana” is, according to Christina, her greatest achievement yet.

She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she continues to write, speak, advocate, and learn what it means to live fully in a body—and a life—that have been forever changed.