About Me

Author. Nurse. Voice Amplifier. Elvis Enthusiast.

Christina Ditchkofsky is a trauma-informed author, practicing nurse, and the founder of Ditch Key Words, L.L.C., a creative studio for brave storytellers. She gives voice to the stories people are too afraid to tell—and too strong to keep hidden. Through writing, podcasting, and public speaking, Christina is breaking the silence around domestic violence, childhood trauma, and emotional abuse.

Her debut memoir, Burnt Letters, didn’t start as a book—it began as late-night journal entries scribbled in survival mode. What it became is a raw, no-B.S. story of emotional abuse, generational wounds, and what it takes to finally say: enough. This is Book One in a three-part series—a healing journey told in layers, not chapters.

In the earlier chapters of her life, Christina built a career in nursing while raising her children in a small rural town in Pennsylvania. Now based in San Antonio, Texas, she’s completing her degree as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner while continuing to write, coach, and advocate for those still finding their way out of the dark.

Christina writes for the woman still checking the door lock twice. The one asking, “Is this my fault?” The one trying to remember who she was before she had to survive.

Her work is a call to reclaim your voice, rewrite the narrative, and burn down the stories that never belonged to you in the first place.

When she’s not helping authors share their truth or caring for patients at the bedside, you’ll find her walking the Greenway trails with her three rescue dogs—Willow, Hank, and Larry—sipping black coffee in vintage boots, and passionately defending why Elvis still matters.

Because healing is serious work—but your voice doesn’t have to whisper.