Roxanne Renee

An ordained minister and certified yoga teacher with a master’s degree in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Roxanne is founder of Live Well Today Café, LLC and co-creator of the nonprofit, Cultivate Resilience. She has spent over 30 years nurturing resilience in community settings, and nine years ago, following her passion to provide compassionate, trauma-sensitive supports for caregiver well-being, Roxanne accepted a position at University Health (UH) in Kansas City, Missouri, an urban core, essential hospital that also serves as the teaching hospital for the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the region's largest community behavioral health center. Roxanne is a Senior Behavioral Health Consultant in the UH Center for Trauma Informed Innovation.

Beyond professional expertise, Roxanne speaks from her own experiences of trauma, severe mental illness, compassion fatigue, burnout, moral anguish, Long COVID, and recovery. In 2010, Roxanne wrote Laughing Again: A Survivor's Guide to Healing Depression to share her story of healing from suicidal depression and key lifestyle practices that have kept her well for over two decades. As a response to the pandemic in 2020, Roxanne launched the Live Well Today Café YouTube channel offering practical support to help individuals sustain well-being in stressful times.