{"id":4358,"date":"2023-12-18T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge513.qodeinteractive.com\/?page_id=4358"},"modified":"2025-06-15T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:29:09","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/?page_id=4358","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4358\" class=\"elementor elementor-4358\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8a3bdc e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e8a3bdc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd7f010 e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bd7f010\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02460a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02460a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"qodef-st-title\">ABOUT\u00a0<\/h1><h1 class=\"qodef-st-title\">Debbie Le Roux\u00a0<\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1cf9d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1cf9d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Debbie Le Roux writes to explore the unseen forces that shape identity, love, loss, and renewal. Her work is rooted in a belief that words can make sense of what life unsettles \u2014 offering both anchor points and new horizons.<br \/><br \/>Raised in South Africa and now living in Australia, Debbie draws on landscapes of memory, resilience, and belonging. Her writing often returns to the questions that matter most: how we endure, how we transform, and how we find our way back to ourselves.<br \/><br \/>Debbie is a mother of two adult children who bring her great joy. She holds two master\u2019s degrees, and brings to her work a lifelong passion for learning, art, and the quiet architecture of human experience. Through poetry and prose, she seeks to trace the tender cartographies that connect us \u2014 offering not easy answers, but hard-won grace. This is her first collection.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d585b10 e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d585b10\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6d56a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_image_gallery\" data-id=\"a6d56a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_image_gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"qode-image-gallery\"><div class=\"qode-image-gallery-inner\"><div class=\"qode-image-gallery-slides flexslider_slide flexslider\" data-interval=\"3\"data-flex_fx=\"slide\" data-direction=\"true\" data-drag=\"false\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/home-img-1aaa.png\" \/><\/li><li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/home-img-3aaa.png\" \/><\/li><li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/home-img-3as.png\" \/><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87e91b7 e-flex e-con-boxed parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"87e91b7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16580fa e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"16580fa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f6c8a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2f6c8a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_17479036710700.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5134\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_17479036710700.jpg 622w, https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_17479036710700-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_17479036710700-600x642.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f40e40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"0f40e40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58addb9 e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"58addb9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-122ecc0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"122ecc0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Pilcrow<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43b2a71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43b2a71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It came mid-sentence, a hook of breath,<br \/>inked pause, a pivot in the margin of my life.<br \/>I marked the page, the breath-held hinge<br \/>where the story turned and I stood,<br \/>voice feathered with flint, lifting from marrow into air.<br \/>This was a reckoning etched in the marrow,<br \/>a fault line, long quiet, beginning to hum.<br \/>The insult didn\u2019t wound, it summoned.<br \/>Dignity broke her silence &#8211; a lioness rising,<br \/>determination honed by generations,<br \/>eyes steady on the breach.<br \/>Each breath held the weight of women<br \/>who walked edges no map could name,<br \/>and crossed ruin without fracture.<br \/>I didn\u2019t speak.<\/p><p>I stood and every bone\u00a0bore\u00a0witness.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5021\" src=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-05-30_21-08-01-300x101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-05-30_21-08-01-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/debbieleroux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-05-30_21-08-01.png 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d2a895 e-flex e-con-boxed parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d2a895\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fe7ca3 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"2fe7ca3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ec32cb e-flex e-con-boxed parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9ec32cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f839cb6 e-con-full e-flex parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f839cb6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b632fea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b632fea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">latitude of grace<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-968ace3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"968ace3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-179fe32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"179fe32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Latitude of Grace<\/em>\u00a0charts the quiet forces that shape a life. 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