Being Coleen - Paperback

Heaton, Coleen Gantt: - Coleen Gantt Heaton is a writer, nonprofit leader, and fierce advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her journey began in a special education classroom in 1993 and has grown into a life devoted to creating spaces where everyone belongs. In 2014, she founded No Limitations, a Central Texas nonprofit offering adaptive sports and social activities free of charge. What began with a handful of families grew into a thriving community where hundreds found connection, purpose, and joy. Today, as Executive Director of The Arc of McLennan County, she continues the fight for inclusion and acceptance. Her debut book, Being Coleen, is a raw, soul-deep collection of poetry and personal writings tracing her journey through pain, healing, hope, and self-acceptance. It is also a love letter to the people and places that shaped her-especially her grandparents, who raised her on the same land where she now lives and writes, in the shade of a sycamore tree her grandfather planted. Coleen believes in the power of story to heal, to connect, and to inspire change. Whether through her advocacy work, her writing, or the way she moves through her days, she strives to make the world a kinder, more loving place-one act of service, one poem, one person at a time.