WELCOME TO HEATHER JOY MEDIA
Stories that heal. Voices that matter. Courage that inspires.
Heather Joy is an author, keynote speaker, healthcare professional, and founder of Stand Tall Sexual Assault Advocacy, dedicated to helping others find hope, healing, and purpose after trauma.
Through powerful storytelling, healthcare expertise, and trauma-informed advocacy, she helps people reclaim their voice, build resilience, and discover hope after life’s most difficult challenges.
WHO IS HEATHER JOY?
A life of healing
Heather Joy is an author, key-note speaker, respiratory therapist, advocate, mom, and grandmother who believes that stories have the power to heal and connect, and change lives.
After spending more than twenty years caring for patients in critical care, trauma, and ECMO, Heather witnessed both extraordinary resilience and unimaginable heartbreak. Her experience at the bedside, combined with her own journey through trauma and recovery, shaped a mission to help others find hope, healing, and purpose. Surviving is the beginning of the journey. Through her books, speaking engagements, and advocacy work, she reminds audiences that even after life’s most difficult chapters, healing is possible.
FEATURED BOOK
The Weight of Air
A Memoir of Trauma, Survival, and the Fight to Breathe Again
The Weight of Air is Heather Joy’s debut memoir of resilience, survival, and self-forgiveness, told through the collision of professional and personal trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a registered respiratory therapist working the front lines in a COVID hotspot, Heather lived inside the relentless pressure of failing lungs, impossible decisions, and the emotional whiplash the public never fully saw.
But there is a kind of suffocation no monitor can measure: the silence after trauma, the shame that lodges in the throat, the way the body remembers what the mind tries to outrun.
A powerful memoir of survival, resilience, healing, reclaiming your voice, and finding the way back to yourself.
SPEAKER. ADVOCATE. STORYTELLER.
Speaking that stays with people
From the ICU to the keynote stage, Heather Joy shares powerful stories of resilience, trauma recovery, mental health and hope. Drawing on more than two decades in healthcare and her own journey through adversity, she delivers presentations that leave audiences informed, inspired and empowered.
Popular speaking topics
Trauma-Informed Communication in Healthcare
The Hidden Crisis in Healthcare
Digital Advocacy
Breaking the Silence
Surviving the Unspeakable
The Weight of Air
Whether speaking to healthcare professionals, leadership teams, nonprofit organizations, or community audiences, Heather combines lived experience, professional expertise, and authentic storytelling to create meaningful conversations that stay with audiences long after the event ends.
Through books, keynote presentations, and digital media, Heather’s mission is simple: to help people find their voice, build resilience, and turn pain into purpose.
At its heart, Heather Joy Media is dedicated to turning pain into purpose and creating meaningful connections through the power of words.
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS
Healing is possible
Because every person carries a story, a struggle, or a battle that others cannot see.
Healing is possible. Strength can return. Your story matters.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Where would you like to begin?
📚 Read the Books
Explore memoirs, children’s books, and upcoming releases.
🎤 Book Heather to Speak
Keynotes, healthcare conferences, healthcare events, advocacy programs, and leadership presentations.
❤️ Support Stand Tall
Supporting survivors through education, advocacy, and community outreach.
📰 Join the Community
Join a community focused on healing, resilience, and turning pain into purpose.
CONNECT WITH HEATHER
Through social media, speaking engagements, advocacy work, and writing, Heather continues to educate, encourage, and inspire a growing community of more than 130,000 followers.
Follow along for new releases, speaking events, advocacy initiatives, and conversations about resilience, healing, and personal transformation.