Why I Built This Website

I built this site because I needed something like it, and it did not exist. When I was at my lowest point, trying to understand my rights while barely holding things together, there was nothing out there that spoke to me like a real person. I went to law school at the University of Michigan, and even with that background, the laws were hard to navigate. Just legal jargon, paywalls, and dead ends. So I built what I wish I had found.

I was abused as a kid. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse. I spent most of my adult life drinking to keep that door shut. It worked for a while, the way bad solutions do. I did not deal with any of it. I just kept moving.

At 40, I got sober and the door came off the hinges. All the trauma I had been outrunning for decades was suddenly right in front of me. Facing childhood abuse as an adult, for the first time, with no substances to hide behind, was the hardest thing I have ever done. Healing was not linear. It was brutal, slow, and necessary.

I needed time away from work to focus on treatment, so I took FMLA leave. I thought the law had my back. I thought taking protected leave meant I could actually focus on getting better without worrying about my job.

That is not what happened. My employer contacted me during leave, made demands, and treated me like a problem to manage instead of a person going through something. I was pushed to the margins. Then I was fired while still on FMLA leave.

I tried to get legal help. Attorney after attorney dismissed me. When your FMLA claim involves mental health, addiction, or childhood trauma, a lot of lawyers do not take you seriously. They treat it like it is less real than a broken leg. I heard every version of "that is going to be hard to prove" before anyone actually listened.

That is why this site exists. Every tool here is free. Nothing you enter is stored or tracked. I built it to help you understand your rights, write the letters you need, and connect with therapists and attorneys who actually get it. People who understand that mental health conditions and addiction are real, protected, and worth fighting for.

If you are reading this because you are going through something similar, I want you to hear this: you are not broken. The system is. You have rights, real ones, and this site will help you use them. You should not have to figure this out alone, and now you do not have to.

With care,

James